For years, Americans have watched members of Congress make suspiciously well-timed stock trades – the kind that would land any regular investor in an SEC interrogation room. Washington runs on a double standard. Everyone knows it. Few bother pretending otherwise.
So when a lawmaker sitting on some of the most sensitive national security committees in Congress – one with personal ties to Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives – offloads shares of a major chipmaker right before a scandal craters the stock price, we’re supposed to just nod along? Hardly.
From the Daily Wire:
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), one of Congress’s most vocal advocates for restricting lawmakers’ stock trading, reported a sale of Nvidia shares before a national security scandal involving the company’s CEO, according to a congressional trade tracker.
An account called Trade With Congress, operated by politician trade-tracker Altoneer, highlighted the sale in Khanna’s disclosures, saying it occurred before reports emerged that CEO Jensen Huang had been involved in a relationship with a woman suspected by U.S. intelligence officials of working for China. Nvidia shares have since come under pressure as the company investigates the allegations and lawmakers demand answers.
Suspicious barely covers it. Khanna isn’t some junior representative with no proximity to this story. He serves on the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party. He’s the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Cyber subcommittee. He belongs to both the Taiwan Caucus and the High Tech Caucus. And – here’s a fun detail – he stood alongside Jensen Huang at Stanford back in April for a cozy public chat about American AI leadership.
Few people in Washington had better access to early rumblings about Nvidia’s China exposure. That’s not speculation. That’s his job description.
Time for answers
Khanna insists his investments sit in a family trust run by an independent trustee. Hands-off, he says. Yet the New York Post reported his family trusts racked up 5,402 trades in 2025 alone, with volume reaching a staggering $165.4 million. For perspective, that’s more trading activity than most hedge fund managers see. Common Cause ranked him the third most profitable congressional trader that year.
Some “independent” arrangement.
Meanwhile, Nvidia hemorrhaged over $427 billion in market value across just two trading sessions after the scandal surfaced. Retirement portfolios across the country absorbed that blow. Khanna, conveniently, had already exited his position.
Accountability isn’t optional
An ordinary American who sold shares ahead of damaging nonpublic information would have federal investigators at the door by morning. Khanna deserves the same scrutiny – not less of it. Congress should open a formal inquiry immediately. The man built his entire brand on demanding transparency from everyone else. Time to hold him to his own standard.
Key Takeaways
- Khanna sold Nvidia shares before a China-linked scandal sent the stock plummeting.
- His committee seats gave him direct access to sensitive national security intelligence on China.
- His family trusts logged 5,402 trades worth up to $165.4 million – hardly a “hands-off” arrangement.
- Congress must investigate before this becomes another case of Washington policing everyone but itself.
Sources: Daily Wire
