#Regulatory-Capture
Events indexed under #Regulatory-Capture — 602 entries in the record.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | OCC final rule amending 12 CFR 5.20 takes effect, replacing 'fiduciary activities' with 'operations of a trust company and activities related thereto' for national trust bank charters Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · U.S. Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | AI Industry Super PACs Pour $125 Million Into 2026 Midterms to Block Regulation, Targeting Candidates With Hidden Influence Campaign OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | DOGE Cuts 1,029 More NOAA Employees, Threatening Weather Forecasting and Disaster Response Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · U.S. National Weather Service · Elon Musk · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Launches Section 301 Trade Probes to Rebuild Tariff Regime After Supreme Court Defeat Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · U.S. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Colorado Attorney General and Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Illegal Rejection of State Clean Air Plan Protecting Coal Phil Weiser · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Earthjustice · Sierra Club · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Legal Challenges Mount Against EPA Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Environmental Defense Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Environmental Groups Press Legal Challenge Against EPA's Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding Earthjustice · Clean Air Task Force · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-24 | Full DC Circuit Hears Three-Hour Arguments on CFPB Mass Layoffs; Court Grills Administration on Separation of Powers Russell Vought · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · National Treasury Employees Union · U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-23 | Legal Scholars Assess State Climate Authority After Endangerment Repeal; California Formally Sues EPA California Attorney General Rob Bonta · Massachusetts Attorney General · Connecticut Attorney General · Legal Planet · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-21 | Independent Analysis Projects 58,000 Additional Deaths and $4.7 Trillion in Costs from EPA Endangerment Repeal U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Inside Climate News · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | Trump Issues DOGE Deregulatory Executive Order Requiring 60-Day Regulatory Review at All Agencies Including Independent Bodies Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-18 | EPA Endangerment Finding Repeal Published in Federal Register; Coalition Lawsuits Filed Same Day U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Earthjustice · Natural Resources Defense Council · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-18 | Trump Invokes Defense Production Act for Bayer/Monsanto Glyphosate, Potentially Shielding Corporation from 100,000+ Cancer Lawsuits Donald Trump · Bayer AG · Brooke Rollins · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-13 | Jim O'Neill and Mike Stuart Depart HHS in Leadership Shakeup Ahead of Midterms Jim O'Neill · Mike Stuart · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-12 | EPA Repeals 2009 Endangerment Finding on Greenhouse Gases U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-12 | Trust in Federal Health Agencies Plummets Under RFK Jr. Despite Restoration Promises Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-11 | SEC Chair Atkins Grilled by Congress Over 60% Crypto Enforcement Decline Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · Maxine Waters · House Financial Services Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-11 | Trump Orders Pentagon to Purchase Coal-Fired Electricity Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Department of Energy · Peabody Energy | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-08 | EPA Advances Rollback of Four PFAS Drinking Water Standards U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-07 | SEC Denies All Whistleblower Award Claims in First Quarter of FY2026 Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-03 | Congress Passes Bipartisan HHS Funding Bill Blocking RFK Jr.'s Proposed 25% Budget Cuts U.S. Congress · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-02 | GAO Report Reveals Education Department Paid $38M to Idled Civil Rights Staff U.S. Government Accountability Office · U.S. Department of Education · Linda McMahon · Bernie Sanders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-01 | SEC Cuts PCAOB Budget 9.4%, Slashes Board Compensation by Half Securities and Exchange Commission · Public Company Accounting Oversight Board · Paul Atkins | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-31 | SEC Chair Atkins Appoints Trump Loyalists to PCAOB Accounting Oversight Board Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · Public Company Accounting Oversight Board · Demetrios Logothetis · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Ten Tech Vendors Offer $600 Million in Discounts to Implement Medicaid Work Requirements U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Donald Trump · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-27 | Trump Executive Order Authorizes Federal Preemption of California Rebuilding Regulations Donald Trump · White House · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Small Business Administration | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-23 | OCC Comptroller Gould Refuses Warren Demand to Pause WLFI Charter Review Jonathan Gould · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Elizabeth Warren · World Liberty Financial · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-18 | EPA WOTUS Rollback Moves Forward After Public Comment Period U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-17 | DOGE Claims $881M in Education Research Contract Cancellations Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. Department of Education · Institute of Education Sciences · Linda McMahon | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Public Citizen Report Documents 159 Cancelled Corporate Enforcement Actions Worth $3.1 Billion Public Citizen · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | World Liberty Financial Applies for OCC Bank Charter World Liberty Financial · Trump Organization · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | CDC Slashes Childhood Vaccine Schedule from 17 to 11 Diseases, Bypassing Advisory Committee Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Jim O'Neill · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Expire, Premiums Double for 22 Million Americans Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-16 | House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Exposes How Trump Administration Corrupted DOJ Antitrust Enforcement Through Pay-to-Play Schemes and Political Interference Jamie Raskin · Roger P. Alford · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · +15 | reported | |
| 2025-12-09 | FBI Director Kash Patel Signs Qatar Security Agreements Despite Recent Lobbying History and Ethics Waiver Controversy Kash Patel · Qatar government · Craig Holman · Public Citizen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-08 | Alina Habba Resigns as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Following Appeals Court Ruling Alina Habba · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Desiree Grace · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-08 | Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +12 | reported | |
| 2025-12-06 | Trump DOT waives $11 million Southwest Airlines fine, dismantling corporate accountability Trump Administration · Sean Duffy · Department of Transportation · Southwest Airlines · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | RFK Jr.'s Reconstituted CDC Panel Votes to Roll Back Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | FDA Vaccine Chief Vinay Prasad Circulates Unsubstantiated Memo Claiming COVID Vaccines Killed At Least Ten Children Dr. Vinay Prasad · FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · FDA Commissioner Martin Makary · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | GAO Opens Investigation Into FHFA Director Bill Pulte for Weaponized Criminal Referrals Targeting Trump Critics Government Accountability Office (GAO) · Bill Pulte · Federal Housing Finance Agency · Letitia James · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-02 | FDA Cancer Drug Chief Dr. Richard Pazdur Resigns After Three Weeks Under Political Pressure Dr. Richard Pazdur · Marty Makary · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Food and Drug Administration · +8 | reported | |
| 2025-12-01 | Trump Administration Drops 100+ Corporate Enforcement Actions, Penalties Fall 97 Percent Trump Administration · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-11-19 | Interior Department Proposes Opening 1.27 Billion Acres to Offshore Drilling, Largest OCS Program in History Doug Burgum · Bureau of Ocean Energy Management · Department of the Interior | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-18 | Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Case as Judge Rules No Monopoly Despite Instagram/WhatsApp Acquisitions Judge James Boasberg · Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-14 | ProPublica Investigation Exposes Hidden Corruption in Noem's $220M DHS Ad Campaign Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · The Strategy Group · Ben Yoho · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-29 | Binance.US Lists Trump's USD1 Stablecoin Days After Presidential Pardon of Binance Founder Binance · Binance.US · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder After $2 Billion Deal With Trump Family Crypto Venture and $450,000 Lobbying Campaign Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · World Liberty Financial · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | White House Releases List of 37 Corporate Donors for Trump's $300M Ballroom Project Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-10-20 | FTC Deletes Consumer Protection Guidance on AI Fraud and Surveillance Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Trump Appointees · Tech companies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | Senate Confirms Industry Lobbyist to Lead EPA Chemical Safety Division Douglas Troutman · American Cleaning Institute · United States Senate · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | OCC Conditionally Approves Erebor Bank Charter in Record Four Months Palmer Luckey · Joe Lonsdale · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-11 | Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Amasses $141M War Chest to Shape 2026 Elections After Defeating Sherrod Brown Fairshake · Coinbase · Sherrod Brown · Crypto industry | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Analysis Finds 40+ Trump Administration Appointees With Fossil Fuel Industry Ties Chris Wright · Doug Burgum · Trump Administration · Public Citizen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Musk's Boring Company Accused of 800 Environmental Violations in Las Vegas Elon Musk · Boring Company · Nevada Regulators | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Provides 'Concierge Service' to Fossil Fuel Industry Brittany Kelm · National Energy Dominance Council · Fossil Fuel Industry · White House | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Withdraws CFTC Nominee Brian Quintenz After Winklevoss Conflict Brian Quintenz · Tyler Winklevoss · Cameron Winklevoss · White House · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | RFK Jr.'s Legal Associate Aaron Siri Advances Anti-Vaccine Lawsuits While Influencing HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Aaron Siri · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Grover Norquist and 35 Conservative Groups Urge Trump to Let ACA Tax Credits Expire While Opposing Corporate Tax Credit Expirations Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform · Club for Growth · Americans for Prosperity · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-26 | White House Solicits Input on Dismantling AI Regulations to Boost Industry White House · Office of Science and Technology Policy | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Meta Launches Super PAC to Fight AI Regulation at State Level Meta · Mark Zuckerberg | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Senator Markey Alleges Energy Secretary Wright Using Position to Benefit Former Nuclear Firm Oklo Chris Wright · Oklo Inc. · Ed Markey · Department of Energy | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Eliminates Consumer Protection Branch, Guts Civil Rights Division Enforcement Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · DOJ Civil Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Humphrey's Executor, Review Trump's Power to Fire Agency Heads U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Commissioner Slaughter, Threatens Independent Agencies U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Alvaro Bedoya · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | SEC Drops Fraud Cases Against Trump Clemency Recipients, Abandoning Victims Paul Atkins · Devon Archer · Trevor Milton · Carlos Watson · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-17 | DOJ and FTC Identify 125+ Federal Regulations for Elimination as "Anticompetitive" Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-17 | FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens ABC License Revocation, Disney Suspends Kimmel 'Indefinitely' Brendan Carr · Jimmy Kimmel · ABC · Disney · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | Trump Installs Economic Adviser on Federal Reserve Board in Unprecedented Dual Role Stephen Miran · Donald Trump · Federal Reserve · Council of Economic Advisers | reported | |
| 2025-09-12 | SEC Drops Fraud Case Against Pardoned Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Trevor Milton · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-10 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Eliminates Climate Risk Assessment Panels Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Financial Stability Oversight Council | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Warns of Job Cuts After Congress Halves Funding Cap Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Trump Signs Anti-Debanking Order While Gutting Agency That Could Investigate It Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · JPMorgan · Citibank | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Trump Spending Legislation Creates $40 Billion in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Donald Trump · Harold Hamm · Kelcy Warren · Fossil Fuel Industry | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-08 | FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Threatens to Revoke Broadcast Licenses Over News Coverage Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Donald Trump · Comcast · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-05 | FTC Reverses Nationwide Noncompete Ban, Leaving 30 Million Workers Bound by Restrictive Contracts Andrew Ferguson · Federal Trade Commission · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-05 | Transportation Department Drops Rule Requiring Airlines to Compensate Passengers for Delays Sean Duffy · Department of Transportation · Airlines · Donald Trump | reported | |
| 2025-09-04 | Federal Reserve Nominee Plans Unprecedented Dual Role With White House Stephen Miran · Donald Trump · Federal Reserve Board · White House | reported | |
| 2025-09-02 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove FTC Commissioner, Gutting Agency Independence Chief Justice John Roberts · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-28 | White House Fires Surface Transportation Board Member Via Email Without Cause Trump · White House · Surface Transportation Board · Robert E. Primus | reported | |
| 2025-08-27 | Silicon Valley Launches $200 Million Super PAC to Block AI Regulations Ahead of Midterms Meta · Andreessen Horowitz · Greg Brockman · OpenAI | reported | |
| 2025-08-18 | GSA Seeks to Outsource $110 Billion Federal Procurement to AI Systems General Services Administration · Tech companies · Defense contractors | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-15 | FHFA Director Pulte Uses Mortgage Data to Target Fed Governor Lisa Cook William Pulte · Lisa Cook · Federal Reserve · fhfa · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-14 | Trump Eliminates SpaceX Environmental Safeguards via Executive Order Donald Trump · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Department of Transportation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-13 | Trump Revokes Executive Order on Competition Donald Trump · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Opens $12.5 Trillion in Retirement Savings to Cryptocurrency and Private Equity Risk Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Labor · Cryptocurrency industry · Private Equity Industry | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Skydance-Paramount deal closes with contentious FCC regulatory conditions Skydance · Paramount Global · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | White House Releases Comprehensive Crypto Policy Roadmap 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' Lee Zeldin · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | SEC chair attended Don Jr.'s party before SEC granted Don Jr.-backed gun company approval to go public Donald Trump Jr. · Paul Atkins · Trump Administration · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-26 | Trump Appoints Nicholas Kent, For-Profit College Insider, as Education Under Secretary Donald Trump · Nicholas Kent · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-24 | UnitedHealth Confirms DOJ Criminal and Civil Investigation for Medicare Advantage Upcoding Fraud 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 Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-21 | Trump Media buys $2 billion in bitcoin for crypto Treasury plan Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Defense Department Awards $200M Contract to Elon Musk's xAI for Grok AI 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 Pam Bondi · Joseph Tirrell · Donald Trump · Jack Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | Trump Foreign Aid Policy Sparks Global Lobbying Surge Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marco Rubio · US Lobbying Firms | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | Trump's Inaugural Fund Received $19M from Fossil Fuel Industry Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Chevron · ExxonMobil · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | DOGE Pushes SEC to Loosen Wall Street Regulations on SPACs and Reporting Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed |