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Which Members of Congress Own SpaceX?

Coldpine Research · Jul 6

SpaceX went public on June 12, 2026, listing under the ticker SPCX in one of the most anticipated IPOs in years. For almost its entire life it was private, reachable only through insiders and pre-IPO funds, which makes the members of Congress who already owned a piece worth a look. At least two have disclosed SpaceX holdings, and the timing tells two different stories: one got in before the IPO, the other bought once it started trading. Here they are, straight from their STOCK Act filings.

MemberTypeAmountTrade dateStake
John McGuire
House · VA
buy$1,001 - $15,000Jun 15Post-IPO · SPCX
Daniel Meuser
House · PA
buy$15,001 - $50,000Jun 15Post-IPO · SPCX
John James
House · MI
buy$15,001 - $50,000Jun 12Post-IPO · SPCX
Lisa McClain
House · MI
buy$100,001 - $250,000Sep 12Pre-IPO · private

One got in before the IPO, one bought after

The interesting part isn’t just that these members own SpaceX, but when they bought. A purchase dated before June 12, 2026 is a pre-IPO stake: the member held private SpaceX stock, bought through a secondary market or a pre-IPO fund back when ordinary investors couldn’t touch it. A purchase on or after that date is public SPCX shares, bought on the open market like any other listed stock, in the window right around the debut. And SpaceX isn’t the only Musk company in these filings: one of these members has also disclosed a stake in xAI, his private AI company.

How to buy SpaceX now

Before the June 2026 IPO, you generally couldn’t, at least not directly. Shares changed hands only through secondary markets, employee sales, or pooled pre-IPO vehicles that held private stock. That has changed: SpaceX now trades publicly as SPCX, so it’s available to anyone on the open market, and future Congressional trades in it will be ordinary public-stock disclosures.

Why there’s no Coldpine score on it yet

Coldpine scores every trade for signal strength and measures each disclosed purchase against the S&P over the following 90 days. SPCX only began trading on June 12, 2026, so there isn’t yet a full window of price history to measure these trades against, and the pre-IPO stake had no public price at all. As SPCX builds a trading record, its trades will be scored like any other public stock. See how the scoring works.

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Coldpine is a publisher of intelligence on public Congressional disclosures. Amounts are the disclosed ranges from STOCK Act filings, not position sizes or profit-and-loss. This is informational only, not investment advice, and not a suggestion to buy, sell, or copy anyone’s trades.