Executive Power Expansion
The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 775 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | Pentagon Misses Warren-Shaheen WEXMAC Deadline — No Public Response to 13 Armed Services Questions on Navy Detention Contracting Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Pete Hegseth · Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-07 | Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Civilization Tonight: 8 PM Ultimatum to Destroy All Power Plants and Bridges Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Iran | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-03 | McConnell Joins Democrats to Defend US NATO Membership as Trump Considers Withdrawal Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Chris Coons · Susan Collins · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-03 | US F-15E Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Iran, One Crew Member Rescued, Second Missing U.S. Air Force · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-02 | Hegseth Fires Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George During Iran War, Installs Former Personal Aide Pete Hegseth · Randy George · Christopher LaNeve · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-02 | US Bombs Bridge Near Tehran Killing Eight Civilians, Trump Posts Collapse Video on Truth Social Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Iran | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-02 | US Intelligence Assesses Iran Retains Roughly Half Its Missile Launchers After Five Weeks of Strikes U.S. Intelligence Community · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-01 | OCC final rule amending 12 CFR 5.20 takes effect, replacing 'fiduciary activities' with 'operations of a trust company and activities related thereto' for national trust bank charters Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · U.S. Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-01 | Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-28 | No Kings III Protest Announced for March 28 as Movement Plans Third Nationwide Mobilization No Kings Movement · Indivisible · American Civil Liberties Union · American Association of University Professors | reported | |
| 2026-03-25 | Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Surfaces — NSA Intercept Naming Kushner Buried for Eight Months Tulsi Gabbard · Jared Kushner · Susie Wiles · Christopher Fox | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-25 | Iran Rejects Trump's 15-Point Peace Plan as 'Excessive and Unrealistic,' Demands Lebanon Ceasefire as Precondition Donald Trump · Esmail Baghaei · Abbas Araghchi · Masoud Pezeshkian | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-24 | Markwayne Mullin Sworn In as DHS Secretary After 54-45 Senate Confirmation; Immediately Pauses WEXMAC-TITUS Warehouse Detention Buildout Markwayne Mullin · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · John Fetterman · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-23 | Trump Backs Off Ultimatum, Claims 'Productive Conversations' with Iran — Tehran Flatly Denies Any Talks Donald Trump · Iran Foreign Ministry | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-22 | Trump Gives Iran 48-Hour Ultimatum to Reopen Hormuz — Threatens to 'Obliterate' Power Plants Donald Trump · Islamic Republic of Iran | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-21 | US Military Strikes Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility in Major Nuclear Escalation U.S. Department of Defense · Iran Atomic Energy Organization · International Atomic Energy Agency | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-20 | Hegseth Quotes Psalm 144 at Pentagon Briefing, Calls Iranian Leaders "Religious Fanatics" Pete Hegseth · MRFF · PRRI · Mikey Weinstein | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-20 | Trump Claims War 'Winding Down' While Deploying 2,500 Additional Marines to Middle East Donald Trump · Pentagon · U.S. Central Command · U.S. Marine Corps | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-20 | Trump Issues 30-Day Waiver Allowing Purchase of 140M Barrels of Iranian Oil to Ease Price Surge Treasury Department · Donald Trump · Sen. Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | Booker War Powers Resolution Fails 47-53 — Only Paul Crosses Party Lines for Yes, Fetterman for No Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Rand Paul · Sen. John Fetterman | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | Comey Subpoenaed in DOJ 'Grand Conspiracy' Probe Targeting Obama-Era Intelligence Officials James Comey · Jason A. Reding Quinones · Judge Aileen Cannon · John Brennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | D.C. Circuit Allows DOJ to Proceed With Appeals Challenging Law Firm Executive Order Rulings D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · Jenner & Block · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | Pentagon Requests $200 Billion War Supplemental — Hegseth Says 'It Takes Money to Kill Bad Guys' Pete Hegseth · Pentagon · Congress | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | DNI Gabbard Admits Iran Was 'Not Rebuilding Enrichment' Before War — Omits Finding from Oral Testimony Tulsi Gabbard · John Ratcliffe · Kash Patel · Sen. Mark Warner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | Mullin DHS Confirmation Hearing Marked by Confrontation with Rand Paul and Shift on ICE Warrant Policy Markwayne Mullin · Sen. Rand Paul · Senate Homeland Security Committee | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | No Kings Coalition Confirms 3,000+ Events for March 28, Targeting 9 Million Participants No Kings Movement · Indivisible · MoveOn · ACLU · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | Wyden Accuses DAG Blanche of Blocking Unredacted DEA Memo on Epstein Drug Trafficking Investigation Sen. Ron Wyden · Todd Blanche · DEA | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | CREW Testifies Trump Corruption Weakens Government and Threatens National Security CREW · Donald Sherman · House Foreign Affairs Committee | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | Joe Kent Resigns as NCTC Director — 'Iran Posed No Imminent Threat, War Driven by Israel Lobby' Joe Kent · Donald Trump · National Counterterrorism Center | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | Maryland Senate Committee Advances "No Kings Act" Making Federal Agents Liable for Civil Rights Violations Maryland General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-16 | Republican Leadership Actively Avoids Public Hearings on Iran War Sen. John Thune · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-13 | Iran War Two-Week Assessment — 5,300+ Killed, $11B+ Spent, 3.2M Displaced U.S. Central Command · Hengaw Organization for Human Rights · Refugees International | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-13 | US Air Force Bombs Kharg Island Oil Hub, Strikes 90+ Military Targets Across Iran Donald Trump · U.S. Central Command · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Air Force | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | DOJ Proposes Rule Giving Attorney General Veto Power Over Bar Complaints Against Government Lawyers U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Ed Martin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | ICE Reveals $38.3 Billion Detention Expansion Plan for 92,600-Bed Mega-Center Network U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | Iran Launches New Wave of Gulf Attacks as Oil Prices Spike, Bahrain Reports Fuel Tank Strikes Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Islamic Republic of Iran · Bahrain Defense Force · Bapco Energies · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | New Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Issues First Statement Vowing Revenge and Permanent Hormuz Closure Mojtaba Khamenei · Islamic Republic of Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | UNHCR Reports 3.2 Million Iranians Displaced as UN Warns of "Humanitarian Explosion" United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · United Nations · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Department of Defense · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Evidence Points to US Tomahawk Strike on Minab Girls School Killing 170+, War Crime Investigation Demanded U.S. Central Command · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense Intelligence Agency · Pete Hegseth · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Iran Sets Ceasefire Conditions as China and Russia Launch Diplomatic Intervention Masoud Pezeshkian · Kazem Gharibabadi · Wang Yi · Zhai Jun · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Iran Strikes Cargo Ship in Strait of Hormuz, IRGC Vows "Not One Litre of Oil" to Pass Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Navy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Lead Prosecutor in DOJ Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell Replaced U.S. Department of Justice · Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Mullin DHS Confirmation Hearing Formally Scheduled for March 18 Amid Rand Paul Friction Markwayne Mullin · Rand Paul · Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Launches Section 301 Trade Probes to Rebuild Tariff Regime After Supreme Court Defeat Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · U.S. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | DOGE Spending Cuts Leave U.S. Government Hollowed Out as Iran War Escalates Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of State · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Hegseth Announces "Most Intense Day of Strikes" on Iran as US Targets Drone Manufacturing Pete Hegseth · Dan Caine · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Central Command · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Public Citizen Report Finds Trump Removed More Inspectors General Than All Prior Presidents Combined Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Inspector General · Public Citizen | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Senate Democrats Demand Public Hearings on Iran War After Closed Briefing Raises Alarms Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · Jacky Rosen · Pete Hegseth · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Washington Post Investigation Details How ICE Systematically Defied Court Orders During Minneapolis Enforcement Surge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Anthropic Files Dual Federal Lawsuits Challenging Pentagon's Supply Chain Risk Designation as Unconstitutional Retaliation Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Appeals Blocked Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, Claims Judges "Bent Over Backwards" to Rule Against Trump Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Pursues Retaliatory Investigations of Democratic Officials and Federal Reserve Chair U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeanine Pirro · Jerome Powell · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Releases Additional Epstein Files After NPR Investigation Exposes Withheld Trump-Related Documents U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Iran Launches Missiles and Drones at Gulf Nations and US Bases in Escalating Retaliation Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Central Command · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Rand Paul Schedules Mullin DHS Confirmation Hearing for March 18, Signals Tough Questioning Markwayne Mullin · Rand Paul · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Senate Democrats Demand Hegseth and Rubio Testify on Iran War, Threaten Repeated War Powers Votes Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Tim Kaine · Chris Murphy · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Iran Names Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader After Father Killed in US-Israeli Strike Mojtaba Khamenei · Iran Assembly of Experts · Islamic Republic of Iran · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Trump Threatens Legislative Blockade Until Congress Passes SAVE America Voter ID Act Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | DOJ Appeals Four Court Rulings Blocking Trump Executive Orders Targeting Political Opponent Law Firms U.S. Department of Justice · Jenner and Block · Perkins Coie · Susman Godfrey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | ICE Tells Court Its Minnesota Deployment Has Been Reduced to 47 Deportation Officers U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Jeffrey Bryan · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Iran's President Apologizes for Strikes on Neighbors While IRGC Continues Independent Military Operations, Revealing Leadership Split Masoud Pezeshkian · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Iran · Abbas Araghchi · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Hosts Shield of the Americas Summit at His Own Doral Resort, Launches Military Cartel Coalition Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Marco Rubio · Pete Hegseth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | War Enters Second Week as Trump Warns Iran "Will Be Hit Very Hard" and U.S. Evacuates Citizens from Middle East Donald Trump · U.S. Department of State · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | Anthropic Files Lawsuit Against Pentagon Over Unprecedented National Security Designation Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ and FBI National Security Divisions Decimated by Purges as U.S. Confronts Iran War U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation · Kash Patel · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Collapses to Two Lawyers, Gutting Federal Anti-Corruption Enforcement U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · U.S. Public Integrity Section | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | Post-Firing Analysis Details Five Major Controversies That Ended Noem's DHS Tenure Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | Trump Demands Iran's "Unconditional Surrender," Refuses Any Negotiated End to War Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · Masoud Pezeshkian · Pete Hegseth · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | 24 State Attorneys General Sue Trump Over New Tariffs After Supreme Court Struck Down Previous Ones New York Attorney General Letitia James · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | Anthropic Reopens Pentagon Talks as Defense Experts Warn Blacklist Sets Dangerous Precedent for AI Safety Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | House Judiciary Committee Passes Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, Threatening Federal Funding Cuts Tom McClintock · House Judiciary Committee · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | Iran Secretly Contacts CIA to Discuss End of War; Trump Says It Is "Too Late" for Talks Donald Trump · Central Intelligence Agency · Iran · Abbas Araghchi · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | Second Minnesota Federal Judge Threatens Contempt Against Feds Over ICE Detainees' Missing Property U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · Jeffrey Bryan | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | Trump Fires DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Names Sen. Markwayne Mullin as Replacement Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | Trump Fires Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary, Nominates Sen. Markwayne Mullin as Replacement Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Markwayne Mullin · Corey Lewandowski · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | U.S. Strikes Target Iran's Space and Remaining Nuclear Infrastructure as Campaign Enters Second Week U.S. Central Command · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Iran · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Democratic State AGs File Record 71 Lawsuits Against Trump Administration in First Year of Second Term Democratic State Attorneys General · New York Attorney General Letitia James · California Attorney General Rob Bonta · American Immigration Council | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | DHS $220 Million Self-Deportation Ad Campaign Faces Senate Scrutiny; Contracts Bypassed Competitive Bidding Kristi Noem · John Kennedy · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Safe America Media · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | House Rejects Iran War Powers Resolution 212-219, Completing Congress's Abdication of War Authority Mike Johnson · Thomas Massie · Warren Davidson · Jared Golden · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Internal ICE Data Exposes Vast Inflation in DHS Deportation Figures Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Iran Strikes Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar with Ballistic Missiles, Breaching U.S. Defense Shield Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Central Command · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Judge Bryan Weighs Contempt for U.S. Attorney Rosen Over ICE Property Seizures Jeffrey Bryan · Daniel Rosen · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | OPM Data Confirms Federal Workforce Shrunk 12% Under DOGE, 386,000 Positions Eliminated Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Personnel Management · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Pentagon Claims Iran's Navy Destroyed and Senior Naval Leadership Killed in Operation Epic Fury Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Central Command · Iran · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Pentagon Formally Designates Anthropic a National Security Supply-Chain Risk, First US Company So Labeled Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Pentagon Uses Banned Anthropic Claude to Select 1,000+ Iran Strike Targets While Simultaneously Blacklisting the Company Anthropic · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Senate Formally Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution 47-53, Ceding War Authority to Trump Tim Kaine · Chuck Schumer · Adam Schiff · Rand Paul · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Treasury, State, and HHS Begin Phasing Out Anthropic Products Following Trump Executive Directive Donald Trump · U.S. Department of the Treasury · U.S. Department of State · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | DOJ Drops Then Rapidly Reverses Course on Law Firm Retaliation Cases in Chaotic 24-Hour Reversal U.S. Department of Justice · Jenner and Block · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Iranian Drones Strike U.S. Embassy in Riyadh as War Spreads Across Middle East Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Department of State · U.S. Department of Defense · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Kash Patel Fires FBI Counterintelligence Unit That Tracked Iran, Days Before U.S. Strikes Kash Patel · U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | New Jersey Federal Judge Threatens Criminal Contempt After ICE Violates Transfer Orders 17 Times U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · Baljinder Kumar | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-02 | Iran Formally Declares Strait of Hormuz "Closed," Threatening to Destroy Any Transiting Vessel Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Ebrahim Jabari · Islamic Republic of Iran | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-21 | Post-SCOTUS Tariff Pivot: Trump Invokes Section 122 Global Tariff and Launches Section 301 Investigations as Legal Workaround Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Jamieson Greer · U.S. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | Analysis Shows Congress Rejected Nearly All DOGE Spending Cuts in FY2026 Budget Department of Government Efficiency · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | Trump Issues DOGE Deregulatory Executive Order Requiring 60-Day Regulatory Review at All Agencies Including Independent Bodies Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | Scott Shambaugh Firing Exposes DOGE's Indiscriminate Purge of Technical Expertise Scott Shambaugh · Department of Government Efficiency · National Institute of Standards and Technology · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | Trump Threatens Executive Order on Voter ID Despite Prior Court Defeats Donald Trump · White House · Chuck Schumer | confirmed |