Maria Elvira Salazar sits on the House Financial Services Committee. That's the committee that writes the laws for banks, insurance companies, housing finance, and the stock market itself.
Within it, she sits on three subcommittees: the Subcommittee on Capital Markets — the panel whose written jurisdiction covers "securities, including retirement savings plans and products, exchanges, and finance" and "the Securities and Exchange Commission" — the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, whose jurisdiction is "insurance generally," and the Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions.
Between March and July of this year, she reported 67 stock transactions.
You don't have to take our word for any of this. She signed the forms herself, and they're public.
What she bought
Here is what her own periodic transaction reports filed with the Clerk of the House show, month by month.
March 19–25, 2026 — 25 transactions in one week, filed April 21. Among them:
| Company | What it is |
|---|---|
| Goldman Sachs | Investment bank — two purchases, each $15,001–$50,000 |
| Citigroup | Bank — two purchases, up to $50,000 |
| NVR, Inc. | One of the country's largest homebuilders |
| Boeing, Cisco, Corning, FedEx, GE Aerospace, Honeywell, Whirlpool, Ulta Beauty, Peloton, RH, United Rentals, Amgen, Venture Global | The rest of that week |
April 2026 — 12 more, filed May 8: Microsoft, Marvell, Salesforce, Sherwin-Williams, Carrier Global, UnitedHealth Group, United Rentals, Voyager Technologies, plus an Amgen sale.
May 2026 — 14 more, filed June 8: IBM, Qualcomm, Datadog, Brookfield Renewable, and $50,001–$100,000 of Biogen in one purchase — her single largest reported trade of the year. She sold the Sherwin-Williams she'd bought three weeks earlier, and the Whirlpool she'd bought in March.
June 2026 — 10 more, filed July 7: she sold the Biogen she'd bought three weeks earlier, sold UnitedHealth, and bought Brookfield Renewable six separate times in three days.
July 2026 — 6 more, filed August 7: she bought Chubb Limited, one of the largest commercial insurers in the world, twice — up to $50,000 each time. She bought Berkshire Hathaway and sold the Carrier Global she'd bought in May.
Read that last one again
Salazar sits on the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance. On July 1, she bought an insurance company.
She sits on the Subcommittee on Capital Markets. In March, she bought Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
We are not saying she traded on inside information. We have no evidence of that, and we're not going to claim it. The point is simpler and it doesn't require any: a member of Congress should not be able to place a bet on a company whose rules she helps write. Everybody can see the problem. She is the one person in the room who can't seem to.
She has been caught on this before
This is the part that makes it more than a bad look.
In April 2020, when Salazar was running against Democrat Donna Shalala, she attacked Shalala for a stock disclosure problem, writing that her opponent "violates and skirts federal law with her own finances."
Then she got to Congress and did the same thing. Business Insider reported in June 2022 that Salazar was more than two months late disclosing a stock transaction in health care company Cano Health worth up to $500,000, in apparent violation of the STOCK Act — the law her opponent had been accused of breaking. Her spokesperson called it a "unique financial occurrence."
It happened again. Raw Story reported in 2023 that she filed late a second time.
She is one of 45 Republicans we cover who have broken that law.
To her credit, the five reports above appear to have been filed on time. The STOCK Act gives members 45 days from the trade, and every one of these landed inside that window. The law worked exactly as designed — which is how we know all of this. That is also the whole of what the law does. It requires her to tell you. It does not require her to stop.
Four bills would stop it. She's signed none of them.
Four of the bills before the House would end congressional stock trading. We checked the cosponsor list on every one:
- TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 396) — would force members, spouses and dependent children into blind trusts. 103 cosponsors. Not Salazar.
- Restore Trust in Congress Act (H.R. 5106) — led by Republican Chip Roy of Texas. 142 cosponsors, both parties. Not Salazar.
- End Congressional Stock Trading Act (H.R. 1908) — from Republican Tim Burchett of Tennessee. Not Salazar.
- ETHICS Act (H.R. 4890) — Not Salazar.
A hundred and forty-three members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats, have put their name on the Restore Trust in Congress Act — Chip Roy plus his 142 cosponsors. The member from Florida's 27th District, who made 67 trades in five months while sitting on the committee that regulates the market, is not one of them.
She did vote for a weaker version. On July 22, 2026, the House passed Bryan Steil's Stop Insider Trading Act, H.R. 7008, by 232 to 198, and Salazar voted yes. That bill would bar members from making new stock purchases and require a week's public notice before a sale — but it would not make anyone sell what they already hold, and it is still sitting in the Senate. Six days after casting that vote, she bought Berkshire Hathaway twice.
Why this matters in FL-27
Salazar has built her brand in Miami on delivering — ribbon-cuttings, oversized checks, press releases. Her district runs from Little Havana out to Coral Gables and Palmetto Bay. It is not a wealthy district end to end.
Three months before she started buying Goldman Sachs, the House passed a health bill that left the expiring tax credits to lapse and premiums to climb. She voted for it. She is one of the 197 Republicans who voted to spike ACA premiums.
Her constituents got the bill. She got the brokerage statement.
The bills that would actually make her sell take one signature. Her name is missing from all four.
We deserve better.
Sources
Periodic Transaction Reports of Hon. Maria Elvira Salazar, FL-27, filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives: filing IDs 20033993, 20034479, 20034709, 20034928, 20035138.
Committee and subcommittee assignments from Rep. Salazar's own House website. Cosponsor lists from Congress.gov. Photo: U.S. House of Representatives, via Wikimedia Commons.
