Nancy Pelosi, the 85-year-old former House Speaker and long-time California congresswoman, announced her retirement from Congress at the end of her current term in January 2027 after 37 years of service starting in 1987. During her tenure, with an annual salary of around $223,500, she and her husband Paul amassed approximately $133 million in stock profits through trades that yielded an astonishing 16,930% return, vastly outperforming the Dow Jones and every major hedge fund.
Critics point to suspicious timing of these trades, such as massive gains in tech stocks like Nvidia and Visa just before key legislation or market events that benefited those companies, fueling widespread accusations of insider trading using privileged information from her powerful position.
Her portfolio’s explosive growth, including a 70% increase in 2024 alone that doubled Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway performance, has sparked outrage over congressional corruption and self-enrichment at taxpayer expense. This scandal has inspired proposals like the PELOSI Act to ban stock trading by members of Congress, highlighting how politicians enter office modestly wealthy but retire as multimillionaires through what many call legalized graft. Investigations into her trades have been demanded, with some estimating her net worth now exceeds $250 million, underscoring the urgent need to drain the swamp of such unethical practices.
