Regulatory Capture
The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1551 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1819–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-20 | Trump Purchases Over $100 Million in Bonds from Companies He Regulates
3 src Donald Trump · Wells Fargo · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Fired DOJ Antitrust Official Accuses Bondi Leadership of Corruption in $14B Merger
3 src Roger Alford · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · Hewlett Packard Enterprise · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-18 | DOJ Escalates Investigation of Senator Adam Schiff: Ed Martin Appointed Special Attorney, Investigation Stalls, Then Grand Jury Probes the Investigators
8 src Adam Schiff · Pam Bondi · Ed Martin · Bill Pulte · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-18 | GSA Seeks to Outsource $110 Billion Federal Procurement to AI Systems
3 src General Services Administration · Tech companies · Defense contractors | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-15 | FHFA Director Pulte Uses Mortgage Data to Target Fed Governor Lisa Cook
3 src William Pulte · Lisa Cook · Federal Reserve · fhfa · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-14 | Trump Eliminates SpaceX Environmental Safeguards via Executive Order
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Department of Transportation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-13 | Trump Revokes Executive Order on Competition
5 src Donald Trump · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | 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 | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Opens $12.5 Trillion in Retirement Savings to Cryptocurrency and Private Equity Risk
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Labor · Cryptocurrency industry · Private Equity Industry | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-10 | About 120 FBI agents assigned to patrol Washington, D.C. streets
4 src Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · DC Metropolitan Police | 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 | |
| 2025-08-07 | EPA Cancels Solar for All Grants Program
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | 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 | |
| 2025-08-06 | Trump announces federal takeover of DC police citing Coristine attack
3 src Donald Trump · DC Police Department · National Guard · Edward Coristine | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-06 | Trump Imposes 50% Tariff on Brazil to Punish Prosecution of Bolsonaro
3 src Donald Trump · jair-bolsonaro · brazil-government · world-trade-organization | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Launches Mortgage Fraud Investigation Targeting Senator Adam Schiff
3 src Department of Justice · Adam Schiff · U.S. Attorney's Office (Maryland) · Federal Housing Finance Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | Federal Judge Strikes Down Key Parts of California's Deepfake Laws
4 src Federal Judge · X · Twitter · California | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | ICE detention deaths reach 14 in FY2025 amid reports of medical neglect and overcrowding
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · CoreCivic · GEO Group · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | California Judicial Council Establishes First Comprehensive AI Transparency Regulations
3 src California Judicial Council · US Federal Judicial Conference · xAI · AI Rights Advocacy Groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | Twelve House Democrats sue Trump administration for blocking detention facility oversight
4 src Rep. Joe Neguse (CO) · Rep. Jason Crow · Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY) · Rep. Dan Goldman (NY) · +10 | 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 | EPA Proposes Rescinding Endangerment Finding at Indiana Truck Dealership: Zeldin Calls It 'Largest Deregulatory Action in History'
6 src Lee Zeldin · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | EPA Delays Methane Pollution Rules for Oil and Gas Industry, Adding Equivalent of 25 Million Cars' Emissions
4 src EPA · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | ICE blocks members of Congress from detention facilities, violating oversight law
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Rep. Jason Crow · Sen. Chris Van Hollen · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | SEC chair attended Don Jr.'s party before SEC granted Don Jr.-backed gun company approval to go public
4 src Donald Trump Jr. · Paul Atkins · Trump Administration · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-26 | DOGE Uses AI to Target Elimination of 50% of Federal Regulations
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-26 | Trump Appoints Nicholas Kent, For-Profit College Insider, as Education Under Secretary
4 src Donald Trump · Nicholas Kent · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Trump Administration Accepts Qatar's Luxury Jet, Uses Missile Program Funds for Retrofit
3 src Donald Trump · Troy Meink · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-24 | DOE selects four federal sites for AI datacenter buildout — Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Reservation, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Savannah River Site — implementing Section 3 of the July 23 EO
5 src Chris Wright · Department of Energy · Idaho National Laboratory · Oak Ridge Reservation · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-24 | UnitedHealth Confirms DOJ Criminal and Civil Investigation for Medicare Advantage Upcoding Fraud
3 src UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Department of Justice · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | Columbia agrees to $200 million fine to settle fight with Trump
6 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | 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 | |
| 2025-07-23 | 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 Media buys $2 billion in bitcoin for crypto Treasury plan
6 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-18 | EPA Announces Largest Workforce Reduction in History — 3,707 Employees Cut, Office of Research and Development Eliminated
6 src Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · DOGE | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Grok AI Suffers Catastrophic Safety Failure, Exposing Critical AI Governance Gaps
3 src Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Vultron AI Raises $22M Series A led by Greycroft with Craft Ventures — Sharpest Post-Appointment Sacks Conflict Point (Sacks AI Czar at Close)
4 src David Sacks · Craft Ventures · Vultron AI · Greycroft · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Defense Department Awards $200M Contract to Elon Musk's xAI for Grok AI
3 src Elon Musk · xAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Pam Bondi ousts DOJ ethics director Joseph Tirrell amid mass prosecutor dismissal
3 src Pam Bondi · Joseph Tirrell · Donald Trump · Jack Smith · +1 | 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 | Senate Appropriators Reject House Proposal to Halve GAO Budget
4 src US Senate · Senate Appropriations Committee · Government Accountability Office (GAO) | 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 | Trump's Inaugural Fund Received $19M from Fossil Fuel Industry
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Chevron · ExxonMobil · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Trump Signs "One Big Beautiful Bill" Slashing $863 Billion from Medicaid, Devastating US Territories
3 src Donald Trump · US Congress · Stacey Plaskett · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | CDC Deactivates H5N1 Emergency Response Despite Ongoing Outbreak
3 src Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | 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 | DOGE Pushes SEC to Loosen Wall Street Regulations on SPACs and Reporting
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Tennessee Enacts Broad Healthcare Refusal Law Allowing Denial of Contraception
3 src Tennessee Legislature · Tennessee Governor | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | USAID Completely Shuttered - Exceeds Project 2025 Timeline
3 src United States Agency for International Development · State Department · Marco Rubio · Project 2025 Implementation Team · +1 | 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 | Kristi Noem Secretly Took $80,000 from Dark Money Group Without Disclosure
4 src Kristi Noem · Trevor Stanley · American Resolve Policy Fund | 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 | |
| 2025-06-26 | Brookings warns on legal limits of putting soldiers on Los Angeles streets
4 src Brookings Institution · Legal scholars · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Emergency contractor donates $10,000 to Florida GOP, receives $6.2 million in contracts hours later
3 src IRG Global Emergency Management · Ron DeSantis · Republican Party of Florida · Access Restoration Services (ARS) · +1 | 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 | |
| 2025-06-23 | 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 | |
| 2025-06-16 | Trump Media seeks SEC approval for bitcoin and ethereum ETF
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Crypto.com · Yorkville America Digital | 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 | Legal Resistance Digital Coordination Platform
5 src Tech for Justice · Legal Resistance Network · Digital Rights Organizations | 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 | Israel Conducts Major Strikes on Iran Nuclear Infrastructure
3 src Israeli Defense Forces · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps · Netanyahu administration · Iranian nuclear scientists · +4 | 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 | |
| 2025-06-10 | CFPB Enforcement Chief Resigns, Condemns Trump Administration's Agency Deconstruction
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Cara Petersen · Russell Vought · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-10 | Justice Dept. Issues Narrow Guidelines for Prosecuting Corporate Bribery Abroad
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Todd Blanche · Matthew R. Galeotti | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-09 | DOJ Issues Transformative FCPA Guidelines Prioritizing U.S. National Interests
4 src Department of Justice · Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-09 | USNI: Marines deploy to downtown Los Angeles
5 src Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth · 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines · U.S. Northern Command · Task Force 51 · +2 | 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 | |
| 2025-06-03 | Some of Trump’s biggest inaugural donors benefit from early government actions
6 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-02 | Trump Organization Launches 21 International Projects During Second Presidential Term
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Eric Trump · Jared Kushner | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | MVM Inc. detains mother and infant at O'Hare Sonesta hotel for five days
4 src MVM Inc. · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Sonesta Hotels · Valentina Galvis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Palantir builds $30M AI surveillance system linking IRS, Social Security, and immigration data for ICE
3 src Palantir Technologies · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Peter Thiel · Sen. Ron Wyden · +1 | 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 | |
| 2025-05-29 | CMS Rescinds EMTALA Guidance Requiring Emergency Abortion Care
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | SEC dismisses lawsuit against Binance
6 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Trump Pardons Criminals with MAGA Credentials or Big Money
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Ed Martin · Michele Fiore · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Who won a seat at Trump's crypto dinner?
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Foreign Cryptocurrency Investors | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-27 | Donald Trump’s media conglomerate is becoming a bitcoin reserve
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | FTC probes Media Matters over Musk's X boycott claims, document shows
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | 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 Controversial $TRUMP Memecoin Crypto Dinner
4 src Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Rep. Sean Casten · Rep. Adam Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-21 | Trump Administration Officially Accepts $400-500 Million Luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar as Air Force One Gift, Sparking Constitutional Crisis Over Foreign Emoluments and Bribery
5 src Donald Trump · Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Chuck Schumer · +10 | 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 | |
| 2025-05-14 | EPA Rolls Back PFAS Drinking Water Protections, Delays Enforcement, Terminates Research Grants
5 src EPA · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Musk adviser may make as much as $1 million a year while helping to dismantle agency that regulates Tesla and X
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Chris Young · Elon Musk · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Trump Commerce Secretary's Crypto Firm Ties to El Salvador Reveal Complex Business Networks
4 src Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Brandon Lutnick · Bo Hines | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sells Over $1 Million in Trump Media Shares Amid Tariff Announcement
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-13 | GD Culture Group Announces $300M Cryptocurrency Investment in Bitcoin and Trump Coin
3 src Donald Trump · GD Culture Group · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-12 | Elon Musk's Boring Company Enters Negotiations for $8.5B Amtrak Tunnel Project
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Federal Railroad Administration · Amtrak | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-12 | FCC Launches Inquiry into EchoStar's Satellite Spectrum Utilization
3 src Brendan Carr · Charlie Ergen · SpaceX · EchoStar · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-12 | US-China Geneva Deal: Both Sides Slash Tariffs by 115 Percentage Points for 90 Days After Weekend Negotiations
7 src Scott Bessent · Jamieson Greer · He Lifeng · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-11 | Trump Administration Systematically Drops Regulatory Cases Against Elon Musk
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-10 | Legal Scholars Warn of Erosion in Judicial Review Mechanisms
3 src Constitutional Law Scholars · Federal Judiciary · Executive Branch · Amanda Frost · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | SEC Reaches Controversial Settlement with Ripple Labs
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Bradley Garlinghouse · Christian Larsen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | Trump to sign order discouraging criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-07 | Trump Administration Moves to Eliminate Space and Rocket Launch Environmental Research
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX | confirmed |