President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Wednesday for voting alongside Democrats to advance a bill banning stock trading for members of Congress, the president and the vice president.

“The Democrats, because of our tremendous achievements and success, have been trying to target me for a long period of time, and they’re using Josh Hawley, who I got elected twice, as a pawn to help them,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Truth Social.

“I wonder why Hawley would pass a bill that (Rep.) Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is in absolute love with – he is playing right into the dirty hands of the Democrats.”

The bill passed out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in a vote of 8-7, and while it would prohibit presidents and vice presidents from buying, selling or owning stocks, it wouldn’t, Hawley said, apply to the current president and vice president.

Nevertheless, Trump accused Hawley of “sabotage” and claimed the bill was designed to target him.

“I don’t think real Republicans want to see their president, who has had unprecedented success, targeted, because of the ‘whims’ of a second-tier senator named Josh Hawley!”

After the bill passed out of committee, Hawley, in what CBS News described as an “awkward exchange with fellow Republicans on the panel,” defended the bill, with one of his committee colleagues, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), worth millions of dollars.

“I practice what I preach,” Hawley said. “I don’t have individual stocks, I don’t trade in stocks. I’m not a billionaire, unlike others on this committee. And what I think is, the American people are sending us a clear message.”