US EditionElizabeth Warren gets in treasury secretary's face over insider trading accusations
- Senator Elizabeth Warren questions Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent regarding alleged insider trading linked to recent trade talks.
- According to reports, White House officials gave Wall Street executives early information about trade developments.
- Bessent reportedly offered specific advance information on administration trade policy at a closed-door investor summit last Tuesday.
- The S&P 500 index gained almost three percent after Bessent's private comments were reportedly leaked to the public.
- Congressional Democrats now request a comprehensive accounting and public release of senior employees' financial transaction reports.
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Elizabeth Warren gets in treasury secretary's face over insider trading accusations
Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for answers following reports that officials inside President Donald Trump's White House have been providing Wall Street executives with advance notice about potentially market-moving trade talks with other nations, i...
Warren to Trump Treasury Chief: Did You Give Wall Street Execs Insider Info on Trade Talks?
"You owe Congress and the public an explanation for why you and other White House officials appear to be providing Wall Street insiders secret information on the tariffs," wrote Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Democrats press White House over potential insider trading before Trump tariff pause
(WASHINGTON) — Democratic lawmakers are “urgently” calling for the White House to issue a full disclosure of financial transactions leading up to President Donald Trump’s sudden pause on a sweeping set of tariffs earlier this month, raising concerns that people close to the president “potentially violated federal ethics and insider trading laws” surrounding his actions. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Rep. Mike Levin, D-Calif., sent a letter on …
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Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Democratic lawmakers are "urgently" calling for the White House to issue a full disclosure of financial transactions leading up to President Donald Trump's sudden pause on a sweeping set of tariffs earlier this month, raising concerns that people close to the president "potentially violated federal ethics and insider trading laws" surrounding his actions.Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Rep. Mike Levin…
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Democrats press White House over potential 'insider trading' before Trump tariff pause
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic lawmakers are “urgently” calling for the White House to issue a full disclosure of financial transactions leading up to President Donald Trump’s sudden pause on a sweeping set of tariffs earlier this month, raising concerns that people close to the president “potentially violated federal ethics and insider trading laws” surrounding his actions. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Rep. Mike Levi…
Former Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism
(4-28-25) Sherrod Brown…the former Democrat Ohio Senator thinks the President’s tariff platform, though disastrous, appeals to an increasingly desperate working class. Sherrod Brown’s op-ed in the New York Times last Sunday, laying out the problems with our current trade policy, and the danger for progressives of returning to “the old, neoliberal Washington-Wall Street consensus on trade.” Former Sen. Brown writes: “Lost in the discussion of th…
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