At a "Fighting Oligarchy" event in Nampa, Idaho, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) decried members of Congress trading individual stocks.
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00:00You know, when I first got to Congress, I was genuinely shocked by how the place worked,
00:07even having run against dark money in the first place.
00:11The everyday influence of corruption and dark money was astonishing.
00:17And we, in Congress, have somehow conditioned ourselves to believe that it's normal for
00:25elected representatives who have sworn an oath to the people of this country to day-trade
00:31individual stocks and make millions with the sensitive information that we are entrusted
00:38with for the purpose of governing.
00:41Just look at what happened this week.
00:43But how can anyone possibly make an objective vote on health care, energy, or war when their
00:50own money is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stocks?
00:57You can't.
01:00And we saw it just happen with Trump's corrupt and disastrous and rushed tariff scheme.
01:08We saw Marjorie Taylor Greene buy that dip.
01:12I got one question for her.
01:16How much did you make?
01:18How much did you make off of people's despair?
01:21How much did you make off that panic?
01:23How much did you make off of that suffering?
01:25No more.
01:26We can't accept it.