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Congressman Tim Burchett did not mince words on Sunday when he ripped into congressional insider trading as “crooked as a dog leg” while laying out his push to ban lawmakers from trading stocks. His appearance on The Sunday Briefing made clear that this is not empty rhetoric — Burchett is demanding real accountability and wants legislators barred from playing the market with privileged information.
Americans are rightly furious that the people who make the rules are treating public service like a private hedge fund, and Burchett is channeling that anger into concrete reform. He told viewers this problem has eaten away at trust in Washington, and that bans on congressional stock trading are the bare minimum to begin restoring it.
Make no mistake: this is about more than optics. When lawmakers can profit from secrets and insider knowledge, the whole system becomes rigged against hardworking taxpayers, and criminal penalties should be on the table for the worst offenders. Conservatives who believe in honest government should lead the charge, not shrug and let the Swamp keep its perks.
At the same time, President Donald Trump showed why strong leadership matters by sitting down with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for a White House meeting on November 21, 2025, a surprising but pragmatic turn after months of public sparring. The face-to-face produced unexpectedly cordial moments, proving that principled engagement can produce results for the American people even across sharp ideological divides.
Trump’s willingness to find common ground — telling reporters he expects to be “helping” Mamdani rather than hurting him — is the kind of toughness Americans respect: defend your principles, then use the levers of power to get things done for citizens. That pragmatic posture also sends a clear message to leftist officials that cooperation will be conditional on producing results for voters, not on ideological purity or performative outrage.
Still, conservatives should not be naive about who Zohran Mamdani is; he is a self-styled democratic socialist who has made stark critiques of federal policy and rhetoric that many Americans find troubling. The cordial photo op does not erase his record or his radical allies, and Republican leaders must remain vigilant in defending law and order, fiscal sanity, and the rule of law in New York and beyond.
If Washington wants to meaningfully rebuild trust, it must embrace Burchett’s proposal and move beyond toothless ethics speeches to real reform: an outright ban on congressional stock trading, clear enforcement, and criminal consequences where appropriate. Patriots of every party should unite against a two-tiered system that lets insiders profit while the rest of America works and plays by the rules; that is how we take the power back from the corrupt and restore honor to public service.
