AOC: Millionaires are very overrepresented in congress... If we want a congress that reflects the actual country

[riversedge]

Good for these congress folks. Yet, they need to get money out of the election process--it takes to much fundraising to get elected. And of course millionaires have their own money.




@acyn.bsky.social‬
AOC: Millionaires are very overrepresented in congress… If we want a congress that reflects the actual country we seek to represent and fight for, we need to have working class people who work here

AOC: Millionaires are very overrepresented in congress… If we want a congress that reflects the actual country we seek to represent and fight for, we need to have working class people who work here

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-03T17:43:58.302Z

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Also Congress is minting millionaires because no restrictions on insider trading: example eMpTy Greene

If I'm not mistaken on details, there is a relatively fresh RepubliCon representative who has made $18 million in a short time from stock trading.

[Bettie]

2. Yep.

I suspect that's why people who are already very wealthy run for congress....they put in a whole lot of their own money because they know they'll have so much more once they are in and can start doing "legal" insider trading.

This is most prominent in Republican congresspersons, but not limited to them.

ETA: I know most aren't on TikTok, but this creator ranks the financial integrity of members of congress, based on public disclosures. They all have the same metric. It should come up to his channel. It is interesting to listen to. WARNING: He uses a word of mild profanity in his introduction.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yM2muPqgwzY (Ashely Hinson)

ETA2: https://www.youtube.com/@Stocking_The_Capitol (channel, which has all he's done so far)