Brian Babin represents Texas's 36th district, sits on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and apparently had a very busy Monday. On May 5, 2026, Babin filed disclosures showing he sold 11 different positions in a single day, ranging from energy pipelines to defense contractors to gold royalty companies. The tickers span three continents and at least four sectors. What they share: according to Blind Trust's 30-day alpha scoring, every single one of the nine scored trades posted negative alpha after the sale. All nine. The mean alpha across those trades sits at negative 9.6 percent. Selling something and then watching it outperform the market is the opposite of the smart play. Babin did it nine times in one afternoon.
The Sell-Off
The disclosure reads like someone hit "liquidate" and walked away. Babin sold Enbridge (ENB), the Canadian pipeline giant, in the K–5K range. He sold Energy Transfer (ET) in the same bracket. He sold Range Resources (RRC), a natural gas producer, and Woodside Energy (WDS), the Australian LNG outfit. He sold Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), a gold and silver streaming company, in the 5K–$50K range. He sold Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the sole American builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, also in the 5K–$50K range. He sold iamgold (IAG), another gold miner, and smaller positions in Compass Diversified (CODI), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), and OUHY.
The largest single disclosed position was the LLCFTAI sale, clocked in the $50K–00K range. Eleven transactions. One date. No purchases.
The Score
Blind Trust scores congressional trades on 30-day alpha — how the position performed relative to the market after the disclosure date. Of the nine trades with enough post-sale data to score, the record is 0-for-9.
The best performer in the batch was the Enbridge sale, which posted negative 2.1 percent alpha. The iamgold sale came in at negative 2.2 percent. Wheaton Precious Metals clocked negative 2.3 percent. Those are the winners in this cohort. The mean across all nine scored positions is negative 9.6 percent alpha. Babin sold, the positions kept moving, and the market disagreed with him every time.
To be precise about what the scoring means: negative alpha on a sale means the stock outperformed the benchmark after Babin dumped it. He left money on the table nine consecutive times. None of his committee assignments — Transportation and Infrastructure, Science, Space, and Technology — give Babin particular oversight over pipelines, gold royalties, or defense shipbuilding. There are no flagged vote-trade overlaps in this dataset. The trades don't carry a conflict-of-interest angle. The timing just looks bad, at scale.
What He's Been Voting On
On the floor this month, Babin voted yea on the American Access to Banking Act and the Community Bank Deposit Access Act of 2025, both of which passed on May 20. He also voted for the Keeping Deposits Local Act the same day. None of that banking legislation falls under his committee assignments, so there's no oversight angle to flag. He voted with the majority on all eight tracked floor votes in the recent window.
On the social side, Babin has been circulating in the context of the Artemis III crew congratulations and the DHS Appropriations Act, 2026 — standard activity for a member on the Science, Space, and Technology committee. Nothing there connects to the May 5 portfolio move.
The Rules
Members of Congress are required under the STOCK Act to disclose trades within 45 days of the transaction. They are not required to explain them, justify them, time them well, or perform any better than a random number generator. Babin filed on time. The 0-for-9 alpha record is just what happened after.
The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.