Executive Power Expansion
The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 803 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
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10 actors · 1864–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-29 | YouTube Pays Trump $24.5M to Settle Suspension Lawsuit, $22M for White House Ballroom
2 src Donald Trump · YouTube · Google · Meta · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | POGO Exposes Ballard Partners Clients Winning No-Bid ICE Biometric Surveillance Contracts
3 src Ballard Partners · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Signs Executive Order Approving TikTok Deal with Oracle Partnership
3 src Donald Trump · White House · Oracle · ByteDance · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Signs NSPM-7 Labeling Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity, and 'Anti-Americanism' as Domestic Terrorism Indicators
5 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · JTTF · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-21 | Charlie Kirk Memorial Service - Trump and Musk Publicly Reconcile
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Turning Point USA · Charlie Kirk | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-20 | Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney Erik Siebert Resigns Under Trump Pressure to Charge Letitia James
2 src Erik Siebert · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Letitia James · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump Signs 'Gold Card' Visa Executive Order Requiring $1-2 Million Payments
2 src Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce | reported | |
| 2025-09-08 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo permits ICE to use ethnicity, Spanish fluency, location, and occupation as reasonable-suspicion factors 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-05 | Trump Creates 'State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention' Designation via Executive Order
3 src Donald Trump · White House · Department of State | reported | |
| 2025-09-05 | Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Pentagon as 'Department of War'
3 src Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-03 | Military Jets Drown Out Epstein Survivors Press Conference at Capitol
3 src Epstein survivors · Donald Trump · U.S. Air Force · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-02 | Federal Judge Charles Breyer Rules Trump's LA National Guard Deployment Violated Posse Comitatus Act in Bench-Trial Decision Charles Breyer · Gavin Newsom · Rob Bonta · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-01 | Mass Inspector General Firings Implement Project 2025 Plan
3 src Donald Trump · Chuck Grassley · Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-28 | Trump Executive Order Mandates Classical Architecture for Federal Buildings
2 src Donald Trump · White House · General Services Administration | reported | |
| 2025-08-27 | US Imposes 50% Tariff on India for Buying Russian Oil, Exempts Apple
3 src Donald Trump · india-government · Apple Inc. · Russia | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Creates Specialized National Guard Units for Domestic Deployment
4 src Donald Trump · National Guard | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Orders Prosecution of Flag Burning Despite Supreme Court Ruling
3 src Donald Trump · White House · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Signs Executive Order Creating Specialized DC National Guard Unit Deputized to Enforce Federal Law and Standing Nationwide Quick Reaction Force Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Stephen Miller · DC National Guard · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Signs Executive Orders Eliminating Cashless Bail, Threatening Federal Funds
3 src Donald Trump · White House · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-21 | EO 14338 Creates National Design Studio — ndstudio.gov Registered Same Morning Before Formal Signing (Pre-EO Infrastructure Positioning)
5 src Donald Trump · Joe Gebbia · Susie Wiles · [VACANT] NDS Administrator | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-21 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in NIH v. American Public Health Association clears DEI-flagged grant terminations (Tucker Act routing) 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-15 | Trump Attempts DC Police Takeover with Loyalist, Blocked by Federal Judge
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Terry Cole · Pamela Smith · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-14 | Trump Eliminates SpaceX Environmental Safeguards via Executive Order
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Department of Transportation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Military preparing to activate hundreds of D.C. National Guard members
4 src Donald Trump · DC National Guard · West Virginia National Guard · South Carolina National Guard · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-08 | EPA Terminates Union Contracts Following Appellate Stays
3 src 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.
3 src Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Marshals Service · Federal Protective Service | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Paramount-Skydance Merger Completes After FCC Approval
4 src Paramount Global · Skydance Media · David Ellison · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Executive Order Places Federal Grants Under Political Appointee Control
3 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · Federal Register | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Signs Executive Order Prohibiting 'Debanking' Based on Political Views
2 src Donald Trump · White House · Federal Reserve · FDIC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Publishes Official List of 35 "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions, Escalating Federal-State Confrontation Over Immigration Enforcement
3 src Department of Justice · Donald Trump · 13 Sanctuary States · 18 Sanctuary Cities | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | Trump Sons Launch $300M SPAC Targeting US Manufacturing Revival
3 src Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Kevin McGurn · Kyle Wool | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-03 | Texas House Democrats flee to Illinois to break quorum on redistricting
9 src 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
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Pfizer CEO attending $25 million fundraiser at Trump's golf club after president demands drug price cuts, sources say
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump administration defies court orders in 57 of 165 cases (35%)
3 src Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · U.S. District Judge John McConnell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-31 | White House Announces $200M State Ballroom Construction Project
3 src Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · McCrery Architects · Clark Construction · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | Senate Committee Advances Bill Banning Congressional Stock Trading
3 src Donald Trump · Josh Hawley · Rick Scott | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | Trump to Host 2026 G20 Summit at Doral Resort, Reviving Controversial Hosting Attempt
3 src Donald Trump · Kevin Hassett · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | White House Releases Comprehensive Crypto Policy Roadmap
3 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · David Sacks · U.S. Treasury Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Texas Legislature passes redistricting without Democrats present
5 src Texas Legislature · Texas Republicans · Greg Abbott · Texas House Democrats · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | Trump signs Executive Order 'Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure' — 100 MW threshold, NEPA categorical-exclusion creation directive, <50% federal-financial-assistance carve-out from NEPA 'major Federal action'
7 src Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Chris Wright · Doug Burgum · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | White House releases 'Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan' — 90+ federal policy initiatives across innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy pillars; companion to datacenter permitting EO
5 src Donald Trump · David Sacks · Howard Lutnick · Chris Wright · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-21 | Trump Administration Defying 35% of Court Orders in Unprecedented Constitutional Crisis
4 src Trump Administration · Federal Courts · Department of Justice · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-20 | California announces defensive mid-cycle redistricting in response to Texas
4 src California Legislature · Gavin Newsom · California Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Trump demands Texas conduct mid-cycle redistricting for 5 new GOP seats
4 src Donald Trump · Greg Abbott · Texas Legislature | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-12 | Bondi Fires 20 Justice Department Employees Tied to Trump Prosecutions
3 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Trump Prosecutors · January 6 Prosecutors · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | Trump Foreign Aid Policy Sparks Global Lobbying Surge
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marco Rubio · US Lobbying Firms | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | White House Officials Own Cryptocurrency Assets in Proposed National Crypto Reserve
3 src Donald Trump · Ian Kelley · White House Staff | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Supreme Court lifts injunctions, enables mass firings at 19 federal agencies
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Agencies · General Services Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | 2.4 million Americans projected to lose SNAP benefits from expanded work requirements
4 src Trump Administration · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | OBBBA Signed — $45B ICE Detention + $29.85B Enforcement Appropriations Through FY2029 Fund $38.3B Detention Reengineering Initiative
7 src Donald Trump · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Vance Casts Tiebreaker Passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Enabling Event for Project 2025 Treasury/Tax Chapter and Endowment-Tax Implementation
7 src JD Vance · Donald Trump · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | Federal Judiciary Admits Systemic Failure in Presidential Accountability Mechanisms
3 src Federal Judiciary Leadership · Chief Justice · Judicial Conference · Senate Judiciary Committee | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | Federal Judiciary Develops New Constitutional Enforcement Mechanisms
3 src Federal Judiciary · Judicial Conference · Administrative Office of U.S. Courts · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-27 | Supreme Court Restricts Nationwide Injunctions in Trump v. CASA, Expanding Executive Power
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · CASA de Maryland | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Trump Fires Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Raising Concerns About Regulatory Capture
3 src Donald Trump · Christopher Hanson · Trent Morse · Nuclear Regulatory Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-20 | Ninth Circuit Again Allows Trump to Retain Control of CA Guard
4 src Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Donald Trump · California National Guard | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-20 | Ninth Circuit extends stay keeping LA Guard/Marine deployment in place
4 src U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-20 | Trump Family Launches World Liberty Financial Cryptocurrency Venture
3 src Donald Trump · Barron Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-19 | Trump Company Reduces Stake in Crypto Venture World Liberty Financial
3 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff · Justin Sun · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-16 | Trump Organization Announces Trump Mobile: $499 Smartphone and $47.45 Monthly Plan
3 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Federal Judicial System Faces Unprecedented Integrity Challenge
3 src Margaret Satterthwaite · UN Special Rapporteur · Supreme Court Justices · Sen. Cory Booker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Trump Officials' Extensive Financial Conflicts Exposed in Comprehensive Report
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Sean Duffy · Lori Chavez-DeRemer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-14 | "No Kings" protests draw 5 million people in 2,100+ locations
5 src Civil Society Organizations · Protest movements · American Civil Liberties Union · MoveOn · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-13 | Ninth Circuit Stays District Court Ruling Against LA Deployment
4 src Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Judge Charles Breyer · California National Guard · US Marines | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-13 | Trump Discloses $57 Million in Crypto Earnings from World Liberty Financial
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-12 | Federal judge says Los Angeles Guard/Marine deployment likely unlawful
4 src U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) · State of California · Governor Gavin Newsom · U.S. Department of Defense · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-11 | Trump announces FEMA elimination plan after 2025 hurricane season
4 src Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · White House · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-09 | Trump federalizes California National Guard over governor's objection
4 src Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · California National Guard | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-07 | California National Guard Federalized and Deployed to Los Angeles
5 src Donald Trump · California National Guard · US Marines · Governor of California · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | Communist Party Adviser Purchases Trump Memecoin for VIP Dinner Access
6 src Donald Trump · He Tianying · Justin Sun · Adam Schiff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in U.S. DOGE Service v. CREW narrows FOIA discovery against DOGE, shielding internal operations 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Thiel Foundation CEO Jim O'Neill Confirmed as HHS Deputy Secretary (52-43)
6 src Jim O'Neill · Peter Thiel · Thiel Foundation · Thiel Capital · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | This is how much Trump has made from crypto—so far
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-04 | 59,000 Federal Jobs Officially Eliminated by June 2025, True Scope Far Larger as DOGE Campaign Transforms Government Workforce
4 src Donald Trump · DOGE · Elon Musk · Office of Personnel Management · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-04 | Trump Expands Travel Ban to 19 Countries and Bans Harvard Students from Entry
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Harvard University · Department of State | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Federal workforce shrinks by 59,000 jobs with 154,000 on paid leave
4 src Trump Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Office of Personnel Management · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Gabbard Replaces Intelligence Community Inspector General's Counsel with Her Own Adviser
3 src Tulsi Gabbard · Christopher Fox | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem directive demands 3,000 daily ICE arrests
5 src Stephen Miller · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-31 | Bono Confronts Joe Rogan Over Trump Administration USAID Cuts, Calls Them "Evil" - Influences Rogan's Subsequent Trump Criticism
3 src Bono · Joe Rogan · Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-31 | Federal judges face 373 threats in first five months of 2025
4 src Federal judges · U.S. Marshals Service · Trump supporters | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-31 | Trump pardons drive a big, burgeoning business for lobbyists
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Paramount settles Trump '60 Minutes' lawsuit for $16 million
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Trump Pardons Become Explicitly Political with 'No MAGA Left Behind' Directive
3 src Donald Trump · Ed Martin · Scott Jenkins | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Trump Pardons Ex-Rep. Michael Grimm, Highlighting Political Clemency Campaign
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Grimm · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-27 | Donald Trump’s media conglomerate is becoming a bitcoin reserve
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-23 | Trump's crypto dinner guests admit they're trying to buy him off
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Congressmen Sean Casten · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | SCOTUS 6-3 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. Wilcox greenlights presidential removal of NLRB and MSPB members, effectively narrowing Humphrey's Executor 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | Trump hosts exclusive $148M cryptocurrency investor dinner at private golf club
4 src Donald Trump · $TRUMP coin holders · World Liberty Financial · Justin Sun · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-21 | Stephen Miller demands 3,000 daily ICE arrests, triggers leadership purge
3 src Stephen Miller · Kristi Noem · Corey Lewandowski · Kenneth Genalo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-21 | U.S. Accepts Qatar's $400 Million Boeing 747 Jet, Raising Emoluments Concerns
3 src Donald Trump · Qatar Royal Family · U.S. Department of Defense · Jamie Raskin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-19 | DOJ Settles Ashli Babbitt Lawsuit for $5 Million, Sparking Law Enforcement Controversy
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Capitol Police · Tom Manger | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-19 | Sean Duffy Sold Stocks Before Trump's Tariff Announcement, Revealing Potential Insider Trading
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sean Duffy · Transportation Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-18 | Supreme Court Hearing Challenges Presidential National Guard Federalization Powers
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · State Governors · U.S. Department of Defense · California Governor · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-15 | 4.3 million workers could lose overtime protections
4 src Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-15 | Donald Trump Jr.'s transformation into Washington power broker
4 src Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-15 | Political committees have spent $675K at Trump properties since Trump's reelection
3 src Donald Trump · Republican National Committee · Republican House Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Chief Magistrate Judge Gregory B. Wormuth (D.N.M.) Begins Dismissing Federal Military-Trespass Charges at Probable-Cause Stage; 98-Case Mass Dismissal on May 15 Exposes Knowledge-Standard Flaw in NDA Architecture
7 src Gregory B. Wormuth · Ryan Ellison · Amanda Skinner · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Gabbard Fires Two Career Intelligence Officials Whose Venezuela Assessment Contradicted White House
4 src Tulsi Gabbard · Michael Collins · Maria Langan-Riekhof · Donald Trump | confirmed |