Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Stock Trading Practices Under Scrutiny
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial congresswoman from Georgia’s 14th congressional district, used to be considered one of the worst stock traders on Capitol Hill. Used to be the operative part here — her fortunes seem to have changed significantly in the past few months.
As picked up on by Finbold’s congressional trading radar, the representative bought the dip caused by the Trump administration’s tariff announcement, as revealed in an April 7 disclosure. Moreover, MTG doubled down — and filed yet another disclosure on April 11, which revealed even more trades.
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Congressional stock trading is a controversial practice, even under normal circumstances. However, the recent trades made by U.S. politicians have led to renewed calls for a ban on the practice.
Representative Greene was asked about her well-timed trades in a lively town hall meeting held in Acworth, Georgia, on Tuesday, April 15, which also saw multiple protestors arrested. Her response was simple — the congresswoman stated that she has a fiduciary agreement with her portfolio manager, and that she does not place her buys and sells herself.
In addition, Marjorie Taylor Greene reflected on the trades, stating that Trump’s stance on tariffs was well known in advance, and that anyone with financial sense bought the dip.
“I think that criticism is laughable. President Trump has been talking about tariffs for decades. I have a fiduciary agreement with my portfolio manager — I don’t place my buys and sells. That’s something the portfolio manager does for me, and he did a great job. He bought the dip. And that’s what anyone that has any financial sense does when they know the market’s going to be going down. That was obvious to everyone, and President Trump had announced tariffs long before. That wasn’t anything — that wasn’t a secret. Big public information.”
Scrutiny Over Timing and Volume of Trades
Here’s why Marjorie Taylor Greene’s response, as plausible as it is, remains rather unsatisfactory. The two disclosure filings we’ve mentioned contain 40 trades — barring a single T-bill sale, all were purchases, and all are valued at between $1,001 and $15,000.
In other words, the congresswoman invested between $40,040 and $600,000 — at just the right time. As a representative, Taylor Greene makes $174,000 a year. She became a congresswoman in 2021 — so she’s made $696,000 up to 2025, and approximately $58,000 this year.
That’s a total of $754,000 — so MTG obviously had plenty of liquidity on hand in order to capitalize on this opportunity. To be fair, the congresswoman’s net worth is significantly higher than one might expect, but the point still stands.
The last factor that makes the whole affair rather suspicious is the nature of the stock market dip in question. Sure, like the congresswoman stated, anyone with sense would buy the dip — but a staunch ally of President Trump buying such a large quantity of stocks after a ‘self-inflicted dip’, which goes on to be reversed by a policy change in a matter of days is a tad different from buying a regular dip and taking the risk that the assets in question will either continue to see prices decrease or experience a long, drawn-out recovery.
