Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif.) household traded the most frequently — 4,772 times — and the most expensive assets last year, totaling $65.9 million, per Quiver Quantitative.
The Silicon Valley-based rep’s portfolio of trades appears to be heavily diversified across industrial, tech, financial, health care, and other sectors.
“I do not own or trade stocks and have led the fight to ban stock trading,” Khanna claimed on social media last month.
“My household’s only investments are in a trust that my in-laws set up before marriage, managed independently by a third party trustee in full compliance with the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and House Rules.”
Khanna also penned a detailed Substack explaining his family’s finances and underscoring that his “household’s compliance has been independently verified by the watchdogs who track congressional trading.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband is perhaps the most infamous spouse of a sitting lawmaker to engage in stock trading. AP Photo/Allison Robbert
Perhaps the most notorious sitting lawmaker for stock trades is Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), whose husband, Paul, made a fortune over the practice.
Pelosi’s household is listed as having made $52,525,000 worth of trades over the past year, spanning 21 occasions.
“Speaker Pelosi does not own any stocks and has no knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions,” her spokesperson, Ian Krager, told The Post.
The former speaker has publicly backed efforts to restrict congressional stock trading since 2022 after initially defending the practice.
“We are a free market economy. They should be able to participate in that,” the former House speaker told a reporter five years ago when pressed on the fortune her husband has amassed trading stocks while she’s in office.
Rep. Michael McCaul previously explained that a third-party manager oversaw his family’s trading.
The retiring former Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) family, moved some $48 million worth of assets across 980 different trades.
McCaul’s team has previously addressed controversy over his family’s stock trading, noting that his “wife has assets she solely owns, and a third-party manager” makes purchases “without her direction.”
The Post reached out to the congressman’s office for comment.
Most of the stocks in his portfolio appear to be significantly diversified, including in the financial, tech, and health care sectors.
Rep. Tony Wied’s (R-Wis.) household moved some $25.9 million across 19 different trades, with most of the assets coming from the tech sector.
Wied has backed the Stop Insider Trading Act, but argued it should’ve gone further to prevent potential corruption on Capitol Hill.
“I plan to support this symbolic gesture when it comes to a vote, but let’s be real — insider trading is already entirely illegal,” Wied told The Post.
“If my colleagues on both sides of the aisle were serious about solving the actual problem, we would have gone much further with this legislation and addressed the real issue plaguing the swamp: career politicians using their connections and insider knowledge to enrich themselves as lobbyists and federal contractors after leaving office.”
Rep. Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.) and his family were listed as moving some $12 million on over 1,128 occasions, which included investments in tech, health care and industrials.
“My wife and I have always employed outside financial advisors who have a fiduciary responsibility to maintain a diverse portfolio,” Cisneros told The Post. “We do not manage the day-to-day trading of our investment portfolio, nor have we ever suggested a trade while serving in Congress or at the Department of Defense.”
Cisneros further stressed that he has “always complied with all rules and regulations regarding stock trading and financial disclosures” and backs stronger ethics measures.
