2020s
The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Administration Cancels $500 Million in Food Aid, Affecting 94 Million Pounds Trump Administration · USDA · Food Banks | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Administration Freezes $88 Million for Human Trafficking Survivors Trump Administration · Trafficking Survivor Organizations · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Family's USD1 Stablecoin Fails to Publish Attestation Reports, Raising Transparency Concerns World Liberty Financial · NYDIG · Greg Cipolaro · BitGo Trust · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-05 | White House Blocks $2.1 Billion Chicago Transit Funding as Political Retaliation Trump Administration · White House · City of Chicago · City of Portland | reported | |
| 2025-10-04 | Pirro's DC Office Dismisses 21% of Cases in 8 Weeks vs 0.5% Over Previous Decade Jeanine Pirro · Zia Faruqui · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-04 | Trump Targets Corporate Deals Across 30+ Industries Before Midterm Elections Trump Administration · Pfizer · Eli Lilly · AstraZeneca · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-04 | Two Senior Virginia Prosecutors Purged After Resisting Political Prosecutions Lindsey Halligan · James Comey · Letitia James · Eastern District of Virginia · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | OMB Director Russ Vought Uses Shutdown to Execute Mass Federal Purges Russ Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | Supreme Court Uses Emergency Docket to Expand Presidential Power U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Conservative Supreme Court Majority | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | DHS and CMS Share Personal Data of 79 Million Medicaid Patients With ICE U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · State Attorneys General Coalition | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | DOJ Fires Top National Security Prosecutor Michael Ben'Ary Based on False Social Media Post Michael Ben'Ary · Department of Justice · Julie Kelly · U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Virginia · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | Pope Leo XIV: Inhuman Treatment of Immigrants 'Not Pro-Life' Pope Leo XIV · Trump Administration · White House · Senator Dick Durbin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-01 | ProPublica: Trump Ambassador Ronald Johnson Shielded El Salvador's Bukele From Law Enforcement Ronald Johnson · Nayib Bukele · State Department · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | Trump Administration Fires Federal Employees During Government Shutdown, Courts Order Reinstatement as Unions Win Injunctions AFGE · AFSCME · Donald Trump · Judge Susan Illston · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-01 | Trump Notifies Congress of 'Non-International Armed Conflict' with 'Unlawful Combatants' in Caribbean Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Jack Reed | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-01 | VA Awards Palantir $385M Contract for Veterans Data Platform Integrating HHS, DoD, SSA, and IRS Data Palantir · Department of Veterans Affairs · Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Defense · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-01 | White House Defunds Council of Inspectors General, Disabling Federal Oversight Office of Management and Budget · Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency · White House · Susan Collins · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-30 | ICE Awards $1.4 Billion in Surveillance Contracts in Single Month, Highest in 18 Years U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | reported | |
| 2025-09-30 | SpaceX and xAI Purchase Thousands of Unsold Cybertrucks Before Tax Credit Deadline SpaceX · xAI · Tesla · Elon Musk | reported | |
| 2025-09-30 | Trump Signs Pediatric Cancer AI Executive Order After Cutting Billions in Research Funding Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · MAHA Commission | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | HHS Refers Harvard for Federal Funding Debarment After Court Blocks Illegal Funding Freeze U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Harvard University · Donald Trump · Allison D. Burroughs | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | HUD Fires Two Civil Rights Lawyers Who Exposed Fair Housing Enforcement Gutting Palmer Heenan · Paul Osadebe · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Fair Housing Office | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | ProPublica Reveals Russell Vought as 'Shadow President' Orchestrating Government Dismantling Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget · Project 2025 | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | Trump Grants Qatar Unprecedented NATO-Like Security Guarantee via Executive Order Donald Trump · White House · State of Qatar · Benjamin Netanyahu | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | YouTube Pays Trump $24.5M to Settle Suspension Lawsuit, $22M for White House Ballroom Donald Trump · YouTube · Google · Meta · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-27 | UN Snapback Mechanism Reimposed Pre-2015 Sanctions on Iran France · Germany · United Kingdom · United Nations Security Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-26 | Envoy Witkoff's Son Pitches $4B Fund to Qatar and UAE While Father Negotiates Ceasefire Steve Witkoff · Alex Witkoff · Qatar Investment Authority · UAE · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | FBI Director Patel Fires 15-20 Agents Photographed Kneeling at 2020 George Floyd Protests Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · FBI Agents Association · Christopher Wray | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Gabbard Terminates Global Trends Intelligence Report and Unit Over Climate Change Analysis Tulsi Gabbard · DNI · Jake Sullivan | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Grover Norquist and 35 Conservative Groups Urge Trump to Let ACA Tax Credits Expire While Opposing Corporate Tax Credit Expirations Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform · Club for Growth · Americans for Prosperity · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-26 | ProPublica Reveals Noem Fast-Tracked $11M FEMA Funds to Naples Pier After Donor Intervention Kristi Noem · Sinan Gursoy · Teresa Heitmann · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4B in Foreign Aid Through Illegal 'Pocket Rescission' U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Elena Kagan · Mike Johnson · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | White House Solicits Input on Dismantling AI Regulations to Boost Industry White House · Office of Science and Technology Policy | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | DOJ Orders Federal Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros' Open Society Foundations for Alleged Terrorism Ties Department of Justice · George Soros · Open Society Foundations · Aakash Singh · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | DOJ Sues Six States to Seize Voter Data Including Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · California · Michigan · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former FBI Director James Comey for Disclosure of Sensitive Information James Comey · Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | Former FBI Director James Comey Indicted by Unlawfully Appointed Prosecutor Halligan James Comey · Lindsey Halligan · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | Microsoft Terminates Israeli Unit 8200's Azure Access for Mass Surveillance of Palestinian Civilians Microsoft · Brad Smith · Unit 8200 · Yossi Sariel · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | National Archives Releases Unredacted Military Records of Trump Opponent to GOP Operative National Archives · Mikie Sherrill · Nicholas De Gregorio · Chris Russell · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | POGO Exposes Ballard Partners Clients Winning No-Bid ICE Biometric Surveillance Contracts Ballard Partners · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Tesla Launches FSD V14 with Musk Claiming System 'Feels Sentient' Tesla · Elon Musk | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Approves TikTok Deal Giving Control to Allies Ellison and Murdoch, Demands Billions Donald Trump · Larry Ellison · Oracle · Rupert Murdoch · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Signs Executive Order Approving TikTok Deal with Oracle Partnership Donald Trump · White House · Oracle · ByteDance · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Signs NSPM-7 Labeling Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity, and 'Anti-Americanism' as Domestic Terrorism Indicators Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · JTTF · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump's Hand-Picked Prosecutor Indicts James Comey Days After Trump Demands DOJ Act 'Now' James Comey · Lindsey Halligan · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-24 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Set to Expire, Threatening 20M with 114% Premium Increases Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Kaiser Family Foundation | reported | |
| 2025-09-24 | Bessent Announces $20B Argentina Bailout for Trump Ally Milei, Enriching Connected Billionaire Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · Javier Milei · Rob Citrone · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Axon Acquires Prepared for $800-900 Million, Adding AI-Powered 911 Call Processing to Complete Surveillance Pipeline Axon · Prepared · Rick Smith | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-23 | Hegseth Terminates 74-Year-Old Women's Military Advisory Committee, Citing 'Divisive Feminist Agenda' Pete Hegseth · DACOWITS · U.S. Department of Defense | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Meta Launches Super PAC to Fight AI Regulation at State Level Meta · Mark Zuckerberg | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Senator Markey Alleges Energy Secretary Wright Using Position to Benefit Former Nuclear Firm Oklo Chris Wright · Oklo Inc. · Ed Markey · Department of Energy | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Trump Demands 10% Equity Stake in Lithium Americas During $2.26B Federal Loan Renegotiation Donald Trump · Lithium Americas · Department of Energy · General Motors | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | Bondi Appoints Insurance Defense Attorney Lindsey Halligan as EDVA U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi · Lindsey Halligan · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-22 | CREW Exposes OMB Hiding Spending Controls Through Secret 'Footnote' Agreements Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Closes Bribery Investigation of Border Czar Tom Homan Despite FBI Evidence Tom Homan · Emil Bove · Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Closes Homan FBI Sting Case Despite Recorded $50K Cash Exchange Tom Homan · Kash Patel · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Eliminates Consumer Protection Branch, Guts Civil Rights Division Enforcement Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · DOJ Civil Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-22 | Lindsey Halligan, Trump's Personal Attorney With No Prosecutorial Experience, Appointed Acting U.S. Attorney EDVA to Pursue Political Prosecutions Lindsey Halligan · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · James Comey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Humphrey's Executor, Review Trump's Power to Fire Agency Heads U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Commissioner Slaughter, Threatens Independent Agencies U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Alvaro Bedoya · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | Trump Installs Personal Lawyer Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney After Prosecutor Refuses Political Indictments Lindsey Halligan · Donald Trump · Erik Siebert · Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-09-21 | Charlie Kirk Memorial Service - Trump and Musk Publicly Reconcile Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Turning Point USA · Charlie Kirk | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-20 | Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney Erik Siebert Resigns Under Trump Pressure to Charge Letitia James Erik Siebert · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Letitia James · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | SEC Drops Fraud Cases Against Trump Clemency Recipients, Abandoning Victims Paul Atkins · Devon Archer · Trevor Milton · Carlos Watson · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump Appointee George Cook Named Acting Census Director in Unprecedented Triple Role George Cook · U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Department of Commerce · Donald Trump | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump Restricts H-1B Visas with $100,000 Per-Petition Fee Requirement Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump Signs 'Gold Card' Visa Executive Order Requiring $1-2 Million Payments Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump's $200M White House Ballroom Funded by Government Contractors Seeking Access Donald Trump · Lockheed Martin · Google · Palantir · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-18 | Analysis Reveals Proposed FY2026 Budget Would Cut CDC by 53%, Eliminate 61+ Programs Trust for America's Health (TFAH) · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-18 | Education Department Inspector General Probes DOGE's Illegal Access to Student Loan Data Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Education Department · Inspector General | reported | |
| 2025-09-18 | ICE Homeland Security Investigations Signs $3 Million Contract with Magnet Forensics for GrayKey Technology Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Homeland Security Investigations · Magnet Forensics · Grayshift · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-17 | DOJ and FTC Identify 125+ Federal Regulations for Elimination as "Anticompetitive" Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-17 | FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens ABC License Revocation, Disney Suspends Kimmel 'Indefinitely' Brendan Carr · Jimmy Kimmel · ABC · Disney · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-16 | Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Warns Rule of Law 'Under Attack Like Never Before' Jack Smith · Department of Justice · George Mason University · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-09-16 | Navy Seeks 2,400 Housing Units for Guam Military Buildup as Costs Squeeze Local Residents US Navy · U.S. Department of Defense · Joint Region Marianas · Pacific Center for Island Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-15 | Federal Reserve Study Confirms Americans Bear 94% of Tariff Costs, Low-Income Households Hit Hardest as Food and Consumer Prices Surge Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Harvard Business School Pricing Lab · Yale Budget Lab | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-15 | FEMA Cancels $11 Billion in Disaster Payments as Kristi Noem Imposes Spending Controls Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-15 | NYT Reveals UAE $2B Crypto Investment Tied to AI Chip Deal Approval Donald Trump · Steve Witkoff · David Sacks · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | Trump Installs Economic Adviser on Federal Reserve Board in Unprecedented Dual Role Stephen Miran · Donald Trump · Federal Reserve · Council of Economic Advisers | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | Trump's Offshore Wind Assault Threatens 17,000+ Jobs, 99 Renewable Projects Canceled Donald Trump · Doug Burgum · Orsted · Department of Interior | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | Wall Street Journal: FEMA Paralyzed by Noem's Approval Requirements as Disaster Victims Wait Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | reported | |
| 2025-09-14 | Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff Divests $120M Real Estate Stake While Retaining $350M in Assets Including Trump Crypto Steve Witkoff · Trump · Adam Schiff · World Liberty Financial | reported | |
| 2025-09-12 | Federal Appeals Court Upholds Trump Law Blocking Planned Parenthood Medicaid Reimbursements Donald Trump · Planned Parenthood · Federal Appeals Court | reported | |
| 2025-09-12 | SEC Drops Fraud Case Against Pardoned Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Trevor Milton · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-12 | Trump Threatens Racketeering Investigation Against George Soros for Funding Protests Donald Trump · George Soros · Open Society Foundations · Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Bloomberg Obtains 18,000+ Epstein Emails Revealing Maxwell Relationship and Trump Name Removal Request Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · Bloomberg News | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-11 | Deputy Secretary Landau Announces Visa Sanctions for Foreign Comments on Charlie Kirk Death Christopher Landau · State Department · Charlie Kirk | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | FTC Launches Investigation into AI Companion Chatbots' Impact on Children Federal Trade Commission · Alphabet · Character.AI · Meta · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Kennedy Center Fires Jazz Director in Continued Cultural Institution Purge Richard Grenell · Kevin Struthers · Jason Moran · Kennedy Center | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Senate Republicans Change Rules to Confirm Trump Nominees in Batches Without Individual Scrutiny John Thune · Senate Republicans · Donald Trump | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | State Department Adds 'Fidelity' Criterion, Retaliates Against Diplomats for Honest Analysis State Department · American Foreign Service Association · Donald Trump · Career Diplomats | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Ten Senate Democrats Demand Banking Committee Hearings on Epstein Financial Ties Elizabeth Warren · Jamie Dimon · JPMorgan · Deutsche Bank · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Trump Administration Threatens National Guard Deployment to Chicago Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Chicago City Government · Stephen Miller · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Charlie Kirk Assassinated at Utah Valley University During Turning Point USA Event Charlie Kirk · Tyler Robinson · Donald Trump · JD Vance · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-10 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Forces Corporations to Provide Government Equity Stakes Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Intel · Lockheed Martin · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Federal Judge Allows Trump to Eliminate 1,600 NSF Grants Worth $1 Billion Donald Trump · Department of Government Efficiency · National Science Foundation · Federal Judiciary | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Labor Department Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Jobs Data Manipulation Labor Department Inspector General · Erika McEntarfer · Donald Trump · Bureau of Labor Statistics | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Senate Republicans Vote 51-49 to Block Full Epstein Files Disclosure Senate Republicans · Chuck Schumer · Josh Hawley · Rand Paul · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Senator Wyden Introduces Legislation to Force Treasury Release of Epstein Records Ron Wyden · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Eliminates Climate Risk Assessment Panels Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Financial Stability Oversight Council | reported |