Ranking Member Raskin Opens Sweeping Investigation into “U.S. Special Envoy for Peace” Jared Kushner’s Foreign Entanglements and Staggering Conflicts of Interest

Washington, D.C. (April 17, 2026)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, opened a sweeping investigation into Jared Kushner’s financial conflicts of interest, demanding documents and communications related to his foreign-funded private investment firm and his simultaneous government service as the so-called “Special Envoy for Peace.” The inquiry comes amid mounting reports that Mr. Kushner is wielding diplomatic powers in the Middle East while fundraising billions of dollars in capital from foreign powers, whose interests diverge sharply from those of the American people.

“From the standpoint of the American people, your decision to act in these two roles—one public for the government and one private for personal profit—creates a glaring and incurable conflict of interest. Your clients Saudi Arabia and the Royal Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman have unique and significant strategic, economic and political interests that are certain to diverge sharply from the strategic, economic and political interests of the American people,” wrote Ranking Member Raskin.

Mr. Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity Partners, has amassed approximately $6.16 billion in assets under management—including $1.2 billion in the past year alone—with an extraordinary 99 percent of its funding derived from foreign nationals. These include sovereign wealth funds operated by the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. At the same time, Mr. Kushner has assumed a central role in sensitive geopolitical negotiations across the Middle East and beyond.

Despite explicit public assurances that he would avoid both government service and fundraising during President Trump’s second term, Mr. Kushner has done precisely the opposite. He has inserted himself into the world’s most volatile global conflicts as one of the United States’ chief negotiators all while deepening his financial reliance on, and entanglement with, foreign governments.

The ongoing war with Iran illustrates the profound dangers of this arrangement. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—Mr. Kushner’s largest financial backer—has advocated for escalation, including attacks on Iranian infrastructure and the potential deployment of U.S. troops. These positions are in stark tension with the interests of the American people, raising anxiety that Mr. Kushner’s financial dependence on the oil monarchies could distort U.S. foreign policy at the highest levels.

Mr. Kushner’s recent conduct follows a well-established pattern of exploiting his status as Donald Trump’s son-in-law on behalf of his personal moneymaking schemes. Immediately after departing the White House in 2021, he secured a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, despite strong internal objections from Saudi officials raising his lack of investment experience. The timing and scale of this investment have long raised questions about whether it constituted a reward for prior official actions taken while serving in the Trump Administration.

In 2022, House Democrats launched an initial investigation into this conduct but Affinity refused to cooperate with the investigation. And, as the then-Ranking Member of the Oversight Committee, Ranking Member Raskin investigated Mr. Kushner over the billions of dollars his investment firm received from Gulf monarchies, including $2 billion from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, and possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). 

Now, with Mr. Kushner reemerging as a central diplomatic figure while continuing to profit from foreign state-backed investments, Judiciary Democrats are moving to uncover the full extent of these overlapping roles.

“You cannot both be a diplomat and a financial pawn of the Saudi monarchy at the same time,” wrote Ranking Member Raskin. “You cannot faithfully represent the United States with billions of dollars in Saudi and Emirati cash burning a hole in every pocket of every suit you own.” 

Ranking Member Raskin is requesting records related to Mr. Kushner’s communications with foreign officials, financial backers, and U.S. government entities as part of an ongoing Judiciary Committee investigation into potential violations of federal ethics, bribery, and foreign agent laws.

Click here to read the letter.