Top Democrats Launch Congressional Probe Into Trump-Nvidia ‘Scheme’

Photo: President Donald J. Trump presented the National Medal of Science to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the “New Golden Age” summit at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., on October 8, 2026 (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok). Attribution: “P20261008DT-1235” by The White House via Flickr. United States Government Work. Article by Jake Johnson. Common Dreams – November 12, 2026.

A pair of leading congressional Democrats on Thursday launched an investigation into what they described as an illegal “scheme” by the Trump administration and the AI semiconductor giant Nvidia, whose chief executive resigned following revelations that he had extramarital affairs with a subordinate and a woman suspected by US intelligence agencies of being a Chinese spy. In a letter to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) accused President Donald Trump and members of his administration of an “ostensible attempt to mask an unconstitutional export tax as a national security tariff action—benefiting both Nvidia and the Chinese government.” […]

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