Rep. Greg Casar revealed one reason why the congresswoman may be using her position to go after vulnerable people.
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday after the DOGE subcommittee — a panel she chairs under the House Oversight Committee — held a hearing on transgender people in sports.
“What the hell are we doing here? Seriously?” asked Casar of the GOP-majority panel’s “Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” hearing.
“We are here because Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks that if she picks on vulnerable people like trans folks, she can avoid having a discussion about the allegations of insider trading against her.”
Casar made a nod to the congresswoman’s disclosure that she’d bought somewhere between $21,000 and $315,000 in stocks on the day before — and the day of — Trump announcing a pause to most of his widespread tariffs last month.
Democrats have since accused Greene of violating insider trading laws, suggesting that she knew about the trade policy change-up prior to the president’s announcement, which sent markets soaring.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), as part of a push to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, claimed that Trump’s approach to tariffs was “all about manipulating the markets so that he could quietly enrich his friends who bought the dip.”
Greene told reporters at the time that her financial adviser handles her stocks and claimed she doesn’t place her own buys, per the Georgia Recorder.
“That’s something that my portfolio manager does for me, and he did a great job. Guess what he did? He bought the dip,” she said.
“And that’s what anybody that has any financial sense does when they know the market’s going to be going down. That was obvious to everyone.”
On Wednesday, Casar continued to dig into Greene over her focus on debating trans athletes, a population that Republicans have fixated on and legislated against despite trans people making up just a tiny portion of all athletes.
“She thinks she can distract from the fact that Trump and MAGA Republicans are raising your costs every single day, suppressing your wages every single day, stealing your taxpayer dollars every single day and threatening your health care,” he stressed.
“That’s the reason we’re at this crazy hearing today.”
Casar: “I’ve knocked on thousands of doors and not a single time has someone flung open their door and said, ‘Thank God you’re here, congressman. I want to ask about transgender people fencing.’ It’s just never happened … what the hell are we doing here? We are here because… pic.twitter.com/vKkDP9S3My
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 7, 2025
