- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the more frequent stock traders in Congress.
- Just before Trump’s tariff pause sent markets soaring, she bought thousands of dollars in stock.
- Democrats have speculated that some Trump allies may have benefited from market manipulation.
In the hours before President Donald Trump announced a 90-day partial pause on a slew of new tariffs on foreign goods, he declared on social media that it was a “great time to buy.”
One of his loudest allies in Congress had already gotten the message.
According to a disclosure made public on Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene plunged somewhere between $21,000 and $315,000 into the stock market on April 8 and 9, investing in 17 different companies including Apple, Elon Musk’s Tesla, NVIDIA, and Palantir.
Trump’s tariff pause announcement sent markets soaring on April 9, and anyone who purchased stocks in the final hours or days before Trump’s announcement would have seen significant gains.
Greene has said that she doesn’t control her own trades, telling BI in a statement on Friday that she signed a “fiduciary agreement to allow my financial advisor to control my investments.”
“All of my investments are reported with full transparency,” Greene added.
The congresswoman’s office did not immediately respond to a follow-up question on Monday about whether she had advanced knowledge of Trump’s tariff pause. In the wake of the market rebound, Democrats have suggested that Trump and his allies may have benefited from market manipulation.
There is no evidence to suggest this took place, but more could emerge from disclosures in the coming weeks. Members of Congress and executive branch officials are required to file disclosures within 45 days of making a transaction.
So far, Greene is the only member of Congress known to have bought stocks after markets tanked due to Trump’s initial “Liberation Day” tariff announcements. On top of this latest trade, Greene also invested up to $285,000 in 17 different companies on April 3 and 4.
