Earlier Thursday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told reporters that Lutnick should appear voluntarily, though if he doesn’t, “He may need to be subpoenaed.”

Blumenthal said one thing he wants to know is, “Were export controls relaxed?”

Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., said in an interview with Fox News that he’d like Lutnick to testify before Congress “ASAP,” noting concerns about chips being exported that should not have.

“We have a lot of bipartisan questions and concerns about what’s happened over the last year that would allow some of these issues to continue, to chips being exported, it appears, to defy President Trump’s orders for those exports to be stopped,” Banks said.

Huang’s extramarital activity has added to concerns that Nvidia chips may have been smuggled or illegally accessed by AI companies in China. Nvidia has said that it complies with U.S. laws on exports.

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