Warren, Coons Demand Trump Officials Preserve Nvidia-China Records

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Coons have told three senior Trump officials to hold onto every document tied to Nvidia's chip exports to China and to the alleged affair between CEO Jensen Huang and a suspected Chinese intelligence asset, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The letter went Wednesday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House chief of staff Stephen Miller. The senators asked the officials to preserve all documents "regarding the export of NVIDIA's advanced AI chips to China or to entities that may divert such chips to China," along with communications about Huang, the suspected operative and any correspondence between Huang and President Trump. They gave the three until Tuesday to confirm the hold.

The senators wrote that "Reports suggest that officials within the government – including at the White House, State Department, and Commerce Department – were aware of concerns about NVIDIA, its relationship with (Alice Huang's company) Megaspeed, and the suspected Chinese intelligence operation, yet did not move to block the continued flow of advanced AI chips to Megaspeed or other companies affiliated with the suspected operative."

"This incident raises significant concerns about the federal government's ability to effectively enforce our export controls and protect our national security," the letter said. Warren and Coons also asked for a congressional briefing on the national-security risks of the suspected operation.

The preservation request landed the same day Nvidia's board was meeting to discuss Huang's future, and it is the kind of letter that typically precedes a formal congressional investigation. It is one of a run of related alerts we have tracked this week, including the earlier Bessent-Lutnick clash over Megaspeed's entity-list delay.