Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to X on Tuesday to warn that Republicans have a stealth plan to try to implement President Donald Trump’s desired national restrictions on voting rights.
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The issue concerns a bill being introduced by Republicans to prohibit insider trading on stocks by members of Congress — which, according to Ocasio-Cortez, would also include provisions of the voting-restriction bill known as the SAVE America Act.
“Republicans are trying to pull a trick this week,” wrote Ocasio-Cortez. “They say we are voting on an ‘insider trading’ bill, but have snuck in massive SAVE Act-style voter suppression measures to it. This is a GOP effort to sabotage national mail-in voting, disguised as a trading ban.”
She vowed to oppose the plan.
“If GOP were at all serious about the insider trading issue, they would put it up on its own for a vote,” she continued. “They know adding voter suppression to it will sabotage the effort to ban insider trading. That’s exactly why they’re doing it this way. Don’t fall for it. Spread the word.”
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The issue of banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks has gained prominence in recent years, after a series of cases of members charged with insider trading. Congress passed legislation in 2012 to require members to publicly disclose their stock trades as a means of keeping things transparent; however, in practice, many lawmakers in both parties simply ignore the rules.
Republicans put forward legislation earlier this year purporting to crack down on stock trades, but Ocasio-Cortez noted at the time the bill would not only allow for many kinds of trades to continue, it would actually make some kinds of trades less transparent.
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