The current Congress has a laughably low approval rating of just 17%. It seems near impossible for the public view of our elected officials to drop any lower.
A recent New York Times investigation should do the trick. The Times dug into the stock trades that members of Congress made from 2019 to 2021. They found many cases in which politicians or their close family members made stock trades in circumstances in which they could have had insider knowledge.
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