2020s
The 2020s contain 2575 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-17 | Mass Layoffs Hit Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Judicial Intervention Emerges Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Amy Berman Jackson · Gavin Kliger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Trump Appointee Sought IRS Audit Review for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Mike Lindell · David Eisner | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Trump Team Targets Politically Connected Startup Ramp for $700B Government Payments Overhaul Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · J.D. Vance · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Elon Musk Donates to GOP Lawmakers Targeting Judicial Oversight Elon Musk · Chuck Grassley · Eli Crane · Lauren Boebert · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Elon Musk installed his top lieutenants at a federal agency you probably haven’t heard of Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Trump Fires Democratic Board Members of the NCUA Donald Trump · Todd Harper · Tanya Otsuka · Kyle Hauptman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Under Trump, consumer watchdog to slash industry supervision Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Russell Vought · National Treasury Employees Union · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | Press Freedom Tracker: White House wrests control of press pool structure White House · U.S. Press Freedom Tracker · White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) · Associated Press · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | Trump Donors Seek Greenland Investment Opportunities Donald Trump · Mark Zuckerberg · Sam Altman · Jeff Bezos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | Trump Launches Crypto Real Estate Video Game Venture Donald Trump · Bill Zanker · Kevin Mercuri · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | US Removes Sanctions from Antal Rogán, Top Orbán Aide Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Antal Rogán · Viktor Orbán · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | White House restructures press pool, removes permanent wire position White House · White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) · Wire services | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Founders Fund Leads $50M Round for Enriched Uranium Startup General Matter; Peter Thiel Joins Board Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · General Matter · Scott Nolan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Greene bought market dip before Trump paused tariffs, profiting from the rally Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marjorie Taylor Greene | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Pulte Appoints 1789 Capital's Omeed Malik to Fannie Mae Board; Nominating/Governance Committee Seat Paired with FHFA Director as Chair Omeed Malik · Bill Pulte · Donald Trump Jr. · 1789 Capital · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Trump Administration Restructures White-Collar Crime Enforcement Strategy Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Matthew Galeotti · James McHenry III | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Wolff Reports Trump Team's Media Leverage Attempt with Warner Bros. Discovery Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Michael Wolff · David Zaslav · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-13 | ICE terminates $73 million no-bid contract after improper influence allegations Universal Strategic Advisors · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Brian DeMore · David Marin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-12 | Trump Family Launches Comprehensive $5B Cryptocurrency Empire Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-12 | US and Iran Begin Indirect Nuclear Negotiations in Oman Steve Witkoff · Abbas Araghchi · Oman | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Binance seeks to curb U.S. oversight while in deal talks with Trump’s crypto company Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | CFPB Dismisses Lawsuit Against Comerica Bank Over Federal Benefits Card Program Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Rohit Chopra · Comerica Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | DOJ fires immigration attorney for refusing to lie to federal courts about deportations Erez Reuveni · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Meta adds former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick to its board Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Dina Powell McCormick · Mark Zuckerberg | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Musk's DOGE Team Gains Control of Federal Payment System Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · David Lebryk · Chuck Schumer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | The US is turning a blind eye to crypto crimes Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump announces deals with more law firms for a combined $600 million Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump Directs Agencies to Quietly Repeal Regulations Without Public Notice Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Lee Zeldin · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump megadonor drags of easy access to White House Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Federal Judges Establish Precedent for Presidential Accountability Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Rebecca Slaughter · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Fired US Federal Trade Commissioners Sound Alarm on Potential Data Access Misuse Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Rebecca Slaughter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | ICE cancels $3.8B Fort Bliss contract amid corruption concerns, awards to inexperienced firm Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Deployed Resources · Acquisition Logistics LLC · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Judicial System Struggles with Presidential Accountability Mechanisms Federal Circuit Courts · Department of Justice · Presidential Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Labor leaders fear Elon Musk and DOGE could gain access to whistleblower files Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · AFL-CIO · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Mass Judicial Removal Attempt Triggers Constitutional Emergency Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Department of Justice · White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Government Must 'Facilitate' Abrego Garcia's Return Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Trump Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Trump Signs Bill Nullifying Expanded IRS Crypto Broker Rule Donald Trump · Mike Carey · Ways and Means Committee · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Trump White House Brokers Pro Bono Deals with Elite Law Firms Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Latham & Watkins · Simpson Thacher · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | Trump offers ‘buy’ tip on social media hours before tariff pause that made stocks soar Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | Trump Reverses Course with 90-Day Tariff Pause After Bond Market Crisis; China Excluded, Tariffs Escalate to 145% Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | US DOGE Service Agreement with Department of Labor Reveals $1.3 Million Fee Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Labor · US Digital Service (USDS) | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | US-China Tariff Escalation Reaches 145% as Tit-for-Tat Retaliation Nears Total Decoupling Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | USCIS to screen immigrants' social media for antisemitic activity U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Trump Administration · Civil liberties groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | Judge orders restoration of AP access to White House events U.S. District Court · Associated Press · The White House · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | Justice Department Disbands National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-07 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Pressured into $100M Pro Bono Deal by Trump White House Donald Trump · Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft · Senator Sheldon Whitehouse · Todd Blanche | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-07 | Dhillon Guts DOJ Voting Section: Reassigns Managers, Suspends Cases, Rewrites Mission to 'Voter Fraud' Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division · DOJ Voting Section · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Launch of Integrated Legal Technology Platform for Collaborative Resistance Legal Tech Innovations · Constitutional Litigation Consortium · Digital Defense Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Legal Resistance Tech Collaboration Platform Launch Electronic Frontier Foundation · Legal Tech Innovations · Digital Defense Fund | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Nationwide Legal Defense Network Expands Operational Capacity National Legal Defense Consortium · State-Level Legal Aid Organizations · Civil Rights Attorneys · AFL-CIO · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Trump family’s cash registers ring as financial meltdown plays out Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | ‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | SpaceX wins $5.9 billion Space Force contract amid congressional conflict-of-interest investigation SpaceX · U.S. Space Force · Elon Musk · Rep. Stephen Lynch · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield Fired as U.S. Military Representative to NATO — 'Loss of Confidence' Shoshana Chatfield · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | World Liberty Financial Sells $25 Million in Tokens Days Before DOJ Crypto Unit Disbanded Trump Family · World Liberty Financial · DWF Labs · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Challenger data shows DOGE drove 280,253 federal layoffs across 27 agencies Department of Government Efficiency · Challenger Gray & Christmas · Elon Musk · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Department of Education Issues "Dear Colleague Letter" Requiring Universities to Certify No DEI Programs or Lose Federal Funding Department of Education · Office for Civil Rights · General Services Administration · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | FCC Chair Carr Proposes Section 230 Reinterpretation at DOJ "Big-Tech Censorship" Forum Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Christopher Darby | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Law firm Kirkland & Ellis in talks with White House to avoid executive order Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Liberation Day Market Crash: S&P 500 Drops 10.5% in Two Days, $6.6 Trillion Wiped Out in Largest Two-Day Loss in History Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Federal Reserve · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Resistance is futile, make a deal: Trump's tariff message to the world Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Trump Fires NSA Director Gen. Timothy Haugh and Deputy After Laura Loomer Oval Office Visit Timothy Haugh · Wendy Noble · Donald Trump · Laura Loomer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | DOT announces enforcement grace period for new emissions standards Department of Transportation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Judge Dale Ho Dismisses Eric Adams Corruption Case With Prejudice, Citing Apparent Quid Pro Quo With Trump DOJ Dale Ho · Eric Adams · Donald Trump · Danielle Sassoon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Liberation Day Tariffs Cost Average Household $1,000 in 2025, Imported Goods Prices Rise 4% as Americans Bear 94% of Tariff Cost Donald Trump · Office of the U.S. Trade Representative · Tax Foundation · Yale Budget Lab · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Report: 34,000 Ohio ballots rejected in 2024 election after ID/process changes All Voting Is Local (voting rights organization) · Ohio Secretary of State · Ohio Legislature · Affected voters | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | SEC Restructures Enforcement Division Under Trump Administration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Atkins · Samuel Waldon · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Shares in Trump social media company sink following concerns about insider selloff Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Top Anti-Corruption Officials Depart SEC Following Enforcement Pause Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Charles Cain · Tracy Price | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump Administration Pressures Law Firms into Pro Bono Settlements Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Law Firms Targeted | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump Invokes Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to Impose Unprecedented Reciprocal Tariffs Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump just pardoned...a corporation? Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Two more law firms reach deals with Trump to avoid executive orders: 'they're all bending' Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Scott Edelman · Milbank LLP | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | U.S. lifts sanctions on wife of Putin’s childhood friend Boris Rotenberg Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid Meta antitrust trial Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | EPA reverses bans on TCE, asbestos, and ethylene oxide under industry executives Nancy Beck · Lynn Dekleva · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · American Chemistry Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | HHS Lays Off 10,000 Federal Health Workers at NIH, FDA, and CDC in RFK Jr. Restructuring U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Multiple Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for Exposing Systematic Kleptocratic Corruption Reuters · Wall Street Journal · Boston Globe · Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's Mansion Set on Fire, Family Forced to Flee Josh Shapiro (Governor, victim) · Unknown arsonist | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Rural internet program on hold as Musk's satellites get new consideration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | State Department plans $400 million payment to Tesla after regulatory firings State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Trump announces deal with law firm that employs Doug Emhoff Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | DOJ Drops Voting Rights Cases in Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama, Abandoning Federal Enforcement Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · Brad Raffensperger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Musk-funded political group spends big and goes door to door in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Administration Continues Systematic DOJ Prosecutor Purge Trump Administration · Department of Justice · James McHenry · Career Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Administration Freezes Title X Funding to Planned Parenthood Affiliates Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Planned Parenthood · National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump commutes sentence of convicted fraudster who aided GOP impeachment effort Donald Trump · Jason Galanis · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Family Launches American Bitcoin Corp. with Hut 8 Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Hut 8 Corp. · Mike Ho · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Family Takes Control of World Liberty Financial Crypto Venture Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff · Justin Sun | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Zuckerberg tries to enlist trump in fight against Meta EU ruling Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-30 | Musk Distributes $1 Million Payments in Controversial Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Intervention Elon Musk · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · Nicholas Jacobs · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval Donald Trump · Travis Hill · Trump Administration · FDIC | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Peter Marks Forced Out as FDA Vaccine Chief, Accuses RFK Jr. of 'Misinformation and Lies' Peter Marks · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · FDA · HHS | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | SEC Launches Crypto Task Force with Significant Staffing Changes Paul Atkins · Mark T. Uyeda · Hester Peirce · SEC Crypto Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump gets $100M deal with Skadden law firm amid pressure campaign Donald Trump · Jeremy London · Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons four founders of BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange convicted of money laundering Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case Donald Trump · Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Vice President Vance Visits Greenland, Accuses Denmark of Neglecting Territory JD Vance · Usha Vance · Mike Waltz · Chris Wright · +1 | confirmed |