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Senator Lindsay Graham spent 30+ years in Congress and had a net worth of about $1.5 million, While Ro Khanna has been in the House for less than 10 years and is worth more than $232 million. Critics saying the vast wealth difference is evidence that some in Congress - Graham - did not engage in corrupt behavior or insider trading to line his pockets. Graham, the Republican from South Carolina, logged 33 years of total military service including: 🔺️Active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 1982 to 1989 🔺️A JAG officer and prosecutor in Europe 🔺️Time in the South Carolina Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve 🔺️Retired as a colonel in 2015. He earned a Bronze Star Medal in 2014 for legal work supporting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Graham represented South Carolina's 3rd District in the U.S. House from 1995 to 2003 before serving in the Senate from 2003 until his death in July 2026. #SouthCarolina Financial disclosures put Graham's net worth in the range of $1.48 million to around $2 million in recent years, ranking him 293rd out of 535 members of Congress. His assets came primarily from his congressional salary, military pension, and diversified mutual funds rather than high-risk individual stock trades. Meanwhile, California Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna of Fremont has served in the House since January 2017. 🔷️He was worth about $27 million, his wife's inheritance from her father. 🔷️Now he's worth more than $232.7 million, owns luxury properties including an 8,000-square-foot D.C. mansion valued around $6 million, three private golf clubs, wealth management firms, and hedge funds. 🔷️Khanna's family disclosures reveal extensive stock trading: tens of thousands of trades with hundreds of millions in volume through trusts managed for his wife and children. 🔷️Family/trust involved in over 39,000 trades with $643 million+ volume reported in some trackers. Other notable democrats: 🔷️Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA, entered 1987) From $610,000 to $280 Million + 🔷️Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA, entered Jan 2019) -$12,500 net worth in 2018 to $8 Million in 2024 🔷️Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA, entered 2009) $92,000 to over $7 million by 2018 🔷️Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME, entered 2009) Negative worth to 73,039% jump - with a $40M+ gain reported in one period Christina Aguayo News