'If Democrats were smart or cared about winning, they'd ban congressional stock trading by the end of the week and take this off the table.'
and other observers immediately criticized Pelosi's remarks as both politically damaging and absurd on the merits, given that members of Congress have access to non-public information that ordinary people don't—a dynamic that the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare.
, Republican and Democratic members of Congress made nearly 1,500 stock transactions worth up to $158 million between February and April 2020 as the coronavirus began to spread across the United States, throwing the economy into chaos and sending the stock market into a tailspin.
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