Do Cabinet members have to disclose their finances?

Yes. Under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, every Senate-confirmed appointee must file OGE Form 278e (annual financial disclosure) and Form 278-T (periodic transaction reports within 30 days of any trade over $1,000). These are public records published by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

Has any Cabinet member been prosecuted for ethics violations?

Criminal prosecution is rare. Enforcement is primarily civil — OGE can refer cases to the Department of Justice but only does so for the most egregious violations. The Hegseth/BlackRock matter (March 2026) is the most recent public conflict-of-interest inquiry; Senator Warren's letter to the SEC is on file.

Executive Branch · Public Records · Live

The Trump Administration's Holdings, Conflicts, and Federal Deals — in one place.

Q: What is the U.S. executive branch?

The executive branch is one of the three branches of the U.S. federal government, responsible for enforcing federal law. It is headed by the President and includes the Vice President, 15 Cabinet departments, the Executive Office of the President, the Federal Reserve System, and over 100 independent agencies.

Q: How many officials does GovGreed track?

39 senior executive-branch officials: the President, Vice President, all 15 Cabinet secretaries, intelligence community leadership, senior White House staff, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and select agency heads. Each has a forensic-grade profile linked to their primary OGE disclosure.

Q: What are federal equity stakes?

Direct U.S. government ownership stakes, loans, or grants given to publicly-traded companies. Recent examples include Intel's CHIPS Act equity, MP Materials' Department of Defense critical-minerals deal, and USA Rare Earth's $1.6B Commerce Department partnership. We track each by ticker, agency, dollar size, and 30-day stock-price reaction.

We aggregate every U.S. Office of Government Ethics disclosure from the 39-person executive-branch leadership: cabinet secretaries, agency heads, senior White House staff. Every figure on this site traces to a primary federal record — OGE Form 278/278-T filings, SEC 8-K filings, and agency press releases. We aggregate; we don't editorialize.

Officials tracked

32 OGE-linked

OGE Filings

369

All parsed into structured rows

Line items extracted

29,136

Assets · transactions · liabilities · positions

Federal deals tracked

$25.5B

7 CHIPS / DoD / Commerce stakes

Featured profiles

Where the data is densest

These officials have the most-extensive structured disclosures. Each profile shows holdings, transactions, outside positions, and government-action conflicts with primary-source citations.

Donald J. Trump

President · White House

→ View full disclosure profile

Linda McMahon

Secretary of Education · Department of Education

→ View full disclosure profile

Doug Burgum

Secretary of the Interior · Department of the Interior

→ View full disclosure profile

Sean Duffy

Secretary of Transportation · Department of Transportation

→ View full disclosure profile

Kelly Loeffler

SBA Administrator · Small Business Administration

→ View full disclosure profile

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Secretary of Health and Human Services · Department of Health and Human Services

→ View full disclosure profile

Government as VC · the new pattern

Federal Equity Stakes in Public Companies

The Trump-era trend of federal agencies taking direct equity, loans, or grants in publicly-traded companies — Intel CHIPS, MP Materials' DoD partnership, USA Rare Earth's $1.6B Commerce deal. We track each by ticker, agency, deal type, dollar size, and 30-day price reaction. 7 deals confirmed; more being added.

USAR

USA Rare Earth Inc

MIXED · Commerce · 2026-01-26

$1.6B

MP Materials Corp.

EQUITY · DoD · 2025-07-10

$400.0M

UCORE

Ucore Rare Metals

GRANT · DoD · 2024-09-30

$18.4M

Micron Technology

GRANT · Commerce · 2024-04-25

$6.1B

+17.0% / 30d

TSM

TSMC ADR (US)

GRANT · Commerce · 2024-04-08

$6.6B

+8.5% / 30d

INTC

Intel Corporation

GRANT · Commerce · 2024-03-20

$8.5B

-29.4% / 30d

LAC

Lithium Americas Corp.

LOAN · DOE · 2024-03-14

$2.3B

Sources: agency press releases, SEC 8-K filings, Federal Register notices. Price returns from our daily-prices pipeline.

Methodology

How we built this

Source 1 — OGE Form 278 / 278-T. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics publishes financial disclosures for every appointee under the Ethics in Government Act (1978). We mirror these PDFs locally and parse them into structured rows: assets (with value brackets), transactions, liabilities, outside positions, income, and gifts.

Source 2 — Government equity stakes. Tracked from agency press releases and SEC 8-K filings, with daily-price overlays for 30-day return reaction.

Source 3 — Sector flags. We auto-flag holdings as defense, pharma, crypto, or critical-mineral exposure using ticker maps + asset-name keyword matching. Currently flagged: 28 defense, 39 pharma, 10 crypto, 3 critical mineral.

Editorial discipline. Every figure cites a primary federal record (filing #, URL, or docket). We aggregate; we don't editorialize. Cases pending; convictions noted as such. Trump's lawsuit against the NYT for republishing his tax returns was dismissed in 2023 — the precedent for aggregating public records is settled.

Browse all 39 officials

Click into any cabinet secretary, agency head, or senior White House staffer.

View Cabinet Directory →

Cross-reference

Connect the dots across branches

Congress · 538 members

Stock trades, donor money, voting alignment, bill sponsorship — same 4-vector framing applied to the legislative branch.

→ All 538 politicians

Bills · 60K+

Every congressional bill with plain-English summary, full text, sector impact map, hedge-fund 13F overlap, and pass-likelihood score.

→ Search bills database

Conflict Check

Cross-reference any politician against their committee jurisdiction, donor industry alignment, and trading history.

→ Run a conflict check

FAQ

About the U.S. executive branch

Answers to the questions search engines and AI assistants ask most about Cabinet conflicts, OGE disclosures, and federal equity deals.

What is the U.S. executive branch?
One of three branches of federal government, headed by the President. Includes the Vice President, 15 Cabinet departments, the Executive Office of the President, the Federal Reserve System, and 100+ independent agencies.

Do Cabinet members have to disclose finances?
Yes — under the Ethics in Government Act (1978), every Senate-confirmed appointee files OGE Form 278e annually and Form 278-T within 30 days of any trade. All public via the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

How many officials does GovGreed track?
39 senior officials: POTUS, VP, 15 Cabinet secretaries, IC leadership, senior White House staff, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and key agency heads. Each links to their primary OGE disclosure.

What are federal equity stakes?
Direct government ownership stakes, loans, or grants in publicly-traded companies. Examples: Intel CHIPS, MP Materials/DoD critical minerals, USA Rare Earth/Commerce. Tracked by ticker, agency, $ size, and 30-day price reaction.

Has any Cabinet member been prosecuted?
Criminal prosecution is rare. Enforcement is primarily civil through OGE referrals to the DOJ. The Hegseth/BlackRock matter (March 2026) is the most recent public conflict-of-interest inquiry; Senator Warren's letter to the SEC is on file.

How does this compare to Congress?
Congress files under the STOCK Act — different form (PTR), different filing window (45 days), different agency. We track all 538 Congress members at /legislative.

← Back to The Capitol

Legislative Branch → Judicial Branch →

Sources: U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) · ProPublica OGE dataset mirror · SEC EDGAR · USASpending.gov · agency press releases · Federal Register. oge.gov · ProPublica OGE · SEC EDGAR

GovGreed is not affiliated with the U.S. Government. Not financial advice. Not legal advice. [live render]