January 1, Betrayal Deepens as GOP Rep Virginia Foxx Holds Opioid and Coal Stocks Amid NC Overdose Crisis

Wyatt’s Take

• Virginia Foxx is holding shares in opioid and coal companies while North Carolina suffers record overdose deaths and hundreds of mine safety violations.
• Foxx’s financial ties raise serious questions about whose interests she truly represents in Congress.
• Working families in the heartland are paying the price while politicians play both sides.

A ‘lost generation’ is how health officials describe the young North Carolinians dying from opioid overdoses at record rates.

At the same time, Virginia Foxx continues to hold investments in companies that manufacture opioid products and operate coal mines with hundreds of safety violations.

NEW: Virginia Foxx, a multi-millionaire and one of Congress’s most active stock traders, was just appointed chair of the House labor committee, now renamed the "Education and Workforce" panel. Foxx will oversee an array of companies whose stocks she owns. https://t.co/mFwKPR4jqx

— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) January 10, 2023

The Mine Safety and Health Administration’s final silica rule is reckless and unworkable and was pushed through without proper stakeholder consideration. @virginiafoxx’s statement⤵️ https://t.co/e5YfJnJxEL

— House Committee on Education & Workforce (@EdWorkforceCmte) April 16, 2024

House Rules Chair @virginiafoxx tells 535 one proposed rule change for the next Congress had “a lot of support”: kicking the press out of the Speaker’s Lobby. “People are very irritated about the press being right off the floor.” https://t.co/NVPNEevbo2

— 535 News (@the535news) September 16, 2026

Records show Foxx’s portfolio includes shares in pharmaceutical firms tied to the opioid crisis that has devastated rural communities across the state.

Her coal investments connect to mining operations facing hundreds of mine safety penalties, many in the very regions hardest hit by economic decline and drug deaths.

Local families who once relied on coal jobs now watch their children succumb to addiction while their elected officials maintain financial stakes in the companies involved.

The crisis has left entire communities hollowed out, with funeral homes reporting more young deaths than natural causes.

Foxx’s continued holdings in these industries come as North Carolina ranks among the hardest-hit states in the ongoing opioid epidemic.

Many affected families feel abandoned by the very people elected to protect their interests and way of life.

The pattern of politicians maintaining financial interests in the industries causing harm to their constituents continues to erode trust in Washington.

Wyatt Matters

Middle America expects its representatives to stand with working families, not maintain financial ties to the very problems destroying communities from the inside out.