Overview

• Pelosi abruptly cut off Jake Tapper on CNN when he attempted to read President Trump’s claim that she profited from inside information, insisting the discussion stay focused on Medicaid’s 60th anniversary.
• Trump accused Pelosi of growing rich through insider trading and called for her to be investigated over high-return stock trades executed by her husband.
• Pelosi dismissed the charges as “ridiculous,” asserted that her husband alone handles the investments and called for any unethical trading to be prosecuted.
• The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced the HONEST Act by an 8–7 vote to bar members of Congress, the president and vice president from trading individual stocks.
• The exchange and the committee vote highlight ongoing partisan disagreements over ethics reforms and public trust in elected officials.