Congress and the Growing Insider Trading Debate

[johnblockbuster]

The disclosure has also added momentum to calls for stricter limits on congressional trading. Lawmakers across parties have proposed bans on stock, crypto, and prediction market trading by officials with access to non-public information, citing erosion of public trust.

Figures like Ritchie Torres and Ro Khanna have pushed new ethics legislation, arguing that financial transparency must keep pace with the growing influence of digital assets. As crypto becomes more integrated into policy debates, Donalds’ Bitcoin buy may be remembered less for its size and more for what it revealed about unresolved conflicts at the heart of modern governance.

[mendez]

lawmakers trading crypto while writing the rules is exactly why trust is so low