Executive Power Expansion
The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 803 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1864–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-06 | Russell Vought implements Project 2025 chapter as OMB Director
4 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Attorney General Bondi Narrows FCPA Focus to Cartels While Pausing Corporate Bribery Cases
3 src Pamela Bondi · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. corporations | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Trump Administration Shuts Down KleptoCapture Task Force
4 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Merrick Garland · Gary Kalman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump Signs Executive Order Restoring 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign Against Iran
2 src Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | NOAA faces 27% budget cut with research office eliminated
4 src Trump Administration · NOAA · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Coalition of 22 State Attorneys General Secures Court Order Blocking Trump Federal Funding Freeze
3 src Letitia James · Judge John McConnell · 22 State Attorneys General · District of Columbia | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Paramount in settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Trump Crypto Dinner Offers Presidential Access for Top $TRUMP Coin Buyers
4 src Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Fight Fight Fight LLC · Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | Defense Secretary Revokes General Milley Security Detail in Political Retaliation
4 src Pete Hegseth · General Mark Milley · Pentagon Inspector General · Iranian Regime · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | OPM Sends "Fork in the Road" Email Offering 2 Million Federal Employees Deferred Resignation
4 src 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
4 src 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
5 src 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
3 src James McHenry · Jack Smith · Molly Gaston · J.P. Cooney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Brendan Carr chairs FCC after writing Project 2025 FCC chapter
4 src Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump pardons financial criminals including wire fraud convict and money launderers
3 src Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Financial criminals · Republican donors | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary in historic VP tiebreaker vote
3 src Pete Hegseth · JD Vance · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Trump fires 18 Inspectors General in unprecedented purge of government watchdogs
7 src 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
5 src JD Vance · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | Supreme Court stays Fifth Circuit's nationwide injunction of Corporate Transparency Act in McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop (shadow-docket order) 6 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | MAGA commissars deployed throughout federal agencies
3 src Trump Administration · Trump loyalists · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | National emergency declared at U.S. southern border
9 src 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
5 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Linda Fagan · Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Brings 42 Corporate Lobbying Clients into White House
3 src Susie Wiles · republic-services · swisher-international · northern-dynasty-minerals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Coordinated Federal Workforce Purge: Schedule F and DOJ Personnel Removal
4 src Donald Trump · Molly Gaston · J.P. Cooney · Anne McNamara · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Executive Order 14171: Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions (Schedule F)
5 src Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | J.D. Vance Inaugurated as 50th Vice President
3 src J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | JD Vance Sworn In as 50th Vice President, Positioned for Potential Constitutional Crisis Management
3 src JD Vance · Brett Kavanaugh · Donald Trump · Usha Vance · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump designates Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations
3 src Donald Trump · Secretary of State · Department of the Treasury · Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump eliminates ethics requirements and lobbying restrictions
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Public Citizen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Implements Unprecedented Wave of Project 2025 Executive Orders
3 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Project 2025 authors · Tom Homan · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs 37 executive orders on first day, implementing Project 2025 priorities
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · White House · United Nations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Comprehensive Immigration Executive Orders Package: Ends Asylum, Reinstates Remain in Mexico, Kills Parole Programs, Declares Border 'Invasion'
8 src Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs EO 14168: 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,' Mandating Federal Recognition of Only Two Sexes
6 src Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Education · Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs Executive Order 14148 rescinding 78 Biden directives
3 src Donald Trump · JD Vance · Domestic Policy Council · National Economic Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Unconstitutional Executive Order Challenging Birthright Citizenship
4 src Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. Supreme Court · Asian Law Caucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Kraken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Trump launches crypto memecoin days before inauguration
12 src Donald Trump · Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Systematic assault on judicial independence begins
4 src Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Law firms | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Trump's Second Term Tariff Exemptions Made in Secret Without Public Process
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Industry lobbyists · Reyes Holdings · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | McKinsey Pays $73 Million Final Settlement to South Africa in State Capture Resolution
3 src McKinsey & Company · South Africa National Prosecuting Authority · U.S. Department of Justice · McKinsey South Africa · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | PayPal Mafia Member David Sacks Named White House AI & Crypto Czar
5 src David Sacks · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol Declares Martial Law, Triggering Democratic Crisis
3 src Yoon Suk Yeol · South Korean National Assembly · South Korean protesters · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korean Democratic Resistance Against Presidential Martial Law
3 src Yoon Suk Yeol · Lee Jae-myung · South Korean Parliament · Civil Society Organizations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-01 | President Biden Issues Full Pardon for Son Hunter Despite Repeated Promises Not To
4 src Joe Biden · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-27 | Donald Trump Jr. Joins Unusual Machines Advisory Board, Receives 200,000 Shares, Stock Triples
5 src Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Allan Evans · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-22 | Judge Merchan Grants Indefinite Postponement of Trump Sentencing After Election Victory
4 src Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-19 | Texas offers Trump 1,402 acres for deportation facilities in "Jocelyn Initiative"
3 src Dawn Buckingham (TX Land Commissioner) · Donald Trump · Tom Homan · Greg Abbott · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Biden Uses Emergency Drawdown Authority 55 Times to Send $31.7B in Weapons to Ukraine
4 src Joe Biden · Pentagon · U.S. Congress · Ukraine · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-06 | Dick Cheney Endorses Democrat Kamala Harris, Calls Trump 'Greatest Threat to Republic'
4 src Dick Cheney · Kamala Harris · Donald Trump · Liz Cheney | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement
3 src Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. AI Safety Institute · NIST · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-13 | JD Vance Writes Foreword for Project 2025 Architect's Book
3 src JD Vance · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-30 | Paul Dans departs as Project 2025 director amid campaign controversy
4 src Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | Trump Selects Vance as VP Running Mate
3 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-11 | Judge Merchan Postpones Trump Sentencing to September After Supreme Court Immunity Ruling
4 src Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Dans Departs Project 2025, Kevin Roberts Takes Leadership
3 src Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Donald Trump · Chris LaCivita · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers
15 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Trump Immunity Ruling Institutionalizes WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent into Permanent Oligarchic Governance Framework
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Chief Justice John Roberts · Donald Trump · Justice Clarence Thomas · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Trump Convicted on All 34 Felony Counts - First Former President Convicted of Crimes in U.S. History
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | French officials dispute Noem's claim about canceling Macron meeting
3 src Kristi Noem · Emmanuel Macron · Élysée Palace | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-15 | First Criminal Trial of Former U.S. President Begins - Trump Faces 34 Felony Counts in Manhattan
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg · Todd Blanche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-26 | DJT Stock Begins Trading as Trump Owns Majority of $8.4 Billion Media Company
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · NYSE · Digital World Acquisition Corp · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Tunisia Dissolves Democratic Municipal Councils Under Authoritarian Consolidation
3 src Kais Saied · Tunisian municipal councils · Tunisian opposition · Ennahda party | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Boeing 737 MAX Scandal Summary - 346 Deaths, $2.5B Fine, Zero Executive Prosecutions
4 src Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · 346 crash victims · Dennis Muilenburg · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-08 | Fifth Circuit Finds Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Through Social Media Coercion
4 src Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · White House · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-14 | Fulton County DA Fani Willis Indicts Trump and 18 Co-Defendants on Georgia RICO Charges
4 src Donald Trump · Fani Willis · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-01 | Jack Smith Indicts Trump on 4 Federal Counts for January 6 Conspiracy to Overturn Election
4 src Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Mike Pence · Rudy Giuliani · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-08 | Trump indicted on 37 federal charges for classified documents
3 src Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Walt Nauta · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-01 | House Select Committee Exposes McKinsey Work for Chinese Military While Advising Pentagon
3 src McKinsey & Company · House Select Committee on the CCP · John Moolenaar · Marco Rubio · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-04 | Trump Arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Felony Counts
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-01 | Heritage Foundation launches Project 2025 initiative
4 src Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Mark Meadows · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-30 | Trump Indicted by Manhattan DA on 34 Felony Counts - First Criminal Indictment of President in U.S. History
4 src Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg · Michael Cohen · Stormy Daniels | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Jack Smith appointed Special Counsel to investigate Trump
3 src Jack Smith · Merrick Garland · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-22 | Federal Court Dismisses Abdulaziz Lawsuit, Rules McKinsey Had No Duty to Protect Dissident
3 src Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · U.S. District Court Southern District of New York · Second Circuit Court of Appeals | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-01 | Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Publish 'When McKinsey Comes to Town' Exposing Authoritarian Consulting
3 src Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago
3 src Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Merrick Garland · Bruce Reinhart · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022
3 src Ring · Amazon · Brian Huseman · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Heritage Foundation Launches 2 Million Project 2025 Initiative
3 src Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Steven Groves | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance
3 src Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Regulatory Agencies · Political Appointees · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | FDA Commissioner Confirmed Amid Pharmaceutical Industry Ties Controversy
3 src Robert Califf · United States Senate · FDA Leadership · Pharmaceutical Industry Executives | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-17 | National Archives retrieves 15 boxes with 184 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago
3 src Donald Trump · National Archives · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Supreme Court Blocks Biden OSHA Vaccine Mandate as Executive Overreach
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Joe Biden · Occupational Safety and Health Administration · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-03 | Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks
4 src International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · King Abdullah II of Jordan · Andrej Babiš · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-01 | Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering
4 src Stephen Hahn · Flagship Pioneering · Moderna · Food and Drug Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-27 | Dallas and Boston Fed Presidents Resign Over Trading Scandal
4 src Robert Kaplan · Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-08 | Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal
3 src Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · Robert Kaplan · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-07 | Dallas Fed President Kaplan Resigns Over Trading Controversy
3 src Robert Kaplan · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Jerome Powell · Eric Rosengren | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-26 | Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium as Unauthorized Executive Action
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Joe Biden · Alabama Association of Realtors | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Trump shows classified Iran attack plan at Bedminster, admits can't declassify
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Meadows · Trump staffers | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-15 | Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons
4 src Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Harry Sargeant III · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-09 | Second Impeachment Trial Begins with Constitutional Debate on Trying Former President
4 src Donald Trump · Patrick Leahy · Bruce Castor · David Schoen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-02 | Saudi Dissident Omar Abdulaziz's Lawsuit Against McKinsey Filed in Federal Court
3 src Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-25 | Supreme Court Dismisses All Trump Emoluments Cases as Moot
3 src US Supreme Court · Donald Trump · CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) · District of Columbia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-19 | Trump's Final Day Pardon Spree - 73 Pardons Including Bannon and Broidy
4 src Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Elliott Broidy · Ken Kurson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Boeing Pays $2.5 Billion in Deferred Prosecution Deal, Zero Executives Charged for 346 Deaths
4 src Department of Justice · Boeing · 346 crash victims · Victims' families · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | FBI forensics show Trump watched TV and tweeted instead of stopping Capitol riot
3 src Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jack Smith | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | January 6 Capitol Insurrection Represents Culmination of WHIG Constitutional Crisis Template Implementation for Oligarchic Governance Establishment
3 src Donald Trump · Proud Boys · Oath Keepers · Roger Stone · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Trump says "So what?" when told Pence evacuated for safety during Capitol riot
5 src Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Nick Luna · Dan Scavino | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-04 | Jeffrey Clark admits in Signal messages that classified briefing yielded "nothing helpful" for Trump
4 src Jeffrey Clark · Scott Perry · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed |