The Numbers Project
The $174,000 Fiction
Part 1 • Now Live
They Earn $174,000. They Traded $5.3 Billion. You Have $955.
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They Knew
Part 3 • Coming Soon
The Presidential Playbook
Part 4 • Coming Soon
The Two Americas
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Database

Congressional Stock Tracker

95,501 trades. 336 members. Searchable by name, party, state, sector.

Tracker

Trump Post → Market

30,000+ Truth Social posts mapped against the S&P 500.

Comparison

Who Gets What

Congressional compensation vs. average Americans. Side by side.

$174,000 salary.
$5.3 billion traded.
$955 saved.
95,501 stock trades exposed • 336 members of Congress
Featured Investigation • Part 1 of 4

They Earn $174,000. They Traded $5.3 Billion. You Have $955.

Members of Congress earn $174,000 a year. Their stock trading volume: $5.3 billion. The median American has $955 saved for retirement. We built a database of every trade. Here’s what we found—and why the proposed “ban” is designed to fail.

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Interactive Data

Search 95,501 Congressional Stock Trades

Every STOCK Act disclosure from 2016 through last week. Search by member, party, state, sector, and amount. See who traded what—and when—mapped against every vote they cast.

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Who Gets What: Congressional Pay vs. Average Americans

$174K salary. $17K in free health insurance. A guaranteed pension. 239 days off. Compare it to what you get.

By the Numbers
$5.3B
Total congressional stock trading volume in the database
7,266x
McCaul’s (R-TX) stock trading volume vs. his $174K salary
$955
Median American retirement savings (NIRS, 2026)
$200
Fine for Congress members who violate STOCK Act disclosure rules
4,436
Trade-vote correlations found. 600 scored highly suspicious. Zero charges filed.
1,692
Congressional trades in April 2025—the all-time record. “Liberation Day.”
$7.25
Federal minimum wage. Unchanged since 2009. Worth $4.90 after inflation.
67
Members who traded simultaneously after classified COVID briefings in 2020

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Congressional Stock Tracker

95,501 trades. 336 members. Cross-referenced with 1,179 votes and 4,436 correlations.

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Trump Post → Market

30,000+ Truth Social posts mapped against the S&P 500. See the TACO pattern in real time.

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Who Gets What

Congressional salary + stock trading vs. the average American. The table nobody wants to print.

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