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Josh Hawley Takes Stock

Congress’s latest, inevitably futile ritual of attempting to ban its own members from trading stocks was particularly explosive this time around, after the president erupted at Sen. Josh Hawley over a perceived threat to his own bottom line. And yet, the latest effort may present even bigger hurdles.

Josh Hawley
Trump was furious, quite publicly, which forced Hawley to explain himself in a phone call with the president. Photo: Al Drago/Getty Images
Leigh Ann Caldwell
August 3, 2025

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In a stream of midsummer Truth Social posts attacking the Fed chair as “a stubborn MORON,” announcing the relocation of nuclear submarines in response to “provocative statements” by the former president of Russia, and firing a government statistician over jobs numbers he called “RIGGED,” Donald Trump also took the time to attack a putative Senate ally: Josh Hawley of Missouri, the lone Republican to vote with Democrats to advance a congressional stock trading ban out of committee. For this, the president dubbed Hawley a “second-tier” senator engaged in “SABOTAGE” by supporting a bill “that Nancy Pelosi is in absolute love with.” Heavy stuff.