Marjorie Taylor Greene Finds a Way to Profit Off Government Debt
Last September, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for a shutdown to stop government spending. Four days later, she lent the government money.
Financial disclosures show that on Sept. 21, the anti-government conspiracy theorist bought between $250,000 and $500,000 in U.S. Treasury billslow-yield financial instruments that help the government fund the debt and pay expenses such as salaries.
Greene, of course, has styled herself as a fierce fiscal hawk, going so far as to co-sponsor a bill earlier this year titled Recognizing the national debt as a threat to national security.
But Greene must not think its much of a threat: The T-bill purchase was her largest transaction of the yearand its not even close.
Greene, who is a multimillionaire, has traded heavily in securities since she joined Congress a year ago, executing 76 purchases and 14 sales. Of those 90 transactions, the second-largest purchase range behind the T-bill buy was between $15,001 and $50,000a difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Congressional disclosures only give dollar amounts in ranges.)
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(13,895 posts)Haggard Celine
(16,844 posts)oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)But nobody seems to care.
Oh, and screw her lying, cheating ass.