Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Yeah, I think it's the right direction.
But like I said, I want to start.
We'll hit.
It's kind of like the 90-10 rule.
We'll hit 90% of the problems by just saying you cannot buy, sell, or trade individual stocks.
Full stop, period, we're done.
You'll have so many days after you're elected to divest, and you're done.
And then if you've got, I know, and there's some of this, well, you have business interests and a blah, blah, blah.
set up a true blind trust, not a pretend blind trust, where you put the money in, but you can kind of peek over the edge and see what's going on.
You can set up a true blind trust.
And that's where you start
working down through the smaller and smaller details.
You're part owner in a family business.
How do you deal with that?
And there are, there's some places at the margins you've got to work through it.
But let's just do the basics.
And if we still have a problem, we can always come back and tighten those up.
And the basics are get Congress, and I want to be clear for me, get Congress to
get every head of every agency, get everybody who is named to the president's cabinet or deputies, these people in policymaking decisions, and, drumroll please, the president of the United States, all out of the business of trying to make money personally at the same time that they are serving in public office.
And it's a no brainer.