#Privatization
Events indexed under #Privatization — 36 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-12 | ICE 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 | |
| 2026-01-30 | Trump Orders INDYCAR Race on National Mall via Executive Action
3 src Donald Trump · White House · Department of the Interior · Department of Transportation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Billionaire Timothy Mellon's $130M Military Donation During Shutdown Raises Oligarchy Concerns
3 src Timothy Mellon · Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Pentagon | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Private Prison Company CoreCivic Secures $300 Million in New ICE Contracts
2 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-08-18 | GSA Seeks to Outsource $110 Billion Federal Procurement to AI Systems
3 src General Services Administration · Tech companies · Defense contractors | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Budget 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) · Private prison contractors | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | NASA Proposal Shifts $6 Billion, Prioritizing Mars Missions and Commercial Space Interests
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · NASA Leadership · SpaceX · +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 | |
| 2022-02-18 | Thousands Strike Across Puerto Rico Demanding End to PROMESA, Austerity, and Privatization in National Day of Action
4 src Puerto Rican Workers' Union · Central Workers' Federation · United Auto Workers · Electrical Workers' Union · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-01 | LUMA Energy Assumes Control of Puerto Rico's Grid Amid Massive 'Fuera LUMA' Protests Against McKinsey-Designed Privatization
9 src LUMA Energy · Puerto Rico Labor Unions · Angel Figueroa Jaramillo · Jocelyn Velazquez Rodriguez · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-15 | Puerto Rico Selects LUMA Energy for $1.5 Billion Grid Privatization Following McKinsey's Recommendations, Quanta Services Connection Raises Questions
11 src LUMA Energy · Quanta Services · Canadian Utilities Limited · Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-11 | Erik Prince Establishes Kremlin Backchannel in Seychelles Meeting with Putin Ally
3 src Erik Prince · Kirill Dmitriev · George Nader · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-07-24 | Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms
3 src President Barack Obama · Secretary of Education Arne Duncan · Bill Gates · Gates Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-29 | Hurricane Katrina Enables .4B No-Bid Disaster Capitalism Takeover
3 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Bechtel · Shaw Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-22 | DC Opportunity Scholarship Program - First Federally-Funded School Voucher System
3 src President George W. Bush · Speaker Dennis Hastert · Senator Judd Gregg · DC Public Schools · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Issues CPA Order 39 Imposing Radical Free Market Restructuring on Occupied Iraq
6 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Iyad Allawi | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-06 | Paul 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 | |
| 2002-06-27 | Zelman v. Simmons-Harris - Supreme Court Upholds School Vouchers for Religious Schools
3 src Chief Justice William Rehnquist · Justice Sandra Day O'Connor · Justice Clarence Thomas · Institute for Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-08 | No Child Left Behind Act Creates Testing-Industrial Complex and Punitive Accountability Regime
3 src President George W. Bush · Senator Ted Kennedy · Representative John Boehner · Pearson Education · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-21 | Bolivia's Cochabamba Water War: Indigenous-Led Uprising Forces Reversal of World Bank-Mandated Bechtel Privatization
3 src Bechtel Corporation · Aguas del Tunari · World Bank · Hugo Banzer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | ALEC Promotes Private Correctional Facilities Act Written by CCA Executives on Criminal Justice Task Force
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · Brad Wiggins · John Rees · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-24 | IMF Structural Adjustment Policies Implemented in Asian Economies
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · Goldman Sachs · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1997-09-01 | USAID Cancels Harvard Russia Project After Discovering Shleifer and Hay Used Insider Positions to Profit from Russian Investments
4 src Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Harvard Institute for International Development · United States Agency for International Development · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1995-11-17 | Russia'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 · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1995-11-01 | Russia'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 · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Develops Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act - Model Bill to Restrict State Revenue and Manufacture Fiscal Crisis
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Colorado General Assembly · Corporate funders | confirmed | |
| 1994-01-01 | NAFTA Takes Effect as Zapatista Uprising Protests Privatization of Indigenous Lands
4 src EZLN Zapatista Army · Mexican Government · Indigenous Campesinos · Bill Clinton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1992-10-01 | Russia Begins Mass Voucher Privatization: 148 Million Citizens Given Certificates Worth 'Two Volga Cars' That Become Worthless
7 src Anatoly Chubais · Boris Yeltsin · State Committee for State Property Management · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 1992-01-02 | Russia Launches 'Shock Therapy' Economic Reforms: Price Liberalization Triggers 2,520% Inflation and Economic Collapse
5 src Boris Yeltsin · Yegor Gaidar · Jeffrey Sachs · Harvard University · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1992-01-01 | Harvard Receives $40 Million USAID Contract to Advise Russia's Economic Transition: 'Harvard's Blank Check from Uncle Sam'
10 src Harvard Institute for International Development · Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Lawrence Summers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1991-06-04 | Minnesota Enacts First Charter School Law, Creating Template for Education Privatization
3 src Governor Arne Carlson · Minnesota Legislature · Citizens League · Ted Kolderie · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1990-03-27 | Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Creates First Publicly-Funded Private School Vouchers
3 src Governor Tommy Thompson · Representative Polly Williams · Bradley Foundation · Milwaukee Public Schools | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | Wackenhut Corrections Wins First Federal Immigration Detention Contract in Aurora, Colorado
4 src Wackenhut Corporation · Wackenhut Corrections Corporation · George C. Zoley · George Wackenhut · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1983-04-26 | A Nation at Risk Report Launches Education Reform Industry, Lays Groundwork for Privatization
3 src National Commission on Excellence in Education · Secretary of Education Terrel Bell · Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-06 | Proposition 13 Passes, California Tax Revolt Spreads Nationally
5 src Howard Jarvis · Paul Gann | confirmed | |
| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy · Edgar Kaiser | confirmed |