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The Rubin Report

How One Law Could Finally Force Both Parties to Stop Insider Trading for Good | Anna Paulina Luna

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News, News Commentary

4.614.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna about how her push to ban insider trading in Congress is enraging both Republicans and Democrats in the process; why the public overwhelmingly supports legislation barring lawmakers, spouses, and dependents from stock trading; the affordability issues facing Americans; and much more.

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0:00.0

For 87% or 86% of Americans, regardless of party affiliation, I want this practice to end, and they support what we're doing.

0:08.4

I can say that with Nancy Pelosi, I think the return was 17,000% from the time that she, I'm serious, that she left office.

0:15.4

And on average members, I'm not saying that all the ones that are stock trading are doing it illegally, but a majority are.

0:21.2

You're seeing those 600% returns almost guaranteed.

0:24.0

They're outperforming the S&P.

0:25.4

Or you have instances where, you know, you have a member of Congress who might not technically be trading.

0:29.6

But then all of a sudden, you know, Susan from wherever, who was a stay-at-home mom for 20 years, is now like the most prolific stock trader that you've ever met and is outperforming Wall Street.

0:46.2

All right, Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna, somehow this is the first time we've met.

0:50.5

We had to come to D.C. for two Floridians to meet, how you dealing with this weather? Well, you're jacketed up, so I guess I know. I wear coats till May. Don't go outside much. You have become, I would say, one of the most outspoken people in all of Congress right now. Like every time I open up Twitter, you're doing something with a camera right in front of your face, saying all sorts of stuff. What is like your main focus at the moment? I'd have to say that, so the best

1:18.1

piece of advice ever got was actually when I first went for office. It was from Jim Jordan. And it was

1:22.1

if you fall through on your promises on the campaign trail, being in office is not that hard.

1:27.3

So I'm simply following through all my promises to my constituents. I ran on ending government

1:31.9

corruption. I also head up one of the task force to kind of look into the declassified files that

1:36.1

Trump's been releasing. But specifically to what I'm trying to do right now, we have a massive

1:40.6

problem in this country with insider trading. And for almost a decade, members of Congress had been talking about it. And by the time I got elected my second term, I realized how it goes up here. So a lot of people will come up here. They'll say what they need to say to get elected. But then they understand that there's never going to really be a vote. They're never really going to push the issue. And if they fall in line, they'll get their legislation put on the floor. They'll get their invitations to different events. And then it'll pretty much be an easy job where they're not really called out for what they're doing. So one of the biggest things that we're doing right now is if you really want to talk about the crux of the issue of affordability in this country, you could even talk about foreign policy and how it's been impacted by people's stock portfolios. It all ties to the fact that members of

2:21.2

Congress are still allowed to individually trade stock. And not just that, but majority

2:25.1

of members on both sides are engaging in insider trading and anyone who's telling you otherwise

2:28.9

is lying to you. And so we're forcing the vote on that or we're trying to at least.

2:32.7

So when people see Nancy Pelosi's, you know, there's the Nancy Pelosi stock trader or even Marjorie Taylor Green, who I think came in with around $750,000 is going to leave with about $30 million.

2:44.5

Now I know some of it's from her husband's construction or some of these things, but you just start seeing these crazy numbers all over the place.

2:51.2

How is this not just like the easiest win ever in general?

2:55.3

Because everyone I think ideologically is on board.

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