Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from the House of Representatives on January 5, 2026. Her STOCK Act disclosure record, however, didn't leave with her — 295 filed transactions remain public, and her name continues to generate more search interest than almost any other member of Congress in the "stock trades" category, well ahead of colleagues who traded far more frequently. That's not really about volume. It's about one specific stretch of trading that turned her into a national argument for banning the practice altogether.
The Tariff Selloff Trades
In early April 2025, President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement triggered one of the sharpest market selloffs in years. While most retail investors were watching their portfolios drop, Greene's disclosures show she was buying — up to $285,000 worth of stock across multiple positions during the turmoil, according to her filed disclosures and reporting at the time.
The trade that drew the most attention was a purchase of up to $30,000 in Palantir Technologies (PLTR), made roughly a week before Palantir signed a $30 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Palantir has extensive federal contracting relationships, including with agencies under the Department of Homeland Security — the same committee Greene sat on. The proximity between the trade and the contract announcement was never shown to involve nonpublic information, but it became a flashpoint precisely because of how clean the optics were: a sitting Homeland Security Committee member buying into a federal contractor days before a federal contract tied to her committee's jurisdiction was announced.
The episode had consequences beyond Greene herself. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries cited her tariff-week trading directly when he announced his support for a congressional stock trading ban — turning one member's disclosure into a talking point for a policy fight that had been simmering in Congress for years.
What Her Full Record Shows
Zoomed out across her entire 295-trade history, the Palantir purchase sits inside a broader pattern rather than standing alone. Her most-traded tickers include Amazon (10 disclosed transactions), UPS (9), and a cluster of names traded 6-7 times each: Nvidia, JPMorgan Chase, Alphabet, Visa, NextEra Energy, and Intel. Notably, her disclosures also include IBIT, the spot Bitcoin ETF — seven transactions split between buys and sells, placing crypto exposure alongside blue-chip industrials and banks in the same portfolio.
One name stands out for a different reason: Nestlé (NSRGY) appears seven times in her filings, and every single one is a sale. No corresponding buys are on record, which reads as a full position wind-down rather than active trading around the name — a useful reminder that not every cluster of disclosures reflects conviction trading. Some of it is simply portfolio cleanup.
Her recent disclosure pattern, before her resignation, also showed a fast reporting turnaround — several trades filed just one to three days after execution, well inside the STOCK Act's 45-day disclosure window. A cluster of eight separate positions, all traded on the same day in late October 2025 and disclosed together three days later, looks more like a scheduled rebalance than a reaction to any single news event.
Committee Access and the Structural Question
Greene served on the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during the 119th Congress — a return to committee work after House Democrats stripped her of her original assignments (Education and Labor, and Budget) in February 2021 over past comments she'd made before taking office. Both committees she ultimately held carry exactly the kind of jurisdiction that makes stock disclosures worth reading closely: Homeland Security oversees the agencies — including ICE — that award contracts to companies like Palantir, and Oversight has broad investigative authority across the federal government.
This is the structural question the STOCK Act was written to make visible, not to resolve: when a committee member trades into a sector her committee has direct oversight of, disclosure lets the public see the pattern, even when it can't prove intent. Greene's case became a reference point in that debate not because her disclosure record was unusual in scale, but because the timing of one trade, set against her committee seat, was legible to anyone who looked.
Where the Trading Ban Debate Stands
Greene's tariff-week trades didn't launch the push to ban congressional stock trading — bills like Sen. Jon Ossoff's proposal and the bipartisan TRUST in Congress Act (co-sponsored by members including Rep. Mike Lawler) predate April 2025. But her disclosures gave the movement one of its most concrete, easily explained examples, at a moment when public support for a ban was already running above 86% across both parties. Whether that momentum survives long enough to produce actual legislation remains an open question — the Ossoff bill has passed committee before without reaching a floor vote.
Greene's full filed history — every ticker, date, and disclosed value range — remains available at her Capitol Trader profile. For members whose committee assignments create the same kind of overlap with their portfolios, the leaderboard and latest trades feed show where that pattern shows up next.