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GOP Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE), the top Republican on the Ways and Means trade subcommittee, is not an advocate of President Donald Trump's punitive use of tariffs, according to new reporting by Politico.

Smith told reporter Ari Hawkins at a Tuesday morning breakfast that he's “'not a huge fan of tariffs,' like the ones Trump threatened to levy on Canada and Mexico and slapped on China over the weekend. But he said that 'we need to come to terms' with the fact that Trump is bent on using them to achieve his economic and security aims."

Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada over the weekend over what he called a "drug war" with "hundreds of thousands of people" dying in the U.S. "from drugs pouring through the Borders of Mexico and Canada." ...

At least 62 members of 118th Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

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Since Jan. 1, at least 37 members of Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

The most significant violator clocked in as much as six-and-a-half years late when reporting up to $8.5 million in stock transactions — Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA). Another lawmaker was just a couple days late but still logged up to $165,000 in late stock disclosures — Rep. John Curtis (R-UT). Between them are numerous other Republicans and Democrats alike who have consistently failed to abide by the STOCK Act....

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, the Florida congresswoman who blasted her Democratic predecessor for violating a federal conflicts-of-interest and financial disclosure law, appears to have broken the same law herself.

Again.

Salazar, a Republican, was late in disclosing her spouse’s $1,001 to $15,000 sale of stock in Florida renewable energy company, NextEra Energy Partners — an apparent violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, according to a Raw Story review of federal financial disclosures. ...

A dozen lawmakers have now violated a federal conflicts-of-interest and financial disclosure law in 2023 — the latest a Republican representative from Nebraska, according to a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial documents.

Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) was more than a year late disclosing some of his wife’s purchases of stock in CarterBaldwin, an executive search firm, according to a new congressional financial disclosure.

By law, Smith had 45 days to publicly report his wife’s purchases, all made between January 2022 and February 2023 and together valued between $3,003 and $45,000. (Federal lawmakers are only required to disclose the value of such stock purchases in broad ranges.) ...