Why Sen. Roger Marshall Stopped Trading Stocks.
Why Sen. Roger Marshall Stopped Trading Stocks.
"There seems to be some shenanigans going on and Americans deserve to see through them.”
Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican, has always been plainspoken and straightforward when answering our questions, no matter how off-kilter they may seem. Such was the case yesterday when we asked his advice on questioning his senate colleagues about the details of their stock trades.
“Honestly, I stopped trading altogether because I was afraid that I would miss a filing deadline,” said Marshall on Tuesday afternoon, laughing. “Also, I just got too busy to mess with it … but just so you know, I’ve got a retirement fund and it’s kind of invested in the same thing every month and that would be the only thing I’m doing in terms of investing.”
Marshall’s last stock transaction on record was made August 29 and he has an overall net worth of $6.6 million, according to the tracker at Quiver Quantitative. For his part, the Kansas Senator echoed a growing chorus of his congressional colleagues calling for the trades among members to be above board. “I think that we need to be as transparent as possible,” he said. “There seems to be some shenanigans going on and Americans deserve to see through them.”
Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, also took a jab at his colleagues’ stock trading during an interview yesterday about TikTok. Asked about the continuing threat of government shutdowns, Hawley didn’t waffle. “Maybe if members of Congress spend less time stock trading and day trading and all this other junk, maybe if they would focus on their jobs, maybe we’d get this stuff done,” he said.
