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2025-07-30 08:36:27
[Foreign media: The White House is lobbying hard against a stock trading ban involving the president] According to the AXIOS website, U.S. Republican Senator Josh Hawley's bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress is becoming a major problem for the Republican Party. Several people familiar with the matter revealed that due to the opposition of Rand Paul, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Hawley needs the support of the Democrats to pass the committee vote scheduled for Wednesday. Therefore, Hawley agreed to include wording that would also ban the president and vice president in the bill, which would prohibit the president and vice president from making certain investments, expanding the scope that was originally limited to members of Congress. Sources said that the White House's Office of Legislative Affairs began to fight back after learning of this, lobbying against the stock trading ban.
