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To put the results into perspective, the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned roughly 14% in 2025. The S&P 500 climbed about 17%. The Nasdaq posted a solid 21% gain. Suozzi beat them all by a wide margin.
Financial analysts say much of Suozzi’s success came from a massive bet on Nvidia, a stock that surged roughly 40% during the year. His reported $8.2 million position in the chipmaker ballooned his total stock holdings to approximately $9.5 million by year’s end.
That represents a gain of roughly $2.5 million in just twelve months.
“Some members seemed to spend more time managing their portfolios than they did at their day job on Capitol Hill,” Quiver Quantitative CEO Christopher Kardatzke told The New York Post.
Pelosi’s Slide Comes as She Nears Retirement
Pelosi’s 18% return marked a sharp drop from her performance in 2024, when her portfolio reportedly jumped more than 50% and outperformed nearly every major hedge fund in the country.
Her decline in 2025 was tied in part to a large investment in Salesforce, a position valued at roughly $12 million that fell close to 20% over the year.
The timing is notable. Pelosi has already announced that she plans to retire from Congress at the end of her term in January 2027. With her departure approaching, the loss of her stock trading crown adds another symbolic blow to a career already defined by controversy over congressional investing.
Suozzi’s Record Raises Serious Questions
While Suozzi’s gains are impressive on paper, his trading history is loaded with baggage.
Ethics watchdogs have repeatedly flagged the New York Democrat for violating stock disclosure rules. Between 2017 and 2020, Suozzi reportedly failed to disclose as many as 300 trades worth up to $11 million.
One purchase made in September 2017 was not reported until March 2022, nearly five years late.
Federal law under the STOCK Act requires members of Congress to disclose stock trades within 45 days.
Suozzi brushed aside concerns during a 2022 House Ethics Committee hearing.
“Quite frankly, we have a lot going on in Congress. I have a lot of other stuff going on,” Suozzi told the committee.
“Ethics is a big priority for me. But the… some of the formalities are not necessarily something I make a priority of,” he added.
Those comments raised eyebrows, especially given Suozzi’s role on House subcommittees that oversee tax policy and government oversight.
His Republican challenger, Greg Hach, did not hold back.
“Tom Suozzi got rich in Congress, while his constituents got poorer,” Hach told The Post.
“If that doesn’t say it all, nothing does,” he added.
A Familiar Excuse from Democrats
Suozzi’s chief of staff has claimed that the congressman supports banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks.
That line sounds familiar to critics.
Pelosi used nearly identical language after years of defending congressional stock trading, once infamously declaring, “we are a free market economy.”
During the 2024 campaign, President Trump repeatedly called out Pelosi’s trading record, accusing her of using “inside information” to beat professional investors.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt highlighted the disparity between Pelosi’s salary and her wealth.
“In 2024, Nancy Pelosi’s stock portfolio grew 70% in one year,” Leavitt told reporters in July 2025.
Pelosi earns $174,000 a year. Her estimated net worth sits around $413 million.
The Gravy Train Under Fire
Now Pelosi cannot even claim to be the Democrats’ top stock trader.
Suozzi has taken that title, playing the same game with even fewer apologies and an even shakier ethics record.
Republicans say enough is enough. Party leaders have promised to bring legislation banning congressional stock trading to a vote in early 2026.
The real question is whether Democrats who have profited handsomely from the system will finally vote to shut it down.
For voters watching from the outside, one thing is clear. Washington’s stock market kings and queens keep winning, no matter which party holds the gavel.
