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Lawmakers Bet Big on These 3 Stocks—Should You?

Written by Jessica Mitacek. Posted: 4/22/2026.

A large share of members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires, but it’s highly unlikely any of them reached that level of net worth solely on a lawmaker's salary. While the base pay for a senator or representative is a respectable $174,000 per year, that is still far from the kind of income that typically builds a seven-figure net worth on its own.

Rather, many elected officials have been very active in the markets, logging hundreds if not thousands of trades each year.

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In 2025, for instance, Representative Ro Khanna (D-California) made 4,555 trades totaling nearly $63 million in volume. Representative Michael T. McCaul (R-Texas) wasn’t far behind, with 1,057 trades totaling nearly $62 million in volume.

Numerous efforts to curtail congressional stock trading have been proposed, but many of those bills stall and are never enacted.

Meanwhile, exchange-traded funds tracking these trades—like the Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (BATS: NANC)—highlight an impressive feat: despite more than 94% of actively managed funds failing to beat the S&P 500 over 20 years, members of Congress appear to do so with ease.

For investors looking to potentially capitalize on that phenomenon, here are the top three stocks that have been bought by U.S. lawmakers according to mandatory disclosure filings made in the past 90 days.

Representatives Are Benefitting From Netflix’s Big Bounce

At the top of the list of most-popular stocks for members of Congress is communication-services giant Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX).

The stock has received bipartisan support over the past three months, with nine buys from four representatives resulting in $163,500 in inflows.

After hitting its all-time high in June 2025, NFLX’s widely covered sell-off saw shares fall by more than 43%. Since the stock’s year-to-date (YTD) low on Feb. 12, it has rallied nearly 42%—roughly the gain Representative McCaul has seen since purchasing shares on Feb. 17, a trade he disclosed on March 10.

Fundamentally, Netflix was due for a rebound. It was severely oversold despite revenue growth of nearly 16% in both 2024 and 2025, and those years saw earnings growth of about 65% and 28%, respectively, indicating strong financial performance even as the shares swooned.

Wall Street is bullish on the streaming giant: 36 of the 50 analysts who cover the stock assign it a Buy rating, and the high-end price target implies more than 60% potential upside.

Broadcom’s Rally Was Preceded by Heavy Congressional Buying

By sheer dollar volume, Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) has been one of the most popular stocks among members of Congress.

Over the past 90 days, the semiconductor and infrastructure-software company saw members of both parties buy $3,080,500 of its stock across eight trades.

The timing of those purchases proved fortuitous. Over the past month, AVGO is up nearly 30%, and since the stock’s YTD low on March 30 it has gained more than 35%.

The recent rally was driven in part by news that Broadcom expanded its deal with Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) to produce custom AI chips, extended a deal with Google through 2031 to develop Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), and will provide Anthropic access to roughly 3.5 gigawatts of TPU-based AI compute capacity beginning in 2027.

Representative Tony Wied (R-Wisconsin) purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of Broadcom stock on Feb. 19. That trade, disclosed on March 9, leaves the lawmaker’s position up nearly 19% since the purchase.

Congress Is Placing a Big Bet on a Legacy Banking Stock

Over the past 90 days, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) saw eight Congressional trades resulting in $304,500 in inflows from both sides of the aisle. This includes a large Feb. 19 purchase by Representative Khanna—disclosed on March 9—for between $100,001 and $250,000.

Since then, the 225-year-old bank's shares have been mostly flat.

However, after reporting beats on the top and bottom lines for Q1 2026 on April 14, the stock’s forward P/E of around 14 suggests it could be undervalued at current levels, particularly given that analysts forecast earnings growth of more than 7% over the next year.

The financials sector has been under pressure this year, producing the weakest YTD performance among the S&P 500’s 11 sectors. With major banks reporting strong earnings and record revenues as earnings season gets underway, members of Congress may be positioning themselves for a potential rebound in JPM.