DOGE committee goes off the rails after Democrats suggest Marjorie Taylor Greene engaged in insider trading

Democrats suggested that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene engaged successful insider trading astatine a House proceeding connected Wednesday, derailing the proceedings for astir 20 minutes.

The DOGE subcommittee, which is chaired by the Georgia Republican, was holding a proceeding connected transgender athletes competing successful fencing and different sports.

As Democrats connected the sheet criticized Greene, 2 of them — Reps. Greg Casar and Jasmine Crockett, some of Texas — brought up recent banal trades made by the congresswoman.

"We're present due to the fact that Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks that if she picks connected susceptible radical similar trans folks, she tin debar having a treatment astir the allegations of insider trading against her," Casar said.

Greene purchased tens of thousands of dollars successful banal successful an array of companies betwixt April 2 and 9, erstwhile President Donald Trump's tariff announcement and subsequent pause led to ample shifts successful the banal market. The congresswoman has maintained that the trades were made by an autarkic fiscal advisor.

"That's thing that my portfolio manager does for me, and helium did a large job," the congresswoman told the Georgia Recorder past month. "Guess what helium did? He bought the dip."

Democrats person argued that Greene and different Republicans adjacent to Trump whitethorn person known astir the president's tariff moves up of time, allowing them to profit from non-public information.

When Crockett brought up Greene's trades, she displayed a poster featuring the congresswoman's face.

"Let's look astatine fraud," Crockett said. "We could analyse whether the White House and members of this subcommittee engaged successful insider trading and marketplace manipulation. Maybe it's a coincidence that the chairwoman brought hundreds of thousands of dollars worthy of banal the time earlier Trump announced a 90-day intermission connected tariffs, but I conjecture we'll ne'er know."

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina past asked to instrumentality Crockett's words down, saying the Texas congresswoman was "alleging a transgression act." That led to the committee suspending its concern to reappraisal Crockett's remarks.

Eventually, Greene called the gathering backmost to order.

The Georgia Republican asked Mace to retreat her motion, saying the Texas Democrat's remarks were "borderline" and that it was important to determination connected "in the involvement of making definite that we enactment connected track, alternatively of getting sidetracked by Democrats' non-stop fake accusations."