House Speaker Mike Johnson said that members of Congress should be able to continue owning stocks.
He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.
Earlier this year, Johnson expressed support for a ban, citing the “appearance of impropriety.”
If Carter was willing to give up his farm, you can muster up enough balls to stop trading stocks while you’re in office.
And if it discourages people running for office, that seems like a feature, not a bug.