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#Privatization

Events indexed under #Privatization — 36 entries in the record.

36 events From Dec 29, 1973 To Mar 12, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2026-03-12ICE Reveals $38.3 Billion Detention Expansion Plan for 92,600-Bed Mega-Center Network 5 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-01-30Trump Orders INDYCAR Race on National Mall via Executive Action 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Department of the Interior · Department of Transportation
confirmed
2025-10-23Billionaire Timothy Mellon's $130M Military Donation During Shutdown Raises Oligarchy Concerns 3 src
Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Pentagon
reported
2025-10-05Private Prison Company CoreCivic Secures $300 Million in New ICE Contracts 2 src
CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress
reported
2025-08-18GSA Seeks to Outsource $110 Billion Federal Procurement to AI Systems 3 src
General Services Administration · Tech companies · Defense contractors
confirmed
2025-07-04Budget Bill Allocates $45 Billion for Private Immigration Detention Centers, 308% Increase 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
confirmed
2025-05-02NASA Proposal Shifts $6 Billion, Prioritizing Mars Missions and Commercial Space Interests 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · SpaceX · Elon Musk
confirmed
2025-03-19White House Forces Out Amtrak CEO Amid Privatization Threats 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Sean Duffy
confirmed
2022-02-18Thousands Strike Across Puerto Rico Demanding End to PROMESA, Austerity, and Privatization in National Day of Action 4 src
United Auto Workers · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
confirmed
2021-06-01LUMA Energy Assumes Control of Puerto Rico's Grid Amid Massive 'Fuera LUMA' Protests Against McKinsey-Designed Privatization 9 src
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
confirmed
2020-05-15Puerto Rico Selects LUMA Energy for $1.5 Billion Grid Privatization Following McKinsey's Recommendations, Quanta Services Connection Raises Questions 11 src
McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
confirmed
2017-01-11Erik Prince Establishes Kremlin Backchannel in Seychelles Meeting with Putin Ally 3 src
Erik Prince · George Nader · Steve Bannon · Jared Kushner · +1
confirmed
2009-07-24Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms 3 src
Barack Obama · Bill Gates
confirmed
2005-08-29Hurricane Katrina Enables .4B No-Bid Disaster Capitalism Takeover 3 src
Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Heritage Foundation
confirmed
2004-01-22DC Opportunity Scholarship Program - First Federally-Funded School Voucher System 3 src
George W. Bush · Heritage Foundation · American Federation for Children
confirmed
2003-09-19Paul Bremer Issues CPA Order 39 Imposing Radical Free Market Restructuring on Occupied Iraq 6 src
Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush
confirmed
2003-05-06Paul Bremer Begins Issuing 'CPA 100 Orders' to Restructure Iraq's Economy Under Military Occupation 6 src
Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Donald Rumsfeld · +1
confirmed
2002-06-27Zelman v. Simmons-Harris - Supreme Court Upholds School Vouchers for Religious Schools 3 src
William Rehnquist · Sandra Day O'Connor · Clarence Thomas · Institute for Justice · +1
confirmed
2002-01-08No Child Left Behind Act Creates Testing-Industrial Complex and Punitive Accountability Regime 3 src
George W. Bush · Ted Kennedy
confirmed
2000-01-21Bolivia's Cochabamba Water War: Indigenous-Led Uprising Forces Reversal of World Bank-Mandated Bechtel Privatization 3 src
World Bank
confirmed
2000-01-01ALEC Promotes Private Correctional Facilities Act Written by CCA Executives on Criminal Justice Task Force 4 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators
confirmed
1997-10-24IMF Structural Adjustment Policies Implemented in Asian Economies 3 src
International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · Goldman Sachs · +2
confirmed
1997-09-01USAID Cancels Harvard Russia Project After Discovering Shleifer and Hay Used Insider Positions to Profit from Russian Investments 4 src
United States Agency for International Development · Lawrence Summers
confirmed
1995-11-17Russia's Loans-for-Shares Auctions Transfer Major State Enterprises to Yeltsin-Aligned Bankers at Fraction-of-Value Prices, Creating the Oligarch Class 12 src
Boris Yeltsin · Anatoly Chubais · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · +2
confirmed
1995-11-01Russia's 'Loans-for-Shares' Auctions Transfer $100 Billion in State Assets to Oligarchs for Pennies on the Dollar 4 src
Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Boris Berezovsky · +2
confirmed
1995-01-01ALEC Develops Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act - Model Bill to Restrict State Revenue and Manufacture Fiscal Crisis 4 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Corporate funders
confirmed
1994-01-01NAFTA Takes Effect as Zapatista Uprising Protests Privatization of Indigenous Lands 4 src
Mexican Government · Bill Clinton
confirmed
1992-10-01Russia Begins Mass Voucher Privatization: 148 Million Citizens Given Certificates Worth 'Two Volga Cars' That Become Worthless 7 src
Anatoly Chubais · Boris Yeltsin · Russian Government
confirmed
1992-01-02Russia Launches 'Shock Therapy' Economic Reforms: Price Liberalization Triggers 2,520% Inflation and Economic Collapse 5 src
Boris Yeltsin · Harvard University · International Monetary Fund · Russian Government
confirmed
1992-01-01Harvard Receives $40 Million USAID Contract to Advise Russia's Economic Transition: 'Harvard's Blank Check from Uncle Sam' 10 src
Lawrence Summers · United States Agency for International Development · Anatoly Chubais
confirmed
1991-06-04Minnesota Enacts First Charter School Law, Creating Template for Education Privatization 3 src confirmed
1990-03-27Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Creates First Publicly-Funded Private School Vouchers 3 src
Bradley Foundation
confirmed
1987-01-01Wackenhut Corrections Wins First Federal Immigration Detention Contract in Aurora, Colorado 4 src
Wackenhut Corporation · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Reagan Administration
confirmed
1983-04-26A Nation at Risk Report Launches Education Reform Industry, Lays Groundwork for Privatization 3 src
Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation
confirmed
1978-06-06Proposition 13 Passes, California Tax Revolt Spreads Nationally 5 srcconfirmed
1973-12-29HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion 3 src
Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy
confirmed