2020s
The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-10 | Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban Donald Trump · Trump Administration · William Barr · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump Systematically Removes Key Government Ethics and Whistleblower Protection Officials Donald Trump · Trump Administration · David Huitema · Hampton Dellinger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-09 | CFPB Headquarters Shuttered as Staff Ordered to Stop All Work Russell Vought · Mark Paoletta · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-08 | Federal Judge Issues First Major Ruling Blocking DOGE Access to Treasury Systems | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Kash Patel Received Payments from Russian Filmmaker with Kremlin Ties Kash Patel · Igor Lopatonok · Global Tree Pictures · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | President fires Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger; litigation ensues Donald Trump · Hampton Dellinger · Office of Special Counsel · Judge Amy Berman Jackson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX Troy Meink · Elon Musk · SpaceX · National Reconnaissance Office · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Media Offers $800,000 Stock Award to Kash Patel Before FBI Director Confirmation Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Robert Storch · Phyllis Fong · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Attorney General Bondi Dramatically Narrows FARA Prosecutorial Scope Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · DOJ National Security Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Russell Vought implements Project 2025 chapter as OMB Director Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Administration Disbands Task Force Targeting Russian Oligarchs Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Task Force KleptoCapture · Russian Oligarchs | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Nominee Kash Patel Discloses Millions in Shares from Chinese Company Accused of Forced Labor Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Adam Schiff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Attorney General Bondi Narrows FCPA Focus to Cartels While Pausing Corporate Bribery Cases Pamela Bondi · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. corporations | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | McMahon OGE Form 278e (Nominee) Certified, Disclosing TMTG Independent-Director Employment Agreements — 25,946 DJT RSUs, $55,200 Cash Retainer, $18,400/Quarter Forward Linda McMahon · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Musk Proposes Rapid FAA Air Traffic Control System Safety Upgrades Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Sean Duffy · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Pam Bondi Sworn In as Attorney General, Immediately Begins DOJ Purge Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Devin DeBacker · Matt Gaetz | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Trump Administration Shuts Down KleptoCapture Task Force Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Merrick Garland · Gary Kalman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | US sovereign wealth fund could stockpile Bitcoin, Trump's crypto czar says Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | 25-Year-Old Musk Aide Given Write Access to $6 Trillion Treasury Payment System Marko Elez · Elon Musk · Scott Bessent · David Lebryk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump implements massive tariffs as concerns mount over market manipulation Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Senate Democrats · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump Signs Executive Order Restoring 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign Against Iran Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Makes Massive Ethereum Purchases Amid Market Volatility Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-03 | DOGE Gains Access to Treasury's Central Payment System Controlling Trillions in Annual Spending | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-02 | Trump administration purges 8,000+ climate web pages from federal agencies Trump Administration · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · NOAA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | ALEC Publishes 'Essential Policy Solutions 2025' Playbook - State-Level Corporate and Income Tax Elimination Agenda, Coordination with Federal Project 2025 American Legislative Exchange Council · Lisa Nelson · Arthur Laffer · State Policy Network · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Campaign Legal Center identifies 467 conflicts requiring recusal Campaign Legal Center · Trump Appointees · Ethics Watchdogs | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick faces 106 conflicts of interest requiring recusal Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Cantor Fitzgerald | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | DOJ and FBI gut public corruption enforcement teams Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Education Department Civil Rights Division Slashed from 550 to 243 Employees U.S. Department of Education · Russell Vought · Office for Civil Rights | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Energy Secretary Wright owns $54 million in fracking company stock Chris Wright · Liberty Energy · Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Federal job applicants required to write essays on advancing Trump's orders Office of Personnel Management · White House Personnel Office | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | MAGA commissars deployed throughout federal agencies to monitor compliance White House Personnel Office · Federal Agencies · Office of Personnel Management | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Musk companies received $38 billion in government support over 20 years Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla · Starlink · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | NOAA faces 27% budget cut with research office eliminated Trump Administration · NOAA · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Over 70 Trump appointees hold $193+ million in cryptocurrency Trump Appointees · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Schedule F Implementation Targets 50,000 Federal Workers Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Russell Pekala · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Trump Announces 25% Tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Opening Salvo of Trade War; Canada Retaliates; 30-Day Pause After 3 Days Donald Trump · Justin Trudeau · Claudia Sheinbaum · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | VA Secretary Doug Collins Announces 72,000 Job Cuts While Claiming "No Cuts to Benefits" Doug Collins · Department of Veterans Affairs · va-employees · veterans | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | DOE Reverts Title IX to Trump-Era 2020 Rules, Narrowing Sexual Harassment and Gender Identity Protections Department of Education · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Federal Prosecutors Withdraw from Andy Ogles Criminal Investigation Andy Ogles · U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee · Department of Justice · John P. Taddei · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Russian Oligarch Held SpaceX Stake While Under U.S. Sanctions Suleiman Kerimov · SpaceX · Elon Musk · Heritage Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Swiss National Bank purchased 111,300 shares of Trump Media worth $1.78M, stake grows to $5.37M by February Swiss National Bank · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Media & Technology Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | U.S. Global Change Research Program dismantled with staff removed U.S. Global Change Research Program · White House · Russ Vought · David Legates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Amazon Raises Ad Spending on Elon Musk's X Platform Jeff Bezos · Elon Musk · Andy Jassy · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | CBP Journalist Watchlist and Border Surveillance Program Documented U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Targeted Journalists · Immigration Advocates · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Coalition of 22 State Attorneys General Secures Court Order Blocking Trump Federal Funding Freeze Letitia James · Judge John McConnell · 22 State Attorneys General · District of Columbia | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Not just Big Tech: under-the-radar corporations rushed to donate to Trump's inauguration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · CoreCivic · GEO Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Paramount in settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Trump Crypto Dinner Offers Presidential Access for Top $TRUMP Coin Buyers Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Fight Fight Fight LLC · Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | DOJ moves to drop charges against former GOP lawmaker in case criticized by Trump Donald Trump · Jeff Fortenberry · Trump Administration · U.S. Justice Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Hegseth Orders Pentagon DEI Purge, Establishes 'Restoring America's Fighting Force' Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit over suspended accounts Donald Trump · Mark Zuckerberg · Meta Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Pentagon Ends Travel Reimbursement for Military Members Seeking Abortion Care Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · Lloyd Austin · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Trump Media Launches Truth.Fi FinTech Brand with $250M Investment Strategy Donald Trump · Devin Nunes · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | USAID Inspector General Fired After Warning About $8.2 Billion Aid Oversight Risks Paul Martin · United States Agency for International Development · Donald Trump · White House Personnel Office · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | Defense Secretary Revokes General Milley Security Detail in Political Retaliation Pete Hegseth · General Mark Milley · Pentagon Inspector General · Iranian Regime · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | Interior IG Mark Greenblatt reacts to firing: 'stunned' Mark Greenblatt (Interior Department IG) · CBS News · Donald Trump · Department of Interior | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov, Defining Federal AI Product Surface Eight Days into Trump-2 OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Federal Government · Microsoft Azure Government | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | OPM Sends "Fork in the Road" Email Offering 2 Million Federal Employees Deferred Resignation Office of Personnel Management · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · DOGE · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | OMB Issues Memo M-25-13 Freezing All Federal Financial Assistance, Triggering Constitutional Crisis Over Congressional Spending Power Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump · Judge John McConnell · Letitia James · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Palantir Veteran Gregory Barbaccia Named Federal CIO, Controls $100B+ IT Budget Gregory Barbaccia · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · Office of Management and Budget · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Trump DOJ Fires Jack Smith Special Counsel Team in Systematic Purge James McHenry · Jack Smith · Molly Gaston · J.P. Cooney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Transgender Military Service, Reversing Biden Policy | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-26 | DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Secretly Received $80,000 Dark Money Cut While Governor Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Dark money groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | At least 20 families have multiple members in federal posts Charles Kushner · Kimberly Guilfoyle · Massad Boulos · Trump Family | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Brendan Carr chairs FCC after writing Project 2025 FCC chapter Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | DNI Tulsi Gabbard's Secret Assad Meeting and Russian Ties Alarm Intelligence Allies Tulsi Gabbard · Bashar al-Assad · Russian Intelligence · DNI · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump Fires 17 Independent Watchdogs Across Multiple Federal Agencies Donald Trump · Sergio Gor · Sen. Chuck Grassley | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump inauguration raises record $251.4 million from corporations Trump Inaugural Committee · Pilgrim's Pride Corp. ($5 million) · Ripple Labs ($4.9 million) · Warren Stephens · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump pardons financial criminals including wire fraud convict and money launderers Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Financial criminals · Republican donors | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump's Foreign Business Partners and Corporate Leaders Converge at 2025 Inauguration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Corporate Leaders · Foreign Business Partners | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | DOJ Orders Limits on FACE Act Enforcement, Weakening Abortion Clinic Protection Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | NSA Waltz Made $92 Million from Defense Contracting While Advocating Forever Wars michael-waltz · metis-solutions · pacific-architects-and-engineers · Defense Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary in historic VP tiebreaker vote Pete Hegseth · JD Vance · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Time finds nearly 65% of early executive actions mirror Project 2025 proposals Donald Trump · Russ Vought · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Trump fires 18 Inspectors General in unprecedented purge of government watchdogs Donald Trump · Robert Storch · Michael Missal · Hannibal Ware · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Vance Casts Tiebreaker Confirming Hegseth as Defense Secretary: Enabling Event for Project 2025 DoD-Purge Chapter JD Vance · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Vance Delivers First VP Speech at March for Life; Articulates Severino HHS 'Family Office' Pronatalist Framework JD Vance · March for Life · Mike Johnson | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | DOJ Expands Surveillance of Journalists Covering Administration U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Division · Journalists · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | Interior Secretary Doug Burgum Signs Ethics Agreement to Divest Oil and Gas Interests Doug Burgum · Department of Interior · continental-resources · Microsoft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | DOJ Orders Complete Freeze on All Civil Rights Division Cases and Enforcement Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Kathleen Wolfe (Acting Civil Rights Division Head) · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler With $1 Billion Fortune and Insider Trading History Takes Office Kelly Loeffler · intercontinental-exchange · sba · Jeffrey Sprecher | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | AG Pam Bondi Eliminates DOJ KleptoCapture Unit and Foreign Influence Task Force Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | MAGA commissars deployed throughout federal agencies Trump Administration · Trump loyalists · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | National emergency declared at U.S. southern border Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Russell Vought Becomes OMB Director - Project 2025 Chief Architect Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Fires Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan on Day Two — First Military Leader Removed Linda Fagan · Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road Dark Web Drug Marketplace Founder Donald Trump · Ross Ulbricht · Tim Kaine · Libertarian Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Signs EO 14173 'Ending Illegal Discrimination' — Foundational Anti-DEI Order Requiring Federal Contractor Certification Donald Trump · Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Brings 42 Corporate Lobbying Clients into White House Susie Wiles · republic-services · swisher-international · northern-dynasty-minerals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Maintains $600 Million Tether Stake Despite DOJ Investigation and Senate Scrutiny Howard Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald · tether · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Coordinated Federal Workforce Purge: Schedule F and DOJ Personnel Removal Donald Trump · Molly Gaston · J.P. Cooney · Anne McNamara · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Ed Coristine, 19, given access to critical government systems despite cybercrime links Edward Coristine · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · State Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Emergence of Coordinated Legal Resistance Networks American Civil Liberties Union · Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights · Pro Bono Litigation Corps · Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Executive Order 14171: Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions (Schedule F) Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Confirmed with Ongoing Vaccine Litigation Referral Fees Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · childrens-health-defense · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | ICE Launches Aggressive Raids in Puerto Rico's Dominican Community Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Rebecca González-Ramos · Jenniffer González-Colón · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed |