Ro me the Money! How the congressman insider who campaigns against ‘the rich’ is…stinking rich!

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.), a progressive Silicon Valley congressman positioning himself as a potential Democratic presidential contender, has built a political brand around denouncing billionaires, hedge funds, and the hoarding of dynastic wealth. But a Washington Free Beacon investigation reveals a stark gap between his rhetoric and his reality.

Khanna and his family live a life of extraordinary luxury, funded in part by his wife Ritu Ahuja Khanna’s inheritance from her father, Cleveland auto parts magnate Monte Ahuja — and managed through the very same trusts, anonymous corporations, and financial structures that Khanna criticizes on the campaign trail.

Keeping it in the family

The family’s current Washington, D.C., home is a $6 million, 8,000-square-foot residence featuring a four-story elevator and marble counters even in the laundry rooms — currently listed for sale as the family prepares to move to an even larger property in McLean, Virginia. Meanwhile, Khanna’s wife drives a $190,000 Range Rover, and his two minor children hold ownership stakes in three private golf clubs, a significant interest in a $65 billion wealth management firm, and investments in the kind of distressed-debt hedge funds Khanna has publicly condemned.

The family’s combined assets, disclosed across 333 pages of financial filings, are estimated to be worth anywhere from $103 million to well over $340 million. And despite Khanna’s vocal support for banning congressional stock trading — calling it a threat to democratic confidence — trusts controlled by his wife and children made over 4,100 individual trades totaling an estimated $53 million in 2025 alone, making him the most prolific stock trader in Congress by a wide margin.

In the end, the article below makes one thing crystal clear: Ro Khanna has mastered the oldest trick in American politics — performing outrage at a system he is personally, lavishly, and enthusiastically profiting from. The oligarchs he thunders against on cable news are, by any honest measure, his own family.

‘Ro’ Me the Money! How Progressive Class Warrior Ro Khanna Lives Like the Oligarchs He ‘Fights,’ With In-Home Elevator, $190K Range Rover, and Family-Owned Golf Courses.