Top Republican lawmakers are calling for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to appear before Congress and are urging the administration to halt the sale of the company's advanced artificial intelligence chips to China. These demands follow reports of Huang's alleged affair with an individual identified as a Chinese spy, raising concerns about compromised U.S. national security.
Three House committee chairmen—Reps. Brian Mast, John Moolenaar, and Rick Crawford—have written to Huang requesting his appearance in a closed-door meeting on November 18. They stated that recent reports "raise significant national security concerns regarding the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China] access to sensitive U.S. technology and information" and emphasized the need to determine the extent to which U.S. national security has been jeopardized. They also requested information on Huang's security protocols regarding foreign espionage and his interactions with Alice Huang.
Separately, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, called on social media for an immediate pause on the shipment of advanced AI chips to China until the incident can be fully investigated and national security is ensured. The House Foreign Affairs Committee is advancing legislation that would grant Congress a 30-day review period to block sales of advanced chips to adversarial nations, a power similar to that for arms sales. This legislation would also revoke existing export licenses to countries like China until a detailed strategy is submitted on how these chips might impact military and intelligence capabilities.
Nvidia has declined to comment on the matter. The Trump administration had approved the limited sale of advanced AI chips to select Chinese companies in December 2025. Reports indicate that Alice Huang, a former executive at a tech company that purchased significant AI chip volumes from Nvidia, was allegedly recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security. Her former company is reportedly under investigation for potentially aiding in the smuggling of advanced Nvidia GPUs into China to bypass U.S. export restrictions.
According to reports, the U.S. government receives a 25% share of Nvidia chip sales to Chinese companies through an agreement facilitated by Jensen Huang with the Trump administration. The Commerce Department had approved approximately two dozen Chinese firms to handle or purchase these processors. Jensen Huang had personally lobbied former President Trump to approve these sales.
Former President Trump has publicly defended Huang, calling him an "honorable guy" and a "fine person" who has "done an amazing job for our country." Jensen Huang has admitted to infidelity in his marriage of over forty years, and Nvidia is conducting an internal investigation.