After initially declining to take a position on the issue, on Dec. 17 President Joe Biden expressed support for a ban on Congressional stock trading.
“I don’t know how you look your constituents in the eye and know because the job they gave you, it gave you an inside track to make more money,” he told Democratic strategist Faiz Shakir in an interview.
“I think we should be changing the law … that nobody in the Congress should be able to make money in the stock market while they’re in the Congress,” said Biden.
Biden did not trade any stocks during his 36-year Senate career, said then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki in 2022….