Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed that he would be pushing for a ban on “single-stock trading” for members of the United States Congress, noting that the “American people deserve better.”
In a post on X, Bessent shared a video from an interview on Bloomberg Television, talking about how politicians “shouldn’t come to” Washington, D.C. to get rich, but should come to serve American citizens.
When asked about “stock ban legislation that has been circulating around Congress,” and if President Donald Trump was prepared to sign that bill, Bessent explained they don’t “have the perfect bill” yet.
“I am going to start pushing for this single-stock trading ban, because it is the credibility of the House and the Senate, that you look at some of these
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