2020s
The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-14 | Trump Eliminates SpaceX Environmental Safeguards via Executive Order Donald Trump · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Department of Transportation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-13 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Violates Ethics Agreement, Retains Millions in Conflicted Assets Scott Bessent · Office of Government Ethics · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-13 | Trump Revokes Executive Order on Competition Donald Trump · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-12 | Former Kazakhstan intelligence chief alleges Putin holds Trump-Epstein kompromat files Alnur Mussayev · Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-11 | Military preparing to activate hundreds of D.C. National Guard members Donald Trump · DC National Guard · West Virginia National Guard · South Carolina National Guard · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Demands Intel CEO Resignation, Then Reverses After Meeting Donald Trump · Lip-Bu Tan · Intel Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Federalizes DC Police and Deploys 800 National Guard Troops Despite Declining Crime Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Terry Cole · DC Metropolitan Police · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Nominates Partisan Heritage Foundation Economist to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics E.J. Antoni · Donald Trump · Bureau of Labor Statistics · Heritage Foundation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Opens $12.5 Trillion in Retirement Savings to Cryptocurrency and Private Equity Risk Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Labor · Cryptocurrency industry · Private Equity Industry | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Vietnamese Farmers Displaced for Trump Golf Resort, Compensated $3,200 and Rice Trump Organization · Kinhbac City · Government of Vietnam | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-10 | About 120 FBI agents assigned to patrol Washington, D.C. streets Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · DC Metropolitan Police | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-10 | DOJ Employee Sean Dunn Fired After Throwing Sandwich at Federal Agent in Protest Pam Bondi · Sean Dunn | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-08 | Democracy Forward Files First FOIA Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Democracy Forward · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-08 | EPA Terminates Union Contracts Following Appellate Stays U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · AFGE Council 238 (8,000+ EPA workers) · Justin Chen (AFGE Council 238 President) · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-08 | White House announces increased federal law-enforcement presence in Washington, D.C. Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Marshals Service · Federal Protective Service | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | EPA Cancels Solar for All Grants Program U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | GSA enters $1B OneGov cloud agreement with AWS General Services Administration · AWS | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Paramount-Skydance Merger Completes After FCC Approval Paramount Global · Skydance Media · David Ellison · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Senator Ossoff documents 510 credible reports of ICE detention abuse including child mistreatment Jon Ossoff · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Tricia McLaughlin (DHS) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Skydance-Paramount deal closes with contentious FCC regulatory conditions Skydance · Paramount Global · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump delayed a Medicare change after health company donations Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Executive Order Places Federal Grants Under Political Appointee Control Donald Trump · White House · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Issues 202 Executive Orders with Two-Thirds Matching Project 2025 Blueprint Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · Federal Register | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Signs Executive Order Prohibiting 'Debanking' Based on Political Views Donald Trump · White House · Federal Reserve · FDIC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-06 | DOJ Drops Charges Against AG Pam Bondi's Brother's Clients in Pattern of Conflicts Pam Bondi · Brad Bondi · Trevor Milton · Carolina Amesty · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-06 | Trump announces federal takeover of DC police citing Coristine attack Donald Trump · DC Police Department · National Guard · Edward Coristine | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-06 | Trump Imposes 50% Tariff on Brazil to Punish Prosecution of Bolsonaro Donald Trump · jair-bolsonaro · brazil-government · world-trade-organization | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | Chairman Comer Issues 11 Subpoenas Including Clintons and Former AGs James Comer · Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Launches Mortgage Fraud Investigation Targeting Senator Adam Schiff Department of Justice · Adam Schiff · U.S. Attorney's Office (Maryland) · Federal Housing Finance Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Publishes Official List of 35 "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions, Escalating Federal-State Confrontation Over Immigration Enforcement Department of Justice · Donald Trump · 13 Sanctuary States · 18 Sanctuary Cities | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | Federal Judge Strikes Down Key Parts of California's Deepfake Laws Federal Judge · X/Twitter · California | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | GAO says NIH grant delays violated the Impoundment Control Act Government Accountability Office (GAO) · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health (NIH) | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | How Donald Trump’s spending bill will boost Silicon Valley’s defence companies Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | DOJ Inspector General 'Lost' Whistleblower Complaint Against Trump Judicial Nominee for Three Months DOJ Office of Inspector General · Whistleblower Aid · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | Ex-DOGE worker Coristine attacked, Trump threatens federal DC takeover Edward Coristine · Donald Trump · DC Metropolitan Police · National Guard | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | HHS Awards Palantir $19.8M SHARE BPA Task Order for Integrated Care and Case Management (ICCM) and Database Support — 64% of $90M Ceiling Committed Palantir Technologies · Department of Health and Human Services · HHS Program Support Center · Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | Trump Sons Launch $300M SPAC Targeting US Manufacturing Revival Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Kevin McGurn · Kyle Wool | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-03 | Texas House Democrats flee to Illinois to break quorum on redistricting Texas House Democrats · Texas Legislature · Illinois Governor JB Pritzker · Gene Wu · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-02 | Donor list suggests scale of Trump’s pay-for-access operation Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-02 | Office of Special Counsel Opens Investigation into Jack Smith Following Senator Cotton Request Jack Smith · Tom Cotton · Office of Special Counsel · Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-02 | Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. Jeanine Pirro · Trump · U.S. Senate · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-02 | TRAC: ICE arrests drop to ~990 per day in July 2025 TRAC Syracuse University · ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Administration deliberately evades court order on Venezuelan gang deportations U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · Trump Administration · Emil Bove (DOJ official) · Venezuelan deportees · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Columbia University Agrees to Monitor Foreign Students for Trump Administration in $221 Million Settlement Columbia University · U.S. Department of Education · White House · Bart Schwartz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Corporate PACs Donated $174 Million to Lawmakers Who Attempted to Overturn 2020 Election Koch Industries · American Crystal Sugar · AT&T · Corporate PACs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | DOJ Uses Legal Loopholes to Install Trump Loyalists as Acting U.S. Attorneys Without Senate Confirmation Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · U.S. Senate · Federal Judiciary · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Far-Right Activist Laura Loomer Orchestrates Mass Loyalty Purges Across Trump Administration Laura Loomer · Donald Trump · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | FBI Redacted Trump's Name from Jeffrey Epstein Files Under Privacy Protections Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler Resigns Early, Opening Seat for Trump Appointee Adriana Kugler · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Ghislaine Maxwell Transferred to Minimum-Security Texas Prison Camp After Meeting with DOJ Officials Ghislaine Maxwell · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | ICE detention deaths reach 14 in FY2025 amid reports of medical neglect and overcrowding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · CoreCivic · GEO Group · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | ICE detention reaches 59,000 people at 140% capacity with 70% having no criminal record Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Pfizer CEO attending $25 million fundraiser at Trump's golf club after president demands drug price cuts, sources say Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Qualcomm Donates $1 Million to Trump-Aligned Dark Money Group Qualcomm · Securing American Greatness · Taylor Budowich · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Sean Combs Associates Offer Mid-Six-Figure Payments to Trump Officials for Presidential Pardon Sean Combs · Donald Trump · Nicole Westmoreland · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment References from National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution · National Museum of American History · White House · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Supreme Court Expands Louisiana Redistricting Case to Challenge Section 2 of Voting Rights Act U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Louisiana · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump administration defies court orders in 57 of 165 cases (35%) Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · U.S. District Judge John McConnell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump Fires Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Hours After Unfavorable Jobs Report Donald Trump · Erika McEntarfer · Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump Orders States to Hand Over Medicaid, Food Assistance, and Voter Roll Data for Federal Surveillance U.S. Department of Homeland Security · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | U.S. Army Awards Palantir $10 Billion AI-Driven Software Contract U.S. Army · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-31 | Elon Musk Continues $277 Million Donation Spree Supporting Trump and Republican Candidates Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · MAGA Inc. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-31 | Eric Trump Launches American Bitcoin, Raises $220 Million Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Hut 8 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-31 | Trump Mobile Launches Comprehensive Wireless Service with Telehealth and Insurance Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Pat O'Brien · Don Hendrickson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-31 | White House Announces $200M State Ballroom Construction Project Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · McCrery Architects · Clark Construction · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | California Judicial Council Establishes First Comprehensive AI Transparency Regulations California Judicial Council · US Federal Judicial Conference · xAI · AI Rights Advocacy Groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | Senate Committee Advances Bill Banning Congressional Stock Trading Donald Trump · Josh Hawley · Rick Scott | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | Trump to Host 2026 G20 Summit at Doral Resort, Reviving Controversial Hosting Attempt Donald Trump · Kevin Hassett · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | Twelve House Democrats sue Trump administration for blocking detention facility oversight Rep. Joe Neguse (CO) · Rep. Jason Crow · Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY) · Rep. Dan Goldman (NY) · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | White House Releases Comprehensive Crypto Policy Roadmap Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · David Sacks · U.S. Treasury Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-29 | EPA Proposes Rescinding Endangerment Finding at Indiana Truck Dealership: Zeldin Calls It 'Largest Deregulatory Action in History' Lee Zeldin · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-29 | Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Gaza "Genocide" - First GOP Lawmaker to Use Term Marjorie Taylor Greene · Republican Party · Israel | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-29 | ModCorr Leases 252,282 sqft from PNK at Allenwood, PA to Manufacture Modular Prison Cells — Same Campus Where PNK Later Proposes AI Data Center ModCorr LLC · PNK Group · PNK P2 LLC · Andrey Sharkov · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | EPA Delays Methane Pollution Rules for Oil and Gas Industry, Adding Equivalent of 25 Million Cars' Emissions EPA · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | ICE blocks members of Congress from detention facilities, violating oversight law Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Rep. Jason Crow · Sen. Chris Van Hollen · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | SEC chair attended Don Jr.'s party before SEC granted Don Jr.-backed gun company approval to go public Donald Trump Jr. · Paul Atkins · Trump Administration · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | Trump’s budget bill benefits private immigration detention companies that donated to Trump Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-26 | DOGE Uses AI to Target Elimination of 50% of Federal Regulations Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-26 | Trump Appoints Nicholas Kent, For-Profit College Insider, as Education Under Secretary Donald Trump · Nicholas Kent · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Texas Legislature passes redistricting without Democrats present Texas Legislature · Texas Republicans · Greg Abbott · Texas House Democrats · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Trump Administration Accepts Qatar's Luxury Jet, Uses Missile Program Funds for Retrofit Donald Trump · Troy Meink · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Trump Leverages Golf Properties for Diplomatic Negotiations and Trade Deal in Scotland Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Keir Starmer · Ursula von der Leyen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Trump's Scotland Golf Course Trip Blends Presidential Duties with Private Business Interests Donald Trump · Keir Starmer · Ursula von der Leyen | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-24 | FCC Approves Skydance's Acquisition of Paramount/CBS Federal Communications Commission · Skydance Media · Paramount Global · Commissioner Anna Gomez (dissented) | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-24 | UnitedHealth Confirms DOJ Criminal and Civil Investigation for Medicare Advantage Upcoding Fraud UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Department of Justice · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | Columbia agrees to $200 million fine to settle fight with Trump Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | House Oversight Subcommittee Votes 8-2 to Subpoena DOJ for Epstein Files U.S. House Oversight Committee · Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) · Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) · Rep. Brian Jack (R-GA) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | House Speaker Johnson Shuts Down Congress Early to Block Epstein Files Vote Mike Johnson · Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | Senate Investigation Reveals Epstein's Billion-Dollar Russian Bank Transfers Linked to Trafficking U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Jeffrey Epstein · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | Supreme Court Emergency Order in Trump v. Boyle US Supreme Court · Donald Trump · CPSC Commissioners · Justice Kagan | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-22 | Six Democratic states form redistricting defense pact Democratic Governors Association · State Legislatures · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-21 | Trump Administration Defying 35% of Court Orders in Unprecedented Constitutional Crisis Trump Administration · Federal Courts · Department of Justice · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-21 | Trump Media buys $2 billion in bitcoin for crypto Treasury plan Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-20 | California announces defensive mid-cycle redistricting in response to Texas California Legislature · Gavin Newsom · California Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-18 | EPA Announces Largest Workforce Reduction in History — 3,707 Employees Cut, Office of Research and Development Eliminated Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · DOGE | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-18 | GENIUS Act signed - first major pro-crypto legislation benefiting Trump holdings Donald Trump · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-18 | TIGTA update: IRS reductions and DRP effects as of July Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) · Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-18 | Trump signs landmark GENIUS Act, establishing first federal stablecoin regulatory framework Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-17 | Mass Firing of Inspectors General Signals Systematic Government Oversight Erosion Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Martin · Michael Missal | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-17 | Thiel's Founders Fund Leads $260M Round for Hadrian Defense Manufacturing Startup Hadrian Automation · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · Lux Capital · +1 | confirmed |