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In the days before President Donald Trump suddenly paused most of the punishing tariffs on foreign countries he had revealed in early April, more than a dozen congressional lawmakers were tied to thousands of dollars’ worth of stock transactions, including significant purchases as the US stock market tumbled, a CNN analysis of financial filings shows.

Seven Democrats and three Republicans reported stock transactions made on April 7, two days before Trump instituted the pause, according to a CNN review of a database of congressional financial filings compiled by Capitol Trades , a platform by the financial data research firm 2iQ which tracks lawmakers’ financial activity. That day, a post on X erroneously suggested a pause was already underway, tumbling stocks and sending th

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