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Every claim below traces to a primary federal record — OGE 278 disclosures, STOCK Act PTRs, FEC bulk filings, FARA, USASpending, SEC EDGAR, CMS Sunshine Act. We built the joins so you don't have to. Free for verified press, custom CSV / chart on request. Numbers refreshed against the live database 2026-07-17 — email us to re-verify any figure the day you publish.

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Angle 01

The Cabinet's $25B in Federal Equity Stakes — And Who Was Trading Around the Announcements

The Trump administration has taken direct equity / loan / grant positions worth ~$25.5B in 7 named public companies (Intel, MP Materials, USA Rare Earth, Plug Power, GE Vernova, +2). For each deal, we have the announcement date and can match it against insider Form 4 buys, congressional STOCK Act trades, and cabinet OGE 278-T filings in the surrounding window.

7
Federal stakes seeded
$25.5B
Total deal value
3.2M
Cross-ref insider×bill rows
Sources: SEC 8-K filings + agency press releases + STOCK Act PTRs + Form 4 + OGE 278-T
Angle 02

Late Filers: 12,559 STOCK Act violations, max gap 997 days

The STOCK Act requires disclosure within 45 days of a trade. 12.2% of the 103,342 deduplicated disclosures we track were filed late. The worst single gap on record is 997+ days. We have per-politician late-filing rates, dollar volume of late-filed trades, and which sectors got the longest delays — Suozzi filed 85.5% late at a 675-day average gap; Pelosi filed 0% late.

12,559
Late filings
12.2%
Of all disclosures
997d+
Worst single gap
28 / 49d
Median / avg gap (45-day limit)
Sources: STOCK Act disclosures (House + Senate Clerks), FMP, QuiverQuant cross-reference
Angle 03

The "Iron Triangle" Bills: Lobbying $ + Donor $ + Insider Trade Same Quarter

For every bill, we score 5 dimensions of political pressure: registered lobbying spend, FEC contributions to sponsoring members, direct corporate insider buys, congressional trades, and FARA foreign-principal activity. The bills with score ≥ 80 across all 5 are the ones where money + votes + trades all align in the same window — quantitatively, not narratively.

440,806
Bill×trade correlations
2,173
Lobbying patterns
2,352
Contribution patterns
Sources: Senate LDA + FEC bulk + STOCK Act + SEC Form 4 + FARA + Congress.gov votes
Angle 04

Trump Cabinet OGE 278s: Crypto, Defense, Pharma Holdings — All Flagged

We parsed every cabinet member's OGE Form 278 / 278-T public financial disclosure into structured line items. Every asset is sector-flagged. Trump alone discloses 3,411 assets and 14,545 parsed 2025 transactions across 13 filings (including the 927-page 2026 annual, parsed deterministically) — with sector flags for crypto, defense, pharma and critical-mineral exposure. The full executive branch: 5,675 periodic (278-T) transactions by 86 filers across three administrations. Per-official breakdowns available.

24,947
Total OGE line items
86
278-T filers (3 administrations)
5,675
Executive 278-T transactions
Sources: OGE 278/278-T public PDFs (extapps2.oge.gov), parsed by GovGreed pipeline
Angle 05

The "Triple Signal" Politicians: Committee Jurisdiction + Donor Industry + Trade Sector All Match

Some politicians trade randomly. Others trade exactly the sector they regulate, funded by donors from that sector, before their committee marks up that sector's bill. We have per-politician scores showing how often that 3-way alignment fires — from S-tier (Pelosi, Tuberville, McCaul) to clean.

135
Politicians with scored signals
16,097
Master signal scores
72.7%
A+ tier hit rate (backtest)
Sources: STOCK Act + FEC + Senate LDA + Congress.gov + committee assignments YAML
Angle 06

FARA Foreign Lobbying: 7,043 Registrants, Mapped to Sponsoring Committees

Every foreign agent registered under FARA has a primary US committee they target. We've mapped country → FARA registrant → targeted committee → member trades in that committee's sector. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, China, Russia — each has a different US-political fingerprint we can chart.

7,043
FARA primary registrants
17,652
Foreign principals tracked
44,416
FARA short-form disclosures
Sources: DOJ FARA (fara.gov bulk), Congress.gov committee assignments
Angle 07

The Pharma "Doctor Pipeline": $22.8B in Direct Sunshine Act Payments, by Company × Year

CMS Open Payments captures every documented payment from a pharma / device company to a US physician (consulting, speaking, gifts, equity). We've aggregated $22.8B across 12,484 company-years and 27,480 physician-equity stakes — cross-referenced with congressional pharma trades and bill activity.

$22.8B
Pharma → doctor payments
27,480
Physician equity stakes
12,484
Company×year aggregates
Sources: CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act) bulk extracts
Angle 08

Donor Plane: 218M Individual Contributions, Searchable by Name or Employer

Every individual contribution ≥$200 to a federal candidate / PAC / committee in the last 5 cycles. 1.14M aggregated donor profiles, 480K aggregated employers. Type "Renaissance Technologies" or "Robert Mercer" — get the full giving history, party split, recipient list, and which politicians they personally bankrolled.

218M
Individual contributions
1.14M
Donor profiles
480K
Employer aggregates
Sources: FEC bulk individual contributions (5 cycles), GovGreed aggregate layer
Angle 09

Bill-Outcome Backtest: Which Predictors Actually Worked

For 13,475 bills in the 119th Congress (and 17K+ in the 118th + 117th), we have closed outcomes via GovTrack + a deterministic pass-likelihood model. Every prediction signal we ship is backtested across 50K+ closed bills — recall, precision, calibration for committee markups, late-stage bills, and stalled bills are all measurable.

62,815
Bills (3 congresses)
52,045
GovTrack closed-outcome labels
95.1%
Recall on enacted-bill investability
Sources: Congress.gov + GovInfo BILLS + GovTrack v2 + own ML labels
Angle 11

AIPAC Money in Congress: $78M For and Against, Nearly Half Spent to Defeat

FEC records carry a direction code most trackers ignore: money spent for a candidate vs money spent to defeat one. AIPAC's PAC + super PAC (United Democracy Project) spent ~$78M around sitting members across 2022–26 — nearly half of it opposing candidates, including $9.83M against Jamaal Bowman alone. Every member ranked, directional, neutral.

$78M
AIPAC-linked spend 2022–26
~half
Spent opposing, not supporting
$9.83M
Against one member (Bowman)
Sources: FEC bulk PAC + independent-expenditure records with the FEC's own support/oppose direction codes
Angle 12

Trump's Net Worth, Read From His Own Disclosure

His 2026 OGE annual (927 pages) discloses ~$645M in income, a $4.2–5.8B net-worth range, a first-ever $57M in crypto (World Liberty Financial), and 575 stock positions including nine defense contractors — plus 14,545 parsed 2025 transactions (8,626 ticker-resolved, ~$1.06B estimated volume). Parsed from the primary filing, not a vendor feed.

$4.2–5.8B
Disclosed net-worth range
575
Stock positions
$57M
Crypto (first disclosure)
Sources: OGE Form 278 (2026 annual), parsed by GovGreed from the primary PDF
Angle 13

The Executive Branch's STOCK Act Nobody Reads: 5,675 Cabinet Transactions

Congress's trades get tracked by a dozen sites; the executive branch files the same kind of periodic transaction reports (OGE 278-T) and nobody reads them. We parsed 5,675 transactions by 86 filer names across three administrations (2020–2026) — Bisignano's $1.1B+ divestiture across 127 transactions, McMahon 156, Phelan 191, Wright 301. Forced-divestiture stories live here.

5,675
278-T transactions
86
Filers, 3 administrations
$1.1B+
One official's divestiture
Sources: OGE Form 278-T public filings (extapps2.oge.gov), parsed by GovGreed pipeline
Angle 14

The 13D Tracker: Who in Congress Bought Before the Activists Filed

Schedule 13D/13G filings announce that someone big just crossed 5% of a company. We ingest all of them — 41,224 filings since Jan 2025, 6,598 activist — and cross-reference against congressional trades: roughly 180 cases where a member of Congress bought the same ticker in the 90 days before the 13D landed.

41,224
13D/13G filings since 1/2025
6,598
Activist filings
~180
Congress-bought-first cases
Sources: SEC EDGAR Schedule 13D/13G + STOCK Act PTRs
Angle 15

The Data-Center Land Rush: NDAs at the Township Level, Money at the Federal Level

Local officials are signing developer NDAs over data-center projects while the same companies' money moves through Washington. Four west-Michigan communities signed NDAs — Microsoft stayed unnamed behind one for nearly a year (Detroit News, Feb 2026). Meanwhile 131 members of Congress have disclosed 1,173 Microsoft trades, and the hyperscalers' PAC money, lobbying filings, and committee overlaps are all in our database. Covering a local fight? Paste your draft into the Money Map and get the federal money layer around your story in one click.

1,173
Congressional MSFT trades
131
Members trading MSFT
4
MI communities under NDA
Sources: STOCK Act PTRs + FEC bulk + Senate LDA + local reporting (Detroit News 2026-02-08). An NDA does not override a state FOIA request.
Angle 16 · Always open

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We've joined STOCK Act, FEC bulk, FARA, OGE 278, USASpending, SEC EDGAR, CMS Sunshine Act, GovTrack, and the Federal Register into one queryable graph. If you have a specific question — "Did anyone in Senate Banking trade BlackRock the week before Bessent's confirmation?" — we can run the join and ship you a CSV + camera-ready chart.

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Methodology & disclaimer. All numbers above are computed live from GovGreed's database, which mirrors public federal sources. Specific row counts may shift ±5% as new filings ingest. We're a data platform, not an editorial outlet — not financial advice, not legal advice. We'll always flag the primary source on every claim. Reach out if you spot a discrepancy — we want every figure to verify against the underlying federal record.