President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday after the Republican’s proposal to ban stock trading by members of Congress — and the president and vice president — won bipartisan approval to advance in a committee vote.
It’s the second time in as many days that Trump laid into senators in his own party as the president tries, sometimes without success, to publicly pressure them to fall in line. A day earlier, Trump tore into veteran GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa over an obscure Senate procedure regarding nominations.
Trump called Hawley a “second-tier Senator” who was playing into the hands of Democrats.
“I don’t think real Republicans want to see their President, who has had unprecedented success, TARGETED, because of the ‘whims’ of a second-tier Senator named Josh Hawley!”
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Trump calls GOP’s Hawley ‘second tier’ senator after bill to ban stock trades in government advances
- by: LISA MASCARO and LEAH ASKARINAM
- 07.31.25
- Source:
AP News
- 07/31/2025
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