Jensen Huang agrees to testify before Congress by Thanksgiving

Nov 12, 2026
The former Nvidia CEO will brief House committees behind closed doors after lawmakers threatened to subpoena him, House Foreign Affairs chair Brian Mast said.

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has agreed to testify before Congress, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Brian Mast said on Thursday, TechCrunch reported, citing Bloomberg and NBC News. Huang agreed on Wednesday, after several senior lawmakers threatened to subpoena him, and is to testify before Thanksgiving later this month.

On 4 November, Mast, John Moolenaar and Rick Crawford, who chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the House Intelligence Committee, wrote to Huang asking him to appear. The session will be held behind closed doors, though Mast said he expects it to be recorded on video and transcribed.

"Jensen and I have been very at odds as some of you already know on export controls, but Nvidia is a very important company to the United States of America," Mast told reporters. "I don't want to see anything hurt in Nvidia, but he has some very serious questions to answer." Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO on Thursday after reports of an affair with a woman suspected of spying for China.

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