Capture lane

Regulatory Capture

The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1573 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

1573 events From Jan 1, 1819 To Jun 10, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1819–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-05-21Target Hospitality Secures Seat on $4 Billion DHS Emergency Detention Strategic Sourcing Vehicle 2 src
DHS · ICE
confirmed
2025-05-21Trump 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 · Chuck Schumer · Pam Bondi · +7
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2025-05-19Sean Duffy Sold Stocks Before Trump's Tariff Announcement, Revealing Potential Insider Trading 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sean Duffy
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2025-05-18Supreme Court Hearing Challenges Presidential National Guard Federalization Powers 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · State Governors · U.S. Department of Defense · New York Attorney General Letitia James · +1
confirmed
2025-05-14EPA Rolls Back PFAS Drinking Water Protections, Delays Enforcement, Terminates Research Grants 5 src
EPA · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump
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2025-05-14Musk 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 · Elon Musk · Russell Vought
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2025-05-14Trump Commerce Secretary's Crypto Firm Ties to El Salvador Reveal Complex Business Networks 4 src
Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Brandon Lutnick
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2025-05-14U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sells Over $1 Million in Trump Media Shares Amid Tariff Announcement 3 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration
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2025-05-13GD Culture Group Announces $300M Cryptocurrency Investment in Bitcoin and Trump Coin 3 src
Donald Trump · GD Culture Group · Trump Administration
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2025-05-12Elon Musk's Boring Company Enters Negotiations for $8.5B Amtrak Tunnel Project 3 src
Elon Musk · Donald Trump
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2025-05-12FCC Launches Inquiry into EchoStar's Satellite Spectrum Utilization 3 src
Brendan Carr · SpaceX · Elon Musk
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2025-05-12US-China Geneva Deal: Both Sides Slash Tariffs by 115 Percentage Points for 90 Days After Weekend Negotiations 7 src
Scott Bessent · Jamieson Greer · Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · +1
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2025-05-11Trump Administration Systematically Drops Regulatory Cases Against Elon Musk 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2025-05-10Legal Scholars Warn of Erosion in Judicial Review Mechanisms 3 src
Federal Judiciary · Executive Branch
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2025-05-09SEC Reaches Controversial Settlement with Ripple Labs 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-09Trump to sign order discouraging criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-07Trump Administration Moves to Eliminate Space and Rocket Launch Environmental Research 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX
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2025-05-07U.S. Pushes Nations Facing Tariffs to Approve Musk's Starlink 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Marco Rubio
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2025-05-06US SEC's new chief says 15% of staff have left, contract cuts to come 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-05-05Congressional Hearing Exposes Systematic Judicial Intimidation Tactics 4 src
Senate Judiciary Committee · John Roberts · U.S. Marshals Service · Supreme Court Justices · +5
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2025-05-02Trump Justice Dept. to settle Babbitt family lawsuit in fatal Jan. 6 shooting 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Jamie Raskin
confirmed
2025-05-01100,000+ emails from Israeli Defense Minister Barak hacked, revealing Epstein partnership and global surveillance technology network 4 src
Ehud Barak · Jeffrey Epstein · Peter Thiel
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2025-05-01Ryan T. Anderson (EPPC) Appointed to Presidential Religious Liberty Commission — Catholic-Integralist Stream Pipeline 3 src
Donald Trump · Dan Patrick · Ben Carson
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2025-04-30FEC Loses Policymaking Quorum After Commissioner Resignation 3 src
Federal Election Commission · Donald Trump
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2025-04-29DOGE Aide Dismantling CFPB Owns Substantial Stock in Regulated Companies During Mass Layoffs 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency
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2025-04-29Elizabeth Warren reads 100 acts of Trump corruption into Congressional Record on 100th day 3 src
Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate · Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-29It 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
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2025-04-29Tether Gains Political Influence Amid Trump Administration's Crypto Expansion 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Howard Lutnick
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2025-04-29Trump Orders DOJ Investigation into ActBlue Fundraising Platform 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pam Bondi
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2025-04-29Trump's World Liberty Financial Reveals Major Foreign Crypto Investments 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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2025-04-28Nexo Capital Announces U.S. Market Re-entry at Conference with Donald Trump Jr. 3 src
Donald Trump Jr.
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2025-04-25Pentagon Prepared and Then Canceled Classified Briefing for Musk on China War Plans 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pete Hegseth
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2025-04-24Indicted 'Bitcoin Jesus' Pays Roger Stone $600,000 to Lobby Against Tax Charges 3 src
Roger Stone · Donald Trump · Department of Justice
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2025-04-22Coordinated Constitutional Challenge Filed 3 src
American Civil Liberties Union · Protect Democracy · League of Women Voters
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2025-04-22Crypto ally Paul Atkins sworn in to replace Gary Gensler atop U.S. SEC 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Atkins · Mark Uyeda
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2025-04-22Legal Resistance Technology Platform Launch 3 src
Lawyers for Good Government
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2025-04-22Politically Connected Firms Exploit Trump Tariff Exemptions Through Opaque Process 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Reyes Holdings · Ballard Partners
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2025-04-22Rapid Response Litigation Protocol Developed 3 src
Constitutional Defense Network · Lawyers for Good Government · Democracy Forward
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2025-04-22Trump-linked Lobbying Firms Dramatically Increase Q1 2025 Revenues 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Brian Ballard · Susie Wiles · +1
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2025-04-17Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Tech Monopoly, Orders Divestiture of Ad Business 3 src
Leonie Brinkema · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai
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2025-04-17Mass Layoffs Hit Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Judicial Intervention Emerges 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Amy Berman Jackson · Gavin Kliger · +1
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2025-04-17Trump Team Targets Politically Connected Startup Ramp for $700B Government Payments Overhaul 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · J.D. Vance
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2025-04-16Trump Fires Democratic Board Members of the NCUA 4 src
Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt
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2025-04-16Under Trump, consumer watchdog to slash industry supervision 5 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Russell Vought · National Treasury Employees Union · +2
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2025-04-14Pulte Appoints 1789 Capital's Omeed Malik to Fannie Mae Board; Nominating/Governance Committee Seat Paired with FHFA Director as Chair 15 src
Bill Pulte · Donald Trump Jr. · 1789 Capital · Fannie Mae · +1
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2025-04-14Wolff Reports Trump Team's Media Leverage Attempt with Warner Bros. Discovery 3 src
Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Michael Wolff
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2025-04-13ICE terminates $73 million no-bid contract after improper influence allegations 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2025-04-11Binance seeks to curb U.S. oversight while in deal talks with Trump’s crypto company 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-11CFPB Dismisses Lawsuit Against Comerica Bank Over Federal Benefits Card Program 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Rohit Chopra
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2025-04-11Meta adds former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick to its board 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Mark Zuckerberg
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2025-04-11The US is turning a blind eye to crypto crimes 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-10Fired US Federal Trade Commissioners Sound Alarm on Potential Data Access Misuse 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Rebecca Slaughter
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2025-04-10Judicial System Struggles with Presidential Accountability Mechanisms 3 src
Department of Justice
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2025-04-10Labor leaders fear Elon Musk and DOGE could gain access to whistleblower files 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · AFL-CIO · +1
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2025-04-10Mass Judicial Removal Attempt Triggers Constitutional Emergency 3 src
Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Department of Justice
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2025-04-10Trump Signs Bill Nullifying Expanded IRS Crypto Broker Rule 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Congress
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2025-04-09Trump Reverses Course with 90-Day Tariff Pause After Bond Market Crisis; China Excluded, Tariffs Escalate to 145% 8 src
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration
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2025-04-09US DOGE Service Agreement with Department of Labor Reveals $1.3 Million Fee 3 src
Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Labor
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2025-04-09US-China Tariff Escalation Reaches 145% as Tit-for-Tat Retaliation Nears Total Decoupling 7 src
Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick
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2025-04-08Justice Department Disbands National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team 3 src
Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration
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2025-04-05Launch of Integrated Legal Technology Platform for Collaborative Resistance 3 src confirmed
2025-04-05Legal Resistance Tech Collaboration Platform Launch 4 src
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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2025-04-04SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Department of Education v. California clears termination of DEI-flagged teacher-training grants 3 src confirmed
2025-04-04World Liberty Financial Sells $25 Million in Tokens Days Before DOJ Crypto Unit Disbanded 5 src
Trump Family · World Liberty Financial · Department of Justice
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2025-04-03FCC Chair Carr Proposes Section 230 Reinterpretation at DOJ "Big-Tech Censorship" Forum 6 src
Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission
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2025-04-03Liberation Day Market Crash: S&P 500 Drops 10.5% in Two Days, $6.6 Trillion Wiped Out in Largest Two-Day Loss in History 7 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Federal Reserve · Wall Street
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2025-04-02DOT announces enforcement grace period for new emissions standards 4 src
Department of Transportation · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-04-02SEC Restructures Enforcement Division Under Trump Administration 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Atkins
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2025-04-02Shares in Trump social media company sink following concerns about insider selloff 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02Top Anti-Corruption Officials Depart SEC Following Enforcement Pause 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02U.S. lifts sanctions on wife of Putin’s childhood friend Boris Rotenberg 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-04-02Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid Meta antitrust trial 5 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1
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2025-04-01EPA reverses bans on TCE, asbestos, and ethylene oxide under industry executives 3 src
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · American Chemistry Council
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2025-04-01HHS Lays Off 10,000 Federal Health Workers at NIH, FDA, and CDC in RFK Jr. Restructuring 5 src
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · Food and Drug Administration · +1
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2025-04-01State Department plans $400 million payment to Tesla after regulatory firings 5 src
State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk · Donald Trump
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2025-03-31Trump Administration Continues Systematic DOJ Prosecutor Purge 3 src
Trump Administration · Department of Justice · James McHenry
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2025-03-31Trump Administration Freezes Title X Funding to Planned Parenthood Affiliates 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Planned Parenthood
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2025-03-28FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · FDIC
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2025-03-28SEC Launches Crypto Task Force with Significant Staffing Changes 3 src
Paul Atkins
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2025-03-28Trump pardons four founders of BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange convicted of money laundering 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-03-28Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case 3 src
Donald Trump · Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation
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2025-03-27Trump EPA Creates Email Portal for Clean Air Act Exemption Requests 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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2025-03-27US Virgin Islands Loses $3.3 Million in Federal Health Funding Amid National Public Health Cuts 2 src
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2025-03-26How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China 3 src
Elon Musk
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2025-03-25DOGE cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink government contracts 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Mikie Sherrill
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2025-03-25Thiel Capital Chief of Staff Michael Kratsios Confirmed as OSTP Director (74-25) 5 src
Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Scale AI · Trump Administration · +1
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2025-03-25Trump SEC pick discloses family fortune of more than $328 million 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-03-24Government contractor who received $179M in federal contracts buys VP Vance's home for $170K over asking 3 src
J.D. Vance · Trump Administration
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2025-03-22First Major Court Battle Over National Guard Deployment Authority 6 src
U.S. Department of Defense · State Governors · Donald Trump · Charles Breyer · +1
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2025-03-22Trump's National Guard Federalization Triggers Constitutional Crisis in California 3 src
Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · Pete Hegseth · Charles Breyer · +3
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2025-03-21FinCEN interim final rule exempts all U.S.-formed entities and U.S. persons from Corporate Transparency Act beneficial-ownership reporting 8 src confirmed
2025-03-20Commerce Secretary Lutnick Urges Public to Buy Tesla Stock, Violating Ethics Rules 3 src
Howard Lutnick · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1
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2025-03-20Trump Invokes Defense Production Act for Critical Mineral Extraction on Federal Lands 3 src
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Scott Bessent · Doug Burgum
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2025-03-19Donald Trump Jr. meets Serbian president to promote Trump hotel amid massive protests 4 src
Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization · Jared Kushner
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2025-03-19SEC Drops Landmark Lawsuit Against Ripple Labs After Political Shifts 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Uyeda
confirmed
2025-03-19White House Forces Out Amtrak CEO Amid Privatization Threats 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Sean Duffy
confirmed
2025-03-18Fired FTC Democrats fear Trump will urge regulator to go easy on his Big Tech donors 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-03-18Starlink Installed at White House, Raising Major Security Concerns 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Gerry Connolly
confirmed
2025-03-18VP Vance at Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit — AI Deregulation 'Tech-Populist Synthesis'; 'We Shouldn't Be Afraid of AI, We Should Seek to Dominate It' 4 src
J.D. Vance · Andreessen Horowitz
confirmed
2025-03-17Pulte Purges 14 Directors from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Boards, Installs Himself as Chairman of Both GSEs 8 src
Bill Pulte · FHFA · Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac
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