House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was called out for his brazen hypocrisy after attacking a Republican lawmaker over his stock trades while never uttering as much as a peep about a top member of his own party doing the same thing.
The Democrat House leader took to X this week to blast Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) for continuing to play the market after he had pledged to back a ban on congressional stock trading if elected, something that others have also proposed but has yet to materialize, and probably never will for obvious reasons.
Enough with the thievery.
This guy is getting richer while everyday Americans struggle to live paycheck to paycheck.
When we take back the House, we will put an end to this blatant corruption. https://t.co/R4mDdSDMXf
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeemjeffries) June 2, 2025
“Enough with the thievery. This guy is getting richer while everyday Americans struggle to live paycheck to paycheck. When we take back the House, we will put an end to this blatant corruption,” proclaimed “Dollar Store Obama” in his post.
While publicly kicking the GOP freshman to score cheap political points, Jeffries ignored the trading of former speaker Nancy Pelosi whose amazing run of luck in knowing which stocks to buy or sell at precisely the right time has made her millions of dollars while serving as an elected representative, a position that some have suggested she has exploited to cash in on insider information.
The minority leader’s selective outrage was pointed out by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which suggested that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
“It’s rich for Hakeem Jeffries and national Democrats to suddenly care about stock trading when their real leader, Nancy Pelosi, and members of their own caucus make traders on Wall Street look like amateurs at a penny arcade. This political pandering is lame,” NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The self-proclaimed Speaker Emerita has parlayed her stock picking wizardry into a massive fortune during her time in office, and according to one watchdog X account, has managed to outperform some of the world’s most famous investors, including the Oracle of Omaha himself.
Here are estimates of how some of the world’s most famous investors performed this quarter:
Warren Buffett: +1.8%
Carl Icahn: +4.8%
Ken Griffin: +5.7%
Ray Dalio: +7.9%Nancy Pelosi: +13.1% pic.twitter.com/YAxnqWHQ3W
— Quiver Quantitative (@QuiverQuant) April 5, 2024
Pelosi’s market prowess has been honored with a popular X account, the Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker, which tracks her trading.
We are so back.
According to QuiverQuant, Nancy Pelosi has made $4,700,000 in the stock market today.
That’s 26x her yearly salary.
In one day.
— Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ (@PelosiTracker_) May 12, 2025
She is also the namesake of legislation introduced in 2023 by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) to ban congressional trading by lawmakers and their spouses, the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act.
Members of Congress and their spouses shouldn’t be using their position to get rich on the stock market – today l’m introducing legislation to BAN stock trading & ownership by members of Congress. I call it the PELOSI Act pic.twitter.com/aIXNwSnTvW
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) January 24, 2023
A Pelosi spokesperson insisted that the 84-year-old Democrat supports a ban on congressional stock trading, telling Fox News Digital, “Speaker Pelosi does not own any stocks, and she has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions.”
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