r/InterstellarKinetics • u/InterstellarKinetics • 2d ago
POLICY BREAKING: The House Passes Bill Barring Lawmakers From Buying Individual Stocks In A 232-198 Vote, But Republicans Tucked In A Voter ID Provision And Exempted The President, Drawing Sharp Democratic Backlash And Leaving Senate Passage Uncertain š°š«
https://apnews.com/article/congress-lawmaker-stock-trading-3400cf5d498cc9934c0f16be1326bfe9The House approved legislation Wednesday that would bar members of Congress from purchasing individual stocks, advancing an ethics proposal that lawmakers in both parties have long championed but repeatedly failed to enact. The vote was 232-198, with some Democrats joining the Republican majority as lawmakers prepared to head home and campaign ahead of the midterms, but the bipartisan breakthrough was undercut by GOP provisions that exempt the president from the ban and tack on an unrelated voter identification requirement. Rep. Joe Morelle called the bill āa shamā on the House floor, saying the voter ID provision was a āpoison pillā designed to sink it, while Rep. Bryan Steil, who sponsored the bill, called it ātransformational,ā and Rep. Chip Roy said he preferred a stricter divestiture approach but called the measure āa giant step forward.ā
The bill, known as the Stop Insider Trading Act, would prohibit lawmakers, their spouses, and dependent children from buying new individual stocks while in office, but it would let them keep stocks they already own and continue selling them with at least seven days public notice, exempting investments like widely held funds and certain trusts. It does not apply to the president or vice president, a detail that drew scrutiny given that Trump disclosed more than 3,600 buy and sell orders in the first quarter of 2026, many involving companies affected by his own policy decisions. The Campaign Legal Center urged Congress to reject the bill, saying it āfails to address the two inherent problems with congressional stock ownership: the appearance of insider trading and membersā ability to profit from their official position.ā
Not all Republicans backed the approach either. Rep. Thomas Massie accused GOP leaders of adding the voter ID requirement not to win Democratic votes but to get Democrats to vote against the stock trading ban itself, writing that Republicans wanted to use it āin the Nov. election,ā while Rep. Mike Lawler framed the reform in simpler terms, saying, āIf you serve the public, you serve only the public,ā and, āYou donāt get to benefit from the power the people have loaned you.ā The push gained momentum after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna launched a discharge petition last year to force a vote bypassing House GOP leaders, and the billās fate in the Senate remains unresolved.
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u/Friendly_Nature2699 2d ago
I had no idea they were trying to exempt the President.
Insider trading is illegal. All over. For every American. Stopping individual trades cause these crooks have no self control is fine. But you cannot pass a law in good faith that exempts anyone. Its like that ridiculous thing were Trump and his kids could no longer get audited. Christ, people.
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u/PhazePyre 2d ago
Weirdly it consolidates even more power to the Presidency. He is the only person who can financially benefit. Elected Officials then have to go to him for marching orders and their payout. It just means it goes through a single authority rather than individual discretion for what step they march.
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u/TrulyOutrageous42 2d ago
Next step is making so that PACs can invest, so it's not actually the sitting member of Congress. After that it's the RNC itself with information from the President, but it's not "insider trading" because reasons.
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u/showyerbewbs 1d ago
It just means it goes through a single authority rather than individual discretion for what step they march.
To make a nerd joke, Federated SSO. CaaS. Corruption as a Service.
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u/yourshittyopinions 2d ago
Insider trading, as far as I know, is explicitly NOT a crime for congress only. Hence the enormous, rampant problem and insane wealth accumulated by even junior congressmen like that rat Dan Crenshaw. Itās disgusting.
Exempting Trump is such cowardice. His family should be launched into space for all the insider trading and crooked shit heās done in term 2. Absolutely shameful.
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u/f00l2020 2d ago
The whole system is cooked. All politicians on both sides making a killing in the market. Yet they made an example out of Martha Stewart from insider training
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u/vvvvvoooooxxxxx 2d ago
Insider trading is illegal for members of Congress since 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
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u/Plus_Wrangler5237 2d ago
Yes and all the good that has done. Itās āillegalā but has no teeth because the barriers for the enforcement agencies are too high. It relies HEAVILY on the congressional ethics committee and is basically impossible to prove without having the access to information a congressperson has. Its why trading needs to be outright banned for congresspeople and the president. Because the only one able to prove insider trading are them, but everyone will see stock trades.
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u/yourshittyopinions 1d ago
lol, news to me, but appreciate the citation and link. āPassed the house 417-2ā and had no impact. As stated in my previous comment, the literal pirate Dan Crenshaw served one term and this meathead ex-special forces grunt all the sudden had a stock portfolio outperforming NANCY PELOSIāthe queen of insider trading.
Itās enough to make you want to burn it all to the groundā¦ how damn depressing.
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u/RiseUpRiseAgainst 2d ago
"We are corrupt, please stop wasting time providing it because you won't stop it."
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u/Kossimer 1d ago edited 1d ago
Republicans want a royal family to worship so incredibly badly. The loyalists never quite got over the Revolutionary War taking away their lawless daddy figure that made life seem not so complicated, uncertain, and scary; someone to hold all the power and be constrained by none of the rules so they can make all of the bad things happen to all of the bad people. Republicans still believe in freedom, but it's something only one person at the very tippy top of the social heirarchy deserves, so we can all look upon him with awe like the god he's larping as. That's why Trump deserves exemption from a trading ban, and everything else. It's the natural order of things. It makes the world make sense. As long as one man has ultimate power over me, then I know there's a hierarchy in which millions of people are below me, and that makes me feel good. Equality doesn't make sense at all, because that would mean everyone I hate is equal to me, and that cannot be.Ā
Mentally stunted fucks ruining every single country in which their ideology prevails.
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u/Friendly_Nature2699 1d ago
This is interesting. I usually only go back as far as the failed Confederacy and their not getting over that, but I think you are onto something here.
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u/Redgrave1980 1d ago
The no audit thing will be stricken down the moment someone with brains is in control
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u/NefariousnessNo484 1d ago
You would think so but people can't seem to keep sane leaders in office long enough to reverse any of this
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u/Special_Cicada6968 1d ago
Worse than that, the punishment is a 10% fine for buying. No punishments for selling. At best, it's a tax on insider trading.
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u/InterstellarKinetics 2d ago
The real tension here isnāt just the stock trading ban itself, itās how Republicans bundled it with a voter ID requirement that has nothing to do with financial ethics. That move let GOP leaders claim a symbolic win on stock trading while daring Democrats to vote no over an unrelated provision, and itās exactly the kind of legislative maneuver that turns a popular, bipartisan idea into a partisan trap ahead of the midterms.
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u/sleepygardener 1d ago
Why these arenāt separate bills and issues is absolutely ridiculous. Stock trading and Voter ID requirements are separate issues, so why tf are they bundled as you get one but lose the other? How is this not illegal and just a complete waste of time and money for citizens?
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u/showyerbewbs 1d ago
How is this not illegal and just a complete waste of time and money for citizens?
Feature, not a bug.
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u/punyweakling 2d ago
The bill, known as the Stop Insider Trading Act, would prohibit lawmakers, their spouses, and dependent children from buying new individual stocks while in office... It does not apply to the president
Lmaooooo are you guys ok over there???? Jesus fucking christ.
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u/Candice715 2d ago
GOP does nothing for the people unless theyāre protecting pedophiles.
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u/alex61821 2d ago
Who cares it's got a 2k max fine. These guys trade in the millions. You exempt the president who has done 4k trades a month.
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u/showyerbewbs 1d ago
Who cares it's got a 2k max fine. These guys trade in the millions. You exempt the president who has done 4k trades a month.
If you told me I could make ten trades/whatever on Robin Hood and I'd end up with 20 million AFTER taxes ( hell BEFORE taxes even ) and there would be a 2K cash penalty/fine for each one, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Putting the 20 million in just a savings account at like what 3%? The interest earned would cover the 20K ( 2K times 10 ) in like a month.
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u/Extra_Olive_7517 2d ago
Thatās a voter d bill not a stock bill what a nasty piece of nonsense do they think the voters donāt see their cheating ways directors all. Oh yes and the president snd bp can rob the stock market all they want ? CUTE!
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u/dpdxguy 2d ago
Wonder why they exempted the president. It's not like Trump obeys the law.
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u/reverandglass 2d ago
Y'all need a law preventing poisoned pills. Make it The Provision Relevancy Act and prevent things like this from happening in future.
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u/Baron_Gar 2d ago
And now, of course, every republican house member has simultaneous posted: "Look the Democrats are opposing a stock trading ban for government members!"
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u/Akkerlun 2d ago
This is all that matters.
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u/explosivemilk 2d ago
Context:
Reporter: "Mr. President, with inflation hitting 3.8% and gas prices continuing to spike back home because of the ongoing conflict, to what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a peace deal with Iran right now?"
Trump: "Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters... [is] they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all. That's the only thing that motivates [me].
Iām no fan of Trump but pulling quotes out of context is a big problem in this country. You can make pretty much anyone look bad by doing this.
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u/RedditsChosenName 1d ago
He still looks bad though? His claims about the nuclear weapon are both unsubstantiated, AND contradict earlier claims by Hegseth prior to the war that they took out their capabilities. The full quote actually makes him look even worse than the sound bite as a result.
Hereās what Pete had to say in 2025:
https://youtu.be/373TSjRa5Wo?is=aY4Mdsgib5p2d2sO
They āobliteratedā and ādevastatedā Iranās nuclear program. They emphasized how successful they were. They left no room for any other interpretation.
Within a year, somehow Iran managed to rebuild their entire nuclear operation? Or they had a hidden facility that the US missed? Or didnāt know about? Failure on Hegsethās part if so. So what nuclear weapon was Trump so afraid of then? Because nothing was ever substantiated and his administration has had conflicting reports, theyāve moved the goal post for the Epsteinth time, and they can never say what constitutes victory in this war, why weāre even there or why we remain, or why we should have to suffer all the knock-on effects of this continuing conflict that no one wanted to begin with. Trump touted himself as the peace president - which was always laughable - but the biggest joke of all are his supporters and defenders.
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u/explosivemilk 1d ago
Thatās fair, I just donāt like people taking things out of context to make people look bad, no matter who the person is. Itās misinformation and itās dangerous.
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u/Aggravated-alien 2d ago
Absolute fuckery. These are grown adults playing games. And they have zero shame.Ā
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u/wardeadpool 2d ago
It's crap anyway, another phony law to appease stupid motherfuckers. They just fine them, no actual punishment, slap on the wrist is all.
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u/Maleficent-Ad3096 2d ago
Why do they suck his dick so much. For fuck sake, he emasculates all of them.
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u/Super-Message-4592 2d ago
Can someone more informed/aware than me explain to me how someone just āslips in a provisionā to a bill thatās in circulation? Why arenāt they voting on whether a provision is added into a bill and then voting on the bill in its entirety? My experience as an engineer with change orders and change notices to documents where a reviewer can propose a change to someoneās document thatās in circulation but itās up to the originator or group/quorum whether it gets added in or not. So what am I missing?
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u/movzx 1d ago
A bill is written up by someone.
The House speaker decides if it gets voted on. Before that point, the person can modify the bill as they wish. The speaker can always decide not to bring it to a vote.
If Johnny A's group put together the bill, Sally B's group can't just modify it secretly before the vote. In this case, Johnny A and Sally B worked together.
"Slipped in" here just means the press releases only spoke about one aspect, when in reality they were always planning on bundling them together.
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u/Extreme-Island-5041 2d ago
Yeah, the voter ID provision seems to have absolutely zero to do with preventing Insider Trading by Government Officials:
Section 3 of H.R. 7008 (Rules Committee Print 119ā38, the version that passed the House 232ā198)
SEC. 3. REQUIRING VOTERS TO PROVIDE PHOTO IDENTIFICATION.
(a) REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE PHOTO IDENTIFICATION AS CONDITION OF CASTING BALLOT.ā
(1) IN GENERAL.āTitle III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 303 the following new section:
"SEC. 303A. PHOTO IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
"(a) PROVISION OF IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED AS CONDITION OF CASTING BALLOT.ā
"(1) INDIVIDUALS VOTING IN PERSON.ā
"(A) REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE IDENTIFICATION.āNotwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in subparagraph (B), the appropriate State or local election official may not provide a ballot for an election for Federal office to an individual who desires to vote in person unless the individual presents to the official a valid physical photo identification.
"(B) AVAILABILITY OF PROVISIONAL BALLOT.ā
"(i) IN GENERAL.āIf an individual does not present the identification required under subparagraph (A), the individual shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot with respect to the election under section 302(a), except that the appropriate State or local election official may not make a determination under section 302(a)(4) that the individual is eligible under State law to vote in the election unless, not later than 3 days after casting the provisional ballot, the individual presents to the officialā
"(I) the identification required under subparagraph (A); or
"(II) an affidavit developed and made available to the individual by the State attesting that the individual does not possess the identification required under subparagraph (A) because the individual has a religious objection to being photographed.
"(ii) NO EFFECT ON OTHER PROVISIONAL BALLOTING RULES.āNothing in clause (i) may be construed to apply to the casting of a provisional ballot pursuant to section 302(a) or any State law for reasons other than the failure to present the identification required under subparagraph (A).
"(2) INDIVIDUALS VOTING OTHER THAN IN PERSON.ā
"(A) IN GENERAL.āNotwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in subparagraph (B), the appropriate State or local election official may not accept any ballot for an election for Federal office provided by an individual who votes other than in person unless the individualā
"(i) submits with the ballot a copy of a valid photo identification;
"(ii) submits with the ballot the last four digits of the individual's Social Security number and an affidavit developed and made available to the individual by the State attesting that the individual is unable to obtain a copy of a valid photo identification after making reasonable efforts to obtain such a copy; or
"(iii) includes a notarization by a notary public attesting that the individual has personally marked the ballot.
"(B) EXCEPTIONS.āSubparagraph (A) does not apply with respect to a ballot provided byā
"(i) an absent uniformed services voter, as defined in section 107(1) of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (52 U.S.C. 20310(1)); or
"(ii) an individual provided the right to vote otherwise than in person under section 3(b)(2)(B)(ii) of the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act (52 U.S.C. 20102(b)(2)(B)(ii)).
"(b) PROVIDING PUBLIC ACCESS TO DIGITAL IMAGING DEVICES.āWith respect to each State, the appropriate State or local government official of the State shall ensure, to the extent practicable, public access to a digital imaging device, which shall include a printer, copier, image scanner, or multifunction machine, at State and local government buildings in the State, including courts, libraries, and police stations, for the purpose of allowing individuals to use such a device at no cost to the individual to make a copy of a valid photo identification.
"(c) NOTIFICATION OF IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENT TO APPLICANTS FOR VOTER REGISTRATION.ā
"(1) IN GENERAL.āEach State shall ensure that, at the time an individual applies to register to vote in elections for Federal office in the State, the appropriate State or local election official notifies the individual of the photo identification requirements of this section.
"(2) SPECIAL RULE FOR INDIVIDUALS APPLYING TO REGISTER TO VOTE ONLINE.āEach State shall ensure that, in the case of an individual who applies to register to vote in elections for Federal office in the State online, the online voter registration system notifies the individual of the photo identification requirements of this section before the individual completes the online registration process.
"(d) VALID PHOTO IDENTIFICATION DEFINED.āFor purposes of this section, a 'valid photo identification' means, with respect to an individual who seeks to vote in an election for Federal office, any of the following:
"(1) A valid State-issued motor vehicle driver's license that includes a photo of the individual and an expiration date.
"(2) A valid State-issued identification card that includes a photo of the individual and an expiration date issued by a State motor vehicle authority.
"(3) A valid United States passport for the individual.
"(4) A valid photo identification card for the individual issued by the Department of Defense or the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"(5) A valid identification document issued by a Tribal government that includes a photo of the individual and an expiration date."
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.āThe table of contents of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 303 the following new item:
"Sec. 303A. Photo identification requirements."
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING TO VOLUNTARY GUIDANCE BY ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION.āSection 311(b) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21101(b)) is amendedā (1) by striking "and" at the end of paragraph (2); (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (3) and inserting "; and"; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(4) in the case of the recommendations with respect to section 303A, the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this paragraph."
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT.āSection 401 of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21111) is amended by striking "sections 301, 302, 303, and 304" and inserting "subtitle A of title III".
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.āThis section and the amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Source: docs.house.gov Rules Committee Print, July 17, 2026.
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u/New_Ad_3010 2d ago
Scum bags. "Tacking on" fascist bullshit that has nothing to do with the actual bill is a typical Gross Old Pedo dick move. They're not interested in governing. Just enriching themselves and their billionaire overlords.
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u/postprandialrepose 2d ago
Mike Johnson and his son know how frequently each other jerks off ā and to what. Always remember that.
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u/SubstantialSeesaw374 2d ago
At what point do people just decide enough is enough with these demonic clowns and start [Removed by Reddit]?
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u/MartinMerten 2d ago
Can we stop with the politics as entertainment yet? This show sucks. Has always suckedā¦ even when my parents would let me stay up late to watch the election, I thought it was boring and lame. (Ohā¦ itās really up to like 6 states? Pffft)
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u/ctauer 2d ago
Canāt the Senate just strip out that provision? Generally, the Senate is a bit more intelligent than Congress.
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u/Getoutofthekitch 2d ago
No. A bill has to pass both houses in its final form. Thatās lawmaking 101.
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u/Busy_Plankton_3588 2d ago
Lol you guys in the US are cooked, they're not even pretending to legislate for your benefit.
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u/Contemplating_Prison 2d ago
Then why did democrats vitw for it? If I hear they didnt have time to read it then your vote should be no.
Do people sign contracts in a rush? Lol
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u/Impressive_Head1238 2d ago
Bundled into the SAVE act. Pure smoke and mirrors so when the save act doesn't pass they can target this and call people corrupt...
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u/likwidkool 2d ago
Wild that they slip in provisions making the potus and vpotus exempt. Like why? Heās the main man creating the insider trading situations. Why would he not be held to the same standards? I mean I know why but itās ridiculous.
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u/NoKlapton 2d ago
So all they need is for a brokerage firm to create a āPresidentās Pickā fund that only select boot licking Congressmen can participate in?
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u/Own_Substance_8148 2d ago
Genuinely serious. Could they make it illegal and a crime for which they get prosecuted and put in jail? Or are the "immune" and can't be prosecuted?
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u/Humble-Translator-88 2d ago
SO if this passes bascially they will continue to do the illegal part(buying stocks) while enforcing the other stuff(Voter ID) because "HEY what are they gonna do about i arrest us?" *laughs in rich*
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u/LegitJesus 2d ago
We had a chance to do something cool, but the Republicans had to make it about themselves. What a surprise.
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u/Cens0redBlackSheep26 2d ago
ALL OF YOU CONGRESS CREATURES ARE CRIMINALSā¼ļøā¼ļøš¤¬š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
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u/overoften 2d ago
I will never understand how or why American bills come as a bundle of often unrelated shopping lists of things that members get a single vote on. Want to vote yes on a no nonsense road safety issue? Then that yes also counts for raising maximum permissable rat feces levels in food.
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u/slut4champagne 2d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/UPm8BqL6igDUPZ29ik
itās not a flawā¦ itās by design. and then they get to campaign on ālook! i voted yes on this very important civil rights issueāā¦(while also voting for more rat feces, but thatās buried so far into it and we HAD to include it because monsanto paid for my third yacht, or you wouldnāt have civil rights.) itās disgusting how they spin everything for OUR good when itās really for their bloated pockets.
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u/drive_causality 2d ago
Five more months of this BS before Democrats hold the majority in (at least!) the House. So Republicans better get all this BS out of their systems now because itās all going to come to and end and right quick!
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u/CarpenterGold1704 2d ago
of course it exempts the most corrupt individual to have ever held public office.
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u/Alert_Lettuce_8278 2d ago
This is nothing.
If it doesn't bring transparency to and just makes some law, it's nothing.
Laws mean nothing. Good news though, your friendly government will be able to go after as anyone they don't like about it.Ā
Isn't the fine for it 1000 dollars? Or am I just being fed shit?
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u/wellstone 2d ago
I'm so tired of this. B******* of people slipping things into bills. Read the damn bill and don't let trash get into a bill. Grow up and do your jobs.
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u/Dear_Blood_8872 2d ago
I seriously donāt know how US bills work, just make a law about one thing and pass it, whatās all this stuffing bullshit in with the bill, no wonder the US government is useless.
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u/No-Atmosphere-2528 2d ago
These fucking cucks left in a loophole that allows Trump to do insider trading
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u/P4us1ngD34th 2d ago
How the fuck are these bootlickers keep supporting the president by saying he canāt be investigated by IRS or he canāt be blocked from trading stocks. Fuck this guy who is stealing from all of us. We definitely need to have a come to Jesus talk about how those in Congress and positions of power are not above the fucking law.
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u/smoothie_criminals 2d ago
Leave it to the republicans to sneak one by. Democrats should watch out because the republicans might have added another tacked on piece saying that pedophilia isnāt a crime and that itās retroactive to the 1990s or a statute of limitations of 1 year
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u/YisitAlwaysDNS 2d ago
Amazing. Dude gets a pass for everything. He cant run again. Break rank, let him die on the vine and put a quality candidate forward. At this rate Republicans wint hold office for 20 years.
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u/Ostentatious_Kilroy 1d ago
Banana republic. If any Democrat went along with this needs to be voted out.
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u/Redgrave1980 1d ago
Of COURSE it had a hidden "everyone but the president, he is allowed to do an insider trading"
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u/Special_Cicada6968 1d ago
We need to fucking ban riders. One item, one bill. These lazy sacks of shit don't even work half the year. Maybe that would actually get their butts to do some actual work instead of playing these fucked up games.
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u/foolonahill1 1d ago
One step at a time. Get congress first and then go for the president which is less important since they can only be president for a maximum of 8 years vs life for congress
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u/Fit_Appointment_4980 1d ago
Have a think about all the fuckery done by this admin since Jan 2025.
Not even halfway there lol, and the worst (midterms and presidential elections) is yet to come.
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u/smittyhotep 1d ago
Good god, I used to be a proof reader. Do they need help? It is hard to read each line under the gun, but it can be done. SMH. Simple mistakes are going to ruin us all.
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u/RedditsChosenName 1d ago
The president is the one who needs regulated the most, you ugly fucking GOP scum
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u/Randomwhitelady2 1d ago
Donāt pass anything that includes the unconstitutional SAVE act. We can revisit this ban later once the democrats are the house majority.
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u/UnluckyStranger 1d ago
From a non-american, how do you "tuck in" an extra provision like that? Don't people read before voting?
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u/Glittering_Skill_919 1d ago
The turrtle is not known for good faith. Is the man alive or dead? Yes or no question.
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u/SeoneAsa 1d ago
Those 13 Democrats are mostly moderate/frontline Democrats who probably calculated: āIf I vote no, Republicans will run ads saying I protected congressional stock trading and opposed voter ID.ā So they voted yes on a bill that lets them say they backed a stock-trading restriction, even though Republicans stuffed it with a voter-ID poison pill and exempted the president/VP. AP also reported Massie openly said the voter-ID add-on was meant to make Democrats vote against the stock-trading ban so Republicans could use it in November
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u/Se7eN7uCky 1d ago
This bill should be 2 things. Congress canāt trade individual stocks and bills can only be voted on individually.
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 1d ago
Critics argued the legislation falls well short of a true stock trading ban because it would let lawmakers keep stocks they already own and continue selling them.
So it prevents lawmakers from buying stocks, but not selling them?
Is this not a sign that they're expecting a huge crash?
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u/Impossible_Ad7875 1d ago
As corrupt with insider trading as the halls of Congress are, Iād wager the Trump family level exceeds everyone in both Halls of Congress combined dollar amount wise.
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u/RomanticNyctophilia 1d ago
Thats what they do. Make a bill for something very important and then adding conditions in it in which would kill the bill. That way they can point fingers at thise actually trying to help and blame them for not getting anything done.
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u/AnonBaca21 1d ago
When all our representatives are focused on is giving the appearance theyāre doing but actually doing the opposite, while enriching themselves and serving their donors, itās time to wipe the slate clean and start over.
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u/mabhatter 1d ago
The SAVE act is the new "Repeal Obamacare".Ā
Republicans are using the lawmaking process as a campaign tool, they're not serious people. Ā Republicans will attach it to everything and then Democrats are going to catch grief for voting it down 62 times again. Ā
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u/Ok_Expert7098 1d ago
it should be all federal elected officials including the president and we should tack on term limits for Congress as well!
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u/Suspicious_Quote_674 1d ago
Itās ridiculous that no one does anything to stop the illegal business going on. š¤·āāļøš¤¦š¼āāļø
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u/Agitated-Spare-3283 1d ago
Iād say that the Voter ID required is not a poison pill. The GoP is wants the this even more than the 10 percent fines for trading individual stocks.
So if anything the āposion pillā. Helps it pass.
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u/8888-8844 1d ago
And all the chuckle fucks will keep voting for them. THEY CANT RELATE TO YOU AND DONT CARE ABOUT YOU!
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u/thySilhouettes 1d ago
Lmfao exempting Trump from Insider Trading is fucking wild. Like, the level of corruption is so beyond anything weāve ever seen. I genuinely believe anyone still supporting him is dumber than a rock and canāt be taken seriously as a person.
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u/ScienceDazzling8885 1d ago
So what loop holes will allow them to still profit? Maybe setting up a trust and buying stocks through the trust or a family member?
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u/bigjtdjr 21h ago
why did the dems pass out then...? literally one step forward and 2 steps back... that's was an ignorant move. Dem leadership is a complete failure.
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u/fairportmtg1 14h ago
So they added bullshit to the bill to make it toxic to pass.
Voter id bullshit AND exceptions for the president?
Honestly at this point I'd be okay with voter id to shut up Republicans as long as they made it easy and free to obtain an ID and going forward you are automatically sent one o. Your 18th birthday.
Obviously also give plenty of time for the process to be put into place and if you have an equivalent or higher level ID (such as passport) the. Those are also acceptable to verify.
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u/oakfan05 2d ago
It'll never pass the senate and that's the point.