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Public power sold to top donors.
A Times analysis finds hundreds of big post-election donors have since gotten something of value from the administration.
A bridge owner gave $1 million to a pro-Trump group, then Trump publicly attacked the competing crossing.
Days after a $5 million donation, the administration sided with Crypto.com in a lawsuit.
ProPublica uses disclosure records to show a senior Justice Department official halted crypto enforcement while personally holding crypto.
ProPublica reports a Russian oligarch close to Putin secretly paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding.
Reuters traces how the Trump family’s crypto ventures are collecting money from around the world while he is president.
The administration withdrew federal minimum staffing requirements after nursing-home executives donated millions and met with Trump. The reporting documents the sequence, not a proven quid pro quo.
ProPublica found White House adviser Peter Navarro initiated a fast-tracked Pentagon loan to Vulcan Elements, linked to Donald Trump Jr.’s investment firm. Those involved denied favoritism.
The firm that planned the Jan. 6 rally has since received no-bid government contracts.
The president’s son-in-law sought foreign investment for Affinity Partners while serving as a Middle East envoy, raising questions about the separation of diplomacy and private business.
Replacing competence with loyalty.
The federal government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.
ProPublica reports on the administration’s moves against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s safety role.
Mental health therapists are leaving the Veterans Affairs system, according to ProPublica.
Disease researchers blame DOGE cuts for a spreading Cyclospora outbreak.
ProPublica documented a sharp decline in FDA inspections of foreign food facilities, amid federal personnel disruptions and concerns about imported-food oversight.
Federal staffing reductions affected offices responsible for students with disabilities and enforcement of education civil-rights protections.
Tally of research grants the National Cancer Institute cancelled in 2025.
Deep cuts to public health leave the system reeling.
A Times analysis of how the EPA’s mission and language changed under Zeldin.
The CDC counts 4,080 confirmed U.S. measles cases as of Oct. 8, 78% more than all of 2025, putting the country on track for its worst year since 1991. About 10% of patients have been hospitalized.
Law repurposed as a political weapon.
Prosecutors had a drugs-for-votes case built, then were told under Trump not to pursue charges.
Trump freed a convicted fraudster days into a seven-year prison sentence.
Trump pardoned major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric.
Records show Trump’s own mortgages match his description of mortgage fraud, which his allies used against opponents.
The FBI informant who lied about the Bidens was quietly released from jail.
Commentary argues Trump is using pardons to legalize corruption.
The Justice Department dropped 23,000 criminal investigations as it shifted resources to immigration.
The administration says it is cracking down on fraud but gave a red state a pass.
The administration targeted firms associated with Trump’s adversaries through executive orders affecting contracts, access and security clearances; the orders drew successful constitutional challenges.
A judge delayed a ruling on a placeholder case against James Comey while prosecutors ask a grand jury for a new indictment. An earlier case was dismissed because the prosecutor was illegally appointed, and a separate case over an Instagram post is pending. Comey says he is innocent; the Justice Department says the filing preserves the statute of limitations.
Facts erased and accountability chilled.
Federal protections for whistleblowers have been gutted.
Trump wants to jail reporters over leaks from his own administration.
The administration is trying to unmask a Redditor who criticized ICE by taking the company to a secret grand jury.
A group that built privacy tools was labeled terrorists by Trump.
The FCC chair’s ‘easy way’ to crush the mainstream media.
HRW says the administration’s anti-censorship push is selective while it funds less monitoring of real censorship.
KFF and archival investigators documented government datasets and webpages removed or changed, complicating public access to information about health disparities and climate.
Federal agents are deploying high-tech surveillance tools to track protesters.
A Republican plan to overhaul the census could put everyone’s privacy at risk.
Reuters reviewed evidence that conflicted with officials’ early descriptions of several confrontations, including the fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.
Survival systems sold as ‘reform’.
More than 1 million children lost access to food benefits after Trump’s bill passed.
2.5 million Americans have lost food aid since the GOP megabill became law.
A new SSI rule targets disabled adults who live with their families.
Officials cut 760,000 ACA enrollees, claiming fraud.
The VA killed a home loan program; veterans are now losing their homes.
Ohio nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters.
Millions more Americans are uninsured after premium subsidies lapsed.
Federal support ended for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, interrupting clinical-trial enrollment and leaving families seeking experimental care facing uncertainty.
While spending billions on the Iran war, Trump quietly moved to boot millions more off food aid.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Medicaid changes in the 2025 reconciliation law will increase the number of uninsured Americans by millions in the next decade. This is a projection, not a count of people already removed.
Surveillance and coercion normalized.
Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers.
Deaths in ICE custody reached 17 in 2026, about one a week.
Social Security data is openly being shared with DHS to target immigrants.
Hacked data shines light on Homeland Security’s AI surveillance ambitions.
An exclusive look at secret ICE programs.
The corporations enabling the ICE crackdown.
Renée Good and Alex Pretti were killed in separate Minneapolis encounters with federal immigration officers in January 2026. Their deaths prompted investigations and disputes over official accounts.
ICE is planning a facility for children and families on a PFAS-contaminated site.
ProPublica documented accounts of children exposed to chemical irritants during immigration operations, including in neighborhoods near homes and schools.
Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights identified 52 deaths from January 20, 2025 through June 4, 2026, and found a sharply increased detention mortality rate.
The high cost of unprovoked escalation.
Traders placed more than $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
Trump’s Iran war has cost taxpayers over $10 billion in just 10 days.
Army survivors of a deadly attack in Kuwait dispute the Pentagon’s account and say their unit was unprepared.
The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a slush fund for Trump’s political allies.
The Pentagon set a record spending binge in the final days of the fiscal year.
Families of USS Abraham Lincoln sailors described shortages, broken facilities and morale concerns during an exceptionally long deployment. The Navy disputed some accounts.
A $1.5 trillion military budget would add $7 trillion to the debt.
A top UN official warns of a severe food crisis if the Strait of Hormuz remains shut.
Amnesty International reported evidence implicating a U.S. strike in the deaths of more than 100 children at an Iranian school and called for a full, transparent investigation.
The Pentagon told Congress the Iran war has cost $47.1 billion through Oct. 16, and the administration is seeking up to $70 billion more in emergency funding. Congressional officials said the figure is almost certainly on the low side.
Democracy rewritten in the fine print.
Trump publicly floated a plan to ‘take over’ elections, starting with Fulton County, Georgia.
The White House is circulating a draft emergency order to take control of elections.
DOJ offered states a confidential deal to remove voters flagged by the feds as ineligible.
A leak reveals a covert USPS system that could get millions of ballots tossed.
A White House proposal threatens funding that helps disabled Americans vote.
The Brennan Center analysis of the SAVE Act as an election power grab.
State officials from both parties resisted demands for voter records amid disputes about federal authority, privacy and election administration.
Trump and MAGA are using FBI voting probes to push the SAVE America Act.
Democratic states sued over Trump’s mail-in ballot order.
A March 2026 executive order sought changes to federal election procedures and prompted court challenges over presidential authority to regulate voting.
The slow grind of economic instability.
Trump dismissed pump pain to boast about oil and gas profits.
America’s farmers are going bankrupt and blaming Trump.
The Agriculture Secretary says a ‘golden age’ is coming while farmers say they’re barely getting by.
The top 15 US billionaires gained nearly $1 trillion in Trump’s first year.
Consumer prices rose in January, before the Iran war added pressure.
Long-term Treasury yields and mortgage rates climbed after the Iran war began, as deficits, tariffs and the 2025 tax law push borrowing costs up. Budget experts quoted say that tax law adds roughly $5 trillion to 10-year deficits.
The Commerce Secretary’s former investment bank is taking bets on tariff refunds.
CBO projects that the 2025 reconciliation law increases federal deficits over the coming decade, including higher interest costs, even as it reduces spending on health and food assistance.
The administration readies a gift for Wall Street while waging war and gutting aid programs.
Voters and lawmakers in both parties are pushing back on AI data centers over fears of higher power bills. Electricity prices rose 6.7% in 2025, and polling shows support drops once the projected increase reaches about $25 a month.
Citizenship weaponized for exclusion.
Trump has detained the parents of more than 11,000 US citizen kids.
Reporting on people disappeared to a foreign prison.
ICE hired a firm accused of torture to track down undocumented children.
ICE raided a military base and detained the wife of a newlywed soldier preparing to deploy.
DOJ has escalated its attack on trans care for minors.
A Georgia hospital turned her in; now she is charged with murder.
Hegseth struck two Black and two female officers from a promotion list.
An investigation documented citizens detained by immigration authorities during 2025, including people held for extended periods without timely access to family or counsel.
Human Rights Watch documented U.S. transfers to third countries, frequently with no personal ties to the receiving nation, and raised serious concerns about detention and due process.
The SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens.
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