New York Lawmakers’ Stock Investments Are Driving Their Wealth

Many of their financial habits have come under scrutiny amid American reckonings about affordability and impartiality.

Tom Suozzi

Rep. Tom Suozzi Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP

Financial disclosures from New York’s congressional delegation show gaps between members’ public positions and how they themselves have made their wealth — even as its members join the chorus of lawmakers fixed on affordability ahead of the midterms.

That discrepancy is especially clear when it comes to stock trading.

The members with some of the highest median net worths in the delegation are also among the most active stock traders in the group, according to NOTUS’ analysis of their most recent personal finance disclosures.