{"id":1924066,"date":"2023-05-04T06:12:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T10:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-goes-rogue-teaming-up-with-with-maga-enemy-matt-gaetz-on-stock-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T06:12:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T10:12:14","slug":"aoc-goes-rogue-teaming-up-with-with-maga-enemy-matt-gaetz-on-stock-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-goes-rogue-teaming-up-with-with-maga-enemy-matt-gaetz-on-stock-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Goes Rogue, Teaming Up With With MAGA Enemy Matt Gaetz on Stock Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-goes-rogue-teaming-up-with-with-maga-enemy-matt-gaetz-on-stock-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1924066&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p><span>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) bucked Democratic leadership this week, partnering with Republican Matt Gaetz (Fla.) to introduce legislation that would bar members of Congress from trading stocks.<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;AOC is wrong a lot, she&#8217;d probably say the same thing about me, but she&#8217;s not corrupt,&#8221; Gaetz said Tuesday night, after the two unlikely collaborators joined forces on the bill. &#8220;And I will work with anyone and everyone to ensure that Congress is not so compromised.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The bill, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/3003\"><span>H.R. 3003<\/span><\/a><span>, would ban members, their spouses, and other dependents from owning or trading stocks. Members of Congress traded $788 million worth of securities in the last year alone, Gaetz said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The move represents an act of defiance from Ocasio-Cortez against House Democratic leadership. Ocasio-Cortez has sparred on the issue of stock trading with former speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), who initially opposed a ban on members and their families from trading. Pelosi eventually said she would support such a bill, but critics <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/09\/30\/house-stocks-trade-ban-fail\/\">accused<\/a> her and Democratic leadership of sabotaging the effort by introducing a bill last year that was doomed to fail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bill is also sponsored by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D., Ill.)<\/p>\n<p><span>Pelosi has received criticism on both sides of the aisle for her husband&#8217;s stock trading moves while she&#8217;s been in office. Earlier this year, her husband <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/convenient-timing-pelosi-sold-3-million-of-google-stock-weeks-before-doj-launched-antitrust-probe\/\">sold<\/a> up to $3 million in Google stocks just before the Department of Justice launched an antitrust probe of the company. In 2022, she <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/wolf-of-washington-pelosi-is-poised-to-score-big-from-semiconductor-bill\/\">oversaw<\/a> the passing of a bill that aided a tech company her husband had recently bought stock from.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The unlikely alliance between Ocasio-Cortez and Gaetz follows sporadic hostilities between the two. The &#8220;Squad&#8221; member once <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/aoc-and-matt-gaetz-spar-on-twitter-bad-haircut-in-a-cheap-suit\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> Gaetz a &#8220;bad haircut in a cheap suit.&#8221;<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>Ocasio-Cortez defied Pelosi this week when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/may\/02\/aoc-dianne-feinstein-should-retire-courts\">called<\/a> for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), who is 89 years old and has been away from Congress for weeks with shingles, to resign. Her absence &#8220;is causing great harm,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said, saying Feinstein\u2019s absence on the Judiciary Committee is stalling President Joe Biden&#8217;s judicial nominees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pelosi has been an ardent defender of Feinstein against calls for her to step down. Last month she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/pelosi-accuses-fellow-dems-of-sexism-for-calling-on-senile-senator-to-resign\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> calls for Feinstein to resign are sexist. Feinstein on Monday said she is &#8220;hopeful&#8221; to return to her job next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) bucked Democratic leadership this week, partnering with Republican Matt Gaetz (Fla.) to introduce legislation that would bar members of Congress from trading stocks. &#8220;AOC is wrong a lot, she&#8217;d probably say the same thing about me, but she&#8217;s not corrupt,&#8221; Gaetz said Tuesday night, after the two unlikely collaborators joined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1924067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[9287,8334,7278,3624,5656,3622,4359,13676],"class_list":["post-1924066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-rogue","tag-aoc","tag-enemy","tag-gaetz","tag-maga","tag-matt","tag-stock","tag-teaming"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}