Capture lane

Executive Power Expansion

The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 819 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

819 events From Nov 29, 1864 To May 16, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1864–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2026-03-03New Jersey Federal Judge Threatens Criminal Contempt After ICE Violates Transfer Orders 17 Times 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-03-02Iran Formally Declares Strait of Hormuz "Closed," Threatening to Destroy Any Transiting Vessel 6 src
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Islamic Republic of Iran
confirmed
2026-02-24Trump Announces 'War on Fraud' at SOTU — Names Vance to Lead It 4 src
Donald Trump · J.D. Vance
confirmed
2026-02-21Post-SCOTUS Tariff Pivot: Trump Invokes Section 122 Global Tariff and Launches Section 301 Investigations as Legal Workaround 7 src
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Jamieson Greer · Department of the Treasury
confirmed
2026-02-19Analysis Shows Congress Rejected Nearly All DOGE Spending Cuts in FY2026 Budget 4 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Congress · +1
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2026-02-19Trump Issues DOGE Deregulatory Executive Order Requiring 60-Day Regulatory Review at All Agencies Including Independent Bodies 4 src
Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · +1
confirmed
2026-02-14Scott Shambaugh Firing Exposes DOGE's Indiscriminate Purge of Technical Expertise 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · National Institute of Standards and Technology · Elon Musk
confirmed
2026-02-14Trump Threatens Executive Order on Voter ID Despite Prior Court Defeats 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Chuck Schumer
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2026-02-13Jim O'Neill and Mike Stuart Depart HHS in Leadership Shakeup Ahead of Midterms 3 src
Jim O'Neill · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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2026-02-12One Year After DOGE Cuts, 322,000 Federal Workers Displaced in Largest Peacetime Workforce Reduction 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Russell Vought · Office of Personnel Management
confirmed
2026-02-06Trump Executive Order Authorizes Tariffs on All Iranian Trading Partners 2 src
Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce · Department of State
confirmed
2026-02-06Trump Executive Order Reorients Arms Sales as Domestic Industrial Policy 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Defense · Department of State · +1
confirmed
2026-02-05Federal Judge Orders Elon Musk Deposition Over USAID Dismantling, Rejects Apex Doctrine Claims 3 src
Elon Musk · United States Agency for International Development · Department of Government Efficiency · Marco Rubio
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2026-02-05Russell Vought Tells Congress DOGE Affiliates Are "Institutionalized" as OMB In-House Consultants 3 src
Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk
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2026-01-30Analysis Shows DOGE Savings Claims Fall Short of $1 Trillion Target, Cost Taxpayers Billions 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Russell Vought
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2026-01-30Federal Courts Issue Multiple Permanent Injunctions Blocking Trump's Anti-Voting Executive Order 5 src
U.S. District Court · American Civil Liberties Union · Brennan Center for Justice · Democracy Docket · +3
confirmed
2026-01-29Federal Grand Jury Indicts Nine Cities Church Protesters Under 18 U.S.C. § 241 and FACE Act; Superseding Indictment Expands to 39 Defendants 8 src
Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice
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2026-01-28Vought Allocates $15 Million in USAID Funds for Personal Security Detail Through 2026 3 src
Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · United States Agency for International Development · U.S. Marshals Service
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2026-01-27Federal Employment Hits Lowest Level Since 1966 as DOGE Reductions Take Hold 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Office of Personnel Management · Elon Musk
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2026-01-27Trump Executive Order Authorizes Federal Preemption of California Rebuilding Regulations 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Small Business Administration
confirmed
2026-01-23NPR Report Reveals Trump Administration Admits DOGE Accessed Personal Social Security Data Beyond Legal Authority 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Social Security Administration · NPR
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2026-01-22Maryland Man Arrested on Attempted Murder Charges After Appearing at OMB Director Vought's Home 3 src
Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget
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2026-01-20DOJ Court Filing Confirms DOGE Shared Social Security Data to Unauthorized Server 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Department of Justice · Social Security Administration · Elon Musk
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2026-01-20Trump Executive Order Directs Restrictions on Institutional Investor Home Purchases 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Department of the Treasury · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · +2
confirmed
2026-01-16DOJ Files Notice of Corrections in AFSCME v. SSA Admitting DOGE Unauthorized SSA Data Access — Key Prosecutorial Predicate for State Computer-Crime Charges 3 src
Social Security Administration · Department of Justice
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2026-01-16SSA Reveals DOGE Staffers Misused Social Security Data, Signed Secret Voter Roll Agreement While Under Court Order 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Social Security Administration
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2026-01-15Bradford County FL Commissioners Vote 3-2 to Advance Sabot IGSA Proposal for 3,000-Bed ICE Detention Campus 5 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-01-15Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act in Minneapolis, Calls Protesters 'Highly Paid Professionals' 2 src
Donald Trump · Keith Ellison · Tim Walz
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2026-01-12Treasury Secretary Bessent Tells Trump Powell Criminal Investigation 'Made a Mess' 2 src
Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell
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2026-01-08DNI Tulsi Gabbard Excluded from Venezuela Operation Planning - Aides Joke 'Do Not Invite' 2 src
Tulsi Gabbard · Donald Trump · Marco Rubio
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2025-12-31Ninth Circuit Forces Trump to Return California National Guard Control to State 4 src
Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · Charles Breyer
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2025-12-25US Launches Christmas Day Strikes on Nigerian Villages, ISIS Claims Questioned by Residents and Analysts 2 src
Donald Trump
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2025-12-22Venezuela Naval Blockade Kills 105 in 29 Strikes as Trump Refuses to Rule Out War 12 src
Donald Trump · Nicolas Maduro · Stephen Miller · Pete Hegseth · +3
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2025-12-19DHS Releases Year-End Report Claiming 'Most Secure Border in History' While Touting 2.5 Million Departures and Record Drug Seizures 3 src
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3
confirmed
2025-12-19Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Emergency Request to Silence Immigration Judges, First Major Loss on Shadow Docket 4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Leonie Brinkema · +1
confirmed
2025-12-18FY 2026 NDAA Repeals 1991 and 2002 Iraq AUMFs — First War-Authorization Repeal Since 1971 Serves as Cover for Capture-Relevant Bundle 4 src
U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Tim Kaine · Donald Trump · +2
confirmed
2025-12-18FY 2026 NDAA Section 8335 Codifies EO 14033 Western Balkans Sanctions, Creates Regulatory Frame Around Kushner Belgrade/Sazan Architecture 12 src
U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jeanne Shaheen · +6
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2025-12-16Border Patrol Chief Bovino Returns to Chicago, Promises Federal Agents 'For Years' 2 src
Gregory Bovino · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
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2025-12-07ICE Data Reveals 75,000 Arrests Had No Criminal History in Quota-Driven Dragnet 5 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Stephen Miller · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Deportation Data Project · +1
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2025-12-05Supreme Court Grants Review of Trump's Birthright Citizenship Challenge, Setting Stage for Constitutional Crisis 5 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · American Civil Liberties Union · +3
disputed
2025-12-04Appeals Court Halts Removal of National Guard from Washington DC, Preserving Militarized Presence in Capital 6 src
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · Donald Trump · D.C. National Guard
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2025-12-04Brad Parscale Secretly Advised Honduran Right-Wing Candidate as Trump Endorsed Her and Pardoned Convicted Narco-President 7 src
Donald Trump · Juan Orlando Hernández
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2025-12-04DHS Announces Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, Largest Immigration Enforcement Operation in U.S. History 6 src
Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kristi Noem · Tom Homan · +3
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2025-12-04Trump's 1,600+ Clemency Grants Bypass DOJ Review as 13 Recipients Re-Arrested for New Crimes 7 src
Donald Trump · Ed Martin · House Judiciary Committee Democrats · Jamie Raskin
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2025-12-0325% of Foreign Service Officers Resigned or Forced Out, Diplomatic Corps Collapses 7 src
Department of State
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2025-12-03Bovino Launches 'Operation Catahoula Crunch' in New Orleans, Texts 'We Are a Massive Wrecking Crew' 4 src
Gregory Bovino · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
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2025-12-03DOJ Sues Six Additional States Demanding Protected Voter Registration Data 7 src
Department of Justice · Pamela Bondi · Maryland · Brennan Center for Justice · +1
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2025-12-03Pentagon IG Finds Hegseth Shared SECRET//NOFORN Classified Information on Signal, Violated National Security Protocols 7 src
Pete Hegseth · J.D. Vance · Admiral Frank Bradley · Jack Reed · +2
disputed
2025-12-03Treasury Secretary Proposes White House Veto Power Over Federal Reserve Regional Bank Presidents 7 src
Scott Bessent · Department of the Treasury · Federal Reserve · Jerome Powell · +1
confirmed
2025-11-30Kristi Noem Denies Defying Court Order on National Television, Calls Judges "Activist" 4 src
Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · NBC News · +1
confirmed
2025-11-26DOJ Reveals Kristi Noem Made Final Decision to Defy Judge's Order on El Salvador Deportation Flights 6 src
Kristi Noem · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · +1
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2025-11-24Trump Signs Executive Order Initiating Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Process 5 src
Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · Scott Bessent
confirmed
2025-11-21Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Resignation After Trump Calls Her "Traitor" Over Epstein Files 3 src
Marjorie Taylor Greene · Donald Trump · Ro Khanna
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2025-11-19DOJ Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment; Trump's Former Personal Attorney Leading Prosecution 3 src
James Comey · Lindsey Halligan · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · +1
reported
2025-11-18House Votes 427-1 to Force Release of Epstein Files, Rebuking Trump's Opposition 3 src
U.S. House of Representatives · United States Senate · Mike Johnson · Donald Trump · +5
confirmed
2025-11-18Six Democratic Congress Members Release Video Reminding Military of Constitutional Duty to Refuse Illegal Orders 2 src
Elissa Slotkin · Mark Kelly · Jason Crow · Chris DeLuzio · +7
reported
2025-11-15Bondi Announces New Epstein Investigation Days Before House Vote, Creating Cover for Redactions 5 src
Pam Bondi · Jay Clayton · Donald Trump · Thomas Massie · +4
reported
2025-11-15Bovino Launches 'Operation Charlotte's Web' in North Carolina, 250+ Arrests as 30,000 Students Stay Home 4 src
Gregory Bovino · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
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2025-11-14ProPublica Investigation Exposes Hidden Corruption in Noem's $220M DHS Ad Campaign 4 src
Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Tricia McLaughlin · Madison Sheahan · +2
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2025-11-14Trump Orders DOJ via Truth Social to Investigate Political Opponents Over Epstein Ties 4 src
Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Bill Clinton · Larry Summers · +3
reported
2025-11-13Epstein Files Discharge Petition Ripens at 218 Signatures Despite Intense Trump Pressure Campaign 5 src
Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · Lauren Boebert · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +3
confirmed
2025-11-12House Democrats Release Epstein Estate Emails Documenting Trump-Victim Contact and Trafficking Knowledge 5 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · Michael Wolff
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2025-11-12House Republicans Release 20,000+ Epstein Pages in Response to Democrat Emails, Accuse "Cherry-Picking" 3 src
U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Jeffrey Epstein · Donald Trump · +4
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2025-11-12Rep. Adelita Grijalva Sworn In as 218th Signature on Epstein Files Discharge Petition, Forces Mandatory Vote 4 src
Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · Mike Johnson · House Democrats
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2025-11-12Rep. Lauren Boebert Summoned to White House Situation Room Over Epstein Files Petition 4 src
Lauren Boebert · Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Kash Patel · +2
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2025-11-10Trump Issues Veterans Day 2025 Proclamation Emphasizing Tax Cuts and Homeless Veteran Housing 3 src
Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-11-10Trump Pardons 77 Allies Who Attempted to Overturn 2020 Election Including Giuliani, Meadows, and Fake Electors 6 src
Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · Sidney Powell · +5
confirmed
2025-11-06SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Trump v. Orr clears State Department passport policy requiring sex-at-birth marker 3 src confirmed
2025-11-06Trump Pardons Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and Chief of Staff Convicted of Federal Corruption 3 src
Donald Trump
reported
2025-11-04DOJ Escalates Investigation of 66-Year-Old Activist for Distributing Stephen Miller Protest Fliers 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Secret Service · Stephen Miller
reported
2025-11-04FBI Agents Association Issues Unprecedented Rebuke: Patel "Disregarded the Law" in Campaign of Retribution 3 src
Kash Patel · Pam Bondi
confirmed
2025-11-04Trump Issues Executive Orders Modifying China Tariff Rates and Fentanyl-Related Duties 3 src
Trump · White House
reported
2025-10-30Trump Officials Flee to Military Bases: Miller, Noem, Hegseth, Rubio Create Militarized "Green Zone" 3 src
Charlie Kirk · Kristi Noem · Marco Rubio · Pete Hegseth · +1
confirmed
2025-10-29Supreme Court to Review Trump's Federalization of National Guard in Chicago, Nationwide Implications 3 src
Donald Trump · JB Pritzker · U.S. Supreme Court
confirmed
2025-10-28Trump Purges 12 ICE Field Directors, Replaces with Border Patrol Loyalists to Escalate Deportations 3 src
Donald Trump · Gregory Bovino · Kristi Noem · Stephen Miller · +3
confirmed
2025-10-27DHS Posts Halo Video Game Image Comparing Immigrants to Parasitic Aliens Requiring Extermination 4 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kaelan Dorr · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · White House
confirmed
2025-10-27Trump Suggests Running as VP to Circumvent Constitutional Term Limits 2 src
Donald Trump · Steve Bannon
confirmed
2025-10-25MAGA-Aligned Lobbying Firms Quadruple Revenue Selling Trump Access 2 src
Brian Ballard · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-10-24Pentagon Awards Drone Contract to Company Where Trump Jr. Holds $4 Million Stake 2 src
Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Pentagon · U.S. Army · +1
confirmed
2025-10-23Billionaire Timothy Mellon's $130M Military Donation During Shutdown Raises Oligarchy Concerns 3 src
Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Pentagon
reported
2025-10-23Energy Secretary Wright invokes rare DOE-over-FERC directive authority to compel ANOPR on large-load interconnection — Docket RM26-4-000 — final action ordered by April 30 2026 6 src
Chris Wright · Department of Energy
confirmed
2025-10-22Trump Obsession with $300M Ballroom: Demolishes Historic East Wing While Miller and Vought Run Government 3 src
Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Russ Vought
confirmed
2025-10-22Trump Orders Demolition of Historic White House East Wing for Personal Ballroom 2 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department · White House Staff
confirmed
2025-10-21Russ Vought Emerges as "Shadow President" Running Government During Trump Disengagement 3 src
Russ Vought · Donald Trump · Stephen Miller
confirmed
2025-10-20Secret Interagency Working Group Coordinates Trump Retaliation Against Political Opponents 2 src
Pam Bondi · Tulsi Gabbard · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice · +2
confirmed
2025-10-20Trump Hosts $250 Million White House Ballroom Fundraiser with Defense and Tech Executives 2 src
Donald Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +2
confirmed
2025-10-19Federal Prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi Fired After Refusing to Charge NY AG Letitia James 3 src
Elizabeth Yusi · Letitia James · Trump · Department of Justice
reported
2025-10-18Trump Posts AI Video Dumping Feces on 7 Million "No Kings" Protesters, Defended by Johnson and Vance as "Satire" 4 src
Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · J.D. Vance · protesters
confirmed
2025-10-16Pentagon Strips Press Credentials After Hegseth Imposes Rules Labeling Journalists as Security Risks 5 src
Pete Hegseth · Department of Defense · New York Times · Associated Press · +3
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2025-10-15Trump Executive Order Extends Hiring Freeze with Political Approval Requirements 2 src
Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management
reported
2025-10-15Trump Requires Political Loyalty Tests for All Federal Hiring 3 src
Donald Trump · Political Appointees · Federal Agencies
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2025-10-09Senate Confirms Jennifer Mascott to Third Circuit Court of Appeals 3 src
U.S. Senate · Donald Trump · Federalist Society
reported
2025-10-08Border Czar Tom Homan Allegedly Took $50,000 in FBI Corruption Sting 2 src
Tom Homan · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Emil Bove · +1
reported
2025-10-07Attorney General Bondi Testifies Before Senate Amid Accusations of DOJ Weaponization 3 src
Pam Bondi · Senate Judiciary Committee · Department of Justice · Dick Durbin · +2
reported
2025-10-07Jonathan Berry — Project 2025 DOL Chapter Author — Confirmed Solicitor of Labor 4 src
U.S. Senate
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2025-10-07Palantir Senior Advisor Jacob Helberg Confirmed as Under Secretary of State (51-47) 5 src
Jacob Helberg · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · +4
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2025-10-07Senate Confirms Michael Stuart as HHS General Counsel — First Former U.S. Attorney in the Role; Single Most Comprehensive Palantir Disclosure Exposure in the HHS Cluster 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · Department of Health and Human Services
confirmed
2025-10-05Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman Negotiates Harvard Research Funding Restoration 3 src
Blackstone · Harvard University · White House · Trump Administration
reported
2025-10-05White House Blocks $2.1 Billion Chicago Transit Funding as Political Retaliation 3 src
Trump Administration · White House
reported
2025-10-04Trump Targets Corporate Deals Across 30+ Industries Before Midterm Elections 2 src
Trump Administration · Pfizer · Eli Lilly · AstraZeneca · +1
reported