
Trump calls GOP’s Hawley ‘second tier’ senator after bill to ban stock trades in government advances
President Donald Trump has lashed out at Sen. Josh Hawley after the Republican’s proposal to ban stock trading by members of Congress — and the president and vice president — advanced in a committee vote. It’s the second time in as many days that Trump laid into senators in his own party. A day earlier, Trump tore into veteran GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa over an obscure Senate procedure. Hawley’s stock trade legislation with the panel’s top Democrat sailed out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on a bipartisan vote. Trump called Hawley a “second-tier Senator” after the vote.