Legislative Capture
The Legislative Capture capture lane traces 659 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1787–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-22 | CREW Exposes OMB Hiding Spending Controls Through Secret 'Footnote' Agreements
2 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Federal Judge Allows Trump to Eliminate 1,600 NSF Grants Worth $1 Billion
2 src Donald Trump · Department of Government Efficiency · National Science Foundation · Federal Judiciary | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Senate Republicans Vote 51-49 to Block Full Epstein Files Disclosure
3 src Senate Republicans · Chuck Schumer · Josh Hawley · Rand Paul · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Senator Wyden Introduces Legislation to Force Treasury Release of Epstein Records
2 src Ron Wyden · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-08 | House Oversight Committee Releases Epstein Birthday Book with Trump Contributions Including "Fully Depreciated Woman" Check Photo
3 src Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Joel Pashcow · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-08 | Missouri GOP Passes Mid-Decade Gerrymander to Eliminate Democratic Congressional Seat
3 src Missouri GOP legislature · Representative Emmanuel Cleaver · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 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 | Rep. Thomas Massie Files Discharge Petition to Force House Vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act
2 src Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · Mike Johnson · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-29 | OMB Director Russell Vought Inserts Political Conditions Into 100+ Budget Accounts, Blocking Congressional Appropriations
2 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | Trump Invokes 'Pocket Rescission' to Claw Back $4.9 Billion in Congressionally Approved Foreign Aid
3 src Trump · State Department · United States Agency for International Development · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-08-27 | India Hires Mercury Public Affairs for $75,000/Month Amid Trump Tariff Threats
2 src India · Mercury Public Affairs · Susie Wiles · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-20 | FHFA's Pulte Expands Mortgage Fraud Accusations to Schiff and Letitia James
3 src William Pulte · Adam Schiff · Letitia James · fhfa · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Nexstar-Tegna $6.2 Billion Merger Creates Media Giant Reaching 80% of US Households
3 src nexstar-media-group · tegna · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | OMB Director Vought Blocks Billions in Congressional Appropriations, Claims Unilateral Spending Power
3 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump | 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 | 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 | EPA Cancels Solar for All Grants Program
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | GAO says NIH grant delays violated the Impoundment Control Act
4 src Government Accountability Office (GAO) · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health (NIH) | 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 | |
| 2025-07-29 | Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Gaza "Genocide" - First GOP Lawmaker to Use Term
3 src Marjorie Taylor Greene · Republican Party · Israel | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | House Speaker Johnson Shuts Down Congress Early to Block Epstein Files Vote
3 src Mike Johnson · Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | Senate Investigation Reveals Epstein's Billion-Dollar Russian Bank Transfers Linked to Trafficking
4 src U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Jeffrey Epstein · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | Senate Appropriators Reject House Proposal to Halve GAO Budget
4 src US Senate · Senate Appropriations Committee · Government Accountability Office (GAO) | 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 | |
| 2025-07-04 | Musk's Lobbying Team Secures Sweeping Legislative Wins in Texas
3 src Elon Musk · SpaceX Lobbyists · Tesla Lobbyists · Greg Abbott · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Trump Signs 'One Big Beautiful Bill' Into Law: $911 Billion in Medicaid Cuts, 11.8 Million Projected to Lose Coverage
6 src Donald Trump · JD Vance · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | DHS ends sensitive locations policy allowing ICE arrests at churches and schools
5 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump | 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 | Senate Passes $4.5 Trillion Tax Cuts with $1 Trillion Medicaid Cuts, 12 Million to Lose Insurance
20 src United States Senate · J.D. Vance · Ron Wyden · Congressional Budget Office | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | House Proposes Nearly 50% Budget Cut for GAO
4 src US House of Representatives · Government Accountability Office (GAO) · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-21 | Trump systematically dismantles post-Watergate institutional safeguards
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-14 | Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and Husband Assassinated, Senator John Hoffman and Wife Wounded
4 src Melissa Hortman (victim, killed) · Mark Hortman (victim, killed) · John Hoffman (victim, wounded) · Yvette Hoffman (victim, wounded) · +2 | 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 | Ex-Congressman Billy Long Confirmed as IRS Commissioner Despite Controversy
3 src Donald Trump · Billy Long · Ron Wyden · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-12 | Senator Alex Padilla Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed by FBI
3 src Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) · DHS Secretary Kristi Noem · FBI police officers · U.S. Secret Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested During Federal Operation
3 src David Huerta · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · SEIU · Federal Law Enforcement | 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 | |
| 2025-05-19 | Sean Duffy Sold Stocks Before Trump's Tariff Announcement, Revealing Potential Insider Trading
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sean Duffy · Transportation Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-15 | Donald Trump Jr.'s transformation into Washington power broker
4 src Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-10 | Trump, raking in cash, expands his power in the G.O.P. money world
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | SEC Reaches Controversial Settlement with Ripple Labs
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Bradley Garlinghouse · Christian Larsen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Congressional Hearing Exposes Systematic Judicial Intimidation Tactics
4 src Senate Judiciary Committee · Chief Justice John Roberts · U.S. Marshals Service · Supreme Court Justices · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Trump Justice Dept. to settle Babbitt family lawsuit in fatal Jan. 6 shooting
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Michael Byrd · Tom Manger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | House Democrats Request Suspicious Activity Reports on Trump Crypto Ventures
4 src House Democrats · Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · Campaign Legal Center · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Elizabeth Warren reads 100 acts of Trump corruption into Congressional Record on 100th day
3 src Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate · Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Federal Watchdog Reveals Dozens of Inquiries Into Trump's Withholding of Funds
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Russ Vought · U.S. Government Accountability Office · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | It was supposed to be a tax and border bill. It could also hand Trump vast new executive powers
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · House Judiciary Committee | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Tether Gains Political Influence Amid Trump Administration's Crypto Expansion
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Bo Hines · Howard Lutnick · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-28 | Tesla May Dodge Over $1 Billion in Regulatory Fines Due to Trump Administration Influence
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Richard Blumenthal · Edward Markey | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-24 | Trump Administration Initiates DOJ Probe into Democratic Fundraising Platform ActBlue
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Attorney General Pam Bondi · ActBlue | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-19 | Amazon and Meta are among the corporate sponsors of the White House Easter Egg Roll
4 src Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Amazon · Meta · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump megadonor drags of easy access to White House
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Trump White House Brokers Pro Bono Deals with Elite Law Firms
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Latham & Watkins · Simpson Thacher · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-07 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Pressured into $100M Pro Bono Deal by Trump White House
4 src Donald Trump · Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft · Senator Sheldon Whitehouse · Todd Blanche | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Law firm Kirkland & Ellis in talks with White House to avoid executive order
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | DOT announces enforcement grace period for new emissions standards
4 src Department of Transportation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's Mansion Set on Fire, Family Forced to Flee
3 src Josh Shapiro (Governor, victim) · Unknown arsonist | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Trump announces deal with law firm that employs Doug Emhoff
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Musk's Super PAC Jumps into Florida's Special Elections
4 src Elon Musk · Jimmy Patronis · Randy Fine · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-23 | Trump White House Sells Corporate Sponsorships for Easter Egg Roll, Marking New Level of Institutional Capture
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Meta · YouTube · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-22 | First Major Court Battle Over National Guard Deployment Authority
6 src Federal District Court · U.S. Department of Defense · State Governors · Donald Trump · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | Musk Calls for Judicial Impeachment Wave, Supports GOP Lawmakers
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Republican Congressional Caucus | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | SEC Drops Landmark Lawsuit Against Ripple Labs After Political Shifts
3 src Brad Garlinghouse · Donald Trump · Mark Uyeda · SEC Chair · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | White House Forces Out Amtrak CEO Amid Privatization Threats
3 src Donald Trump · Stephen Gardner · Elon Musk · Sean Duffy | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | Starlink Installed at White House, Raising Major Security Concerns
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX DOGE Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Trump administration coerces law firms into $940 million of free legal work
5 src Trump Administration · Major law firms · Paul Weiss · Kirkland & Ellis · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | Johnson says Congress will investigate attacks against Tesla owners, vehicles
3 src Mike Johnson · Elon Musk · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | DHS Awards $200 Million Ad Contract to Republican Firms Without Full Competitive Bidding
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kristi Noem · Jay Connaughton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-28 | Multiple international democracy research groups declare U.S. in democratic crisis
4 src Freedom House · V-Dem Institute · International IDEA · Varieties of Democracy Project · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Signs Order to Claim Power Over Independent Agencies
4 src Donald Trump · Federal Trade Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-17 | Trump Leverages Presidential Position in PGA-LIV Golf Merger Negotiations
3 src Donald Trump · Jay Monahan · Yasir al-Rumayyan · PGA Tour · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Strategic Litigation Framework Developed by Legal Resistance Network
3 src Constitutional Litigation Consortium · Electronic Frontier Foundation · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | India's Modi talks space and 'good governance' with Musk in Washington
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Explores Consolidating Banking Regulators
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | White House will not release visitor logs during Trump's second term
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Tom Blanton · National Security Archive | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump pardons multiple financial criminals and white-collar offenders
3 src Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Todd Chrisley · Julie Chrisley · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX
4 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Nominee Kash Patel Discloses Millions in Shares from Chinese Company Accused of Forced Labor
4 src Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Adam Schiff · +1 | 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 | |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization
3 src Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | 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 | |
| 2024-12-21 | Senate Judiciary Democrats release final investigative report on SCOTUS ethics crisis — 20-month probe of Thomas, Alito, Scalia gifts and recusal patterns 5 src | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-01 | Sophisticated Swatting Campaign Targets Over 50 Congress Members in December
3 src Thomasz Szabo · 50+ Congress members (victims) · International swatting network | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-24 | Treasury Reveals $1.1 Billion in Epstein Wire Transfers to Russian Banks
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Russian banks | 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 | |
| 2024-07-15 | Judge Cannon dismisses Trump classified documents case, rules Jack Smith appointment unconstitutional
3 src Aileen Cannon · Jack Smith · Donald Trump · Clarence Thomas · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy
4 src Paul Pelosi · Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Visa Inc. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | House Oversight Launches Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI's Safety and Government Deployment
4 src Robert Garcia · Stephen Lynch · Elon Musk · xAI · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | Regulatory Bodies Begin Investigating Grok AI Safety Practices
10 src Elon Musk · xAI · Senator Elizabeth Warren · Rep. Don Bacon · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-03 | Noem caught lying about meeting Kim Jong Un in memoir
3 src Kristi Noem · Kim Jong Un | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Trump Pressures Georgia Lawmakers to Capture State Election Board
4 src Donald Trump · Ed Lindsey · Janelle King · Georgia Republican Lawmakers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-15 | Systematic Supreme Court Ethics Violations Exposed: Thomas-Crow Revelations Reveal Institutional Corruption
3 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Senate Judiciary Committee · ProPublica | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-14 | Vance Introduces College Endowment Accountability Act: 35% Excise Tax on Large University Endowments
4 src JD Vance · Ron Wyden · U.S. Senate | confirmed |