Democrats ramp up ‘market manipulation’ investigations on tariff pause

House and Senate Democrats are launching multiple “market manipulation” inquiries stemming from President Trump’s sudden stay of country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs, demanding key information on who may have known about the move ahead of time from several offices and calling for an independent Securities and Exchange Commission investigation. On April 10 Sens. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) wrote a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer -- in his role as acting director of the White House Office of...