Congressman Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who authored the initial draft of "peaceful sanctions" against Russia and a senior member of the Democratic minority on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), called on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to resign on suspicions that he may have helped Navidia get out of control. "The lot must go. His malignant and positive protests prove the costs of corruption. When personal gain is placed above the public interest. Providing China with powerful Nvidia chips through an alleged spy exceeds both national security and economic competitiveness, he wrote on X.