{"id":11898,"date":"2025-08-01T01:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hawley-defends-himself-against-pile-on-from-trump-over-stock-trading-bill-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:21:12","slug":"hawley-defends-himself-against-pile-on-from-trump-over-stock-trading-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hawley-defends-himself-against-pile-on-from-trump-over-stock-trading-bill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawley defends himself against pile-on from Trump over stock trading bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of searing criticism from President Donald Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley defended his legislation that would ban stock trading among lawmakers, the president and vice president. In a Truth Social post Wednesday afternoon, Trump called the Missouri Republican a &ldquo;second-tier Senator&rdquo; and criticized his bill as a win for the Democrats and &ldquo;so bad for our Country.&rdquo; Hawley&rsquo;s bill was advancedby the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday morning in a 8-7 vote&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/30\/congress\/trump-comes-for-hawley-00485868\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of searing criticism from President Donald Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley defended his legislation that would ban stock trading among lawmakers, the president and vice president. In a Truth Social post Wednesday afternoon, Trump called the Missouri Republican a &ldquo;second-tier Senator&rdquo; and criticized his bill as a win for the Democrats and &ldquo;so bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}