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Individual stock trades disclosed to the Office of Government Ethics — the slice of executive financial activity the public is allowed to see. Open Cabinet makes the filings sortable, searchable and visual.
Most recent filing: May 14, 2026 · Data checked weekly
Transactions filed January 2025 to present. Trade volume is the midpoint of the reporting ranges, summed across all disclosed transactions — not portfolio value, net worth or exposure. A single position bought and later sold counts twice.
Showing the 5 highest-volume officials. Bars are monthly trade counts — the per-trade dot view (one circle per disclosure) is on the full chart. 31 more officials there too.
See every trade →Executive Level I and II officials — cabinet secretaries, agency heads and senior appointees confirmed by the Senate.
Officials with filings in the last 14 days surface at the top. Click any column header to sort the table by that column instead.
President of the United States · Executive Office of the President | 5011 |
Administrator · National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 145 |
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers · Council of Economic Advisers | 77 |
Director, Office of Personnel Management · Office of Personnel Management | 74 |
John PhelanNew Secretary of the Navy · Department of Defense - Department of the Navy | 71 |
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy · Office of Science and Technology Policy | 61 |
Deputy Secretary · Department of Agriculture | 6 |
Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration · Social Security Administration | 306 |
Secretary of Energy · Department of Energy | 302 |
Secretary of Education · Department of Education | 156 |
*Why these officials? Open Cabinet tracks 36 executive branch officials whose 278-T transaction reports are directly downloadable from OGE's public portal. Hundreds more have filed reports that require individual Form 201 requests. This is an open-source project — expanding coverage is an ongoing goal. For raw disclosure documents across 1,500+ appointees, see ProPublica. For legislative branch tracking, see Capitol Trades.
From nomination to compliance — the process every senior official goes through under the STOCK Act and federal ethics law.
When the president selects someone for a cabinet or senior position, the ethics clock starts. The nominee must disclose every financial holding before confirmation hearings begin, as required by the Ethics in Government Act (Pub. L. 95-521).
The nominee submits a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e) listing all assets, income sources, liabilities and positions held (5 U.S.C. §13104). This is the baseline portrait of their financial life.
The Office of Government Ethics reviews the disclosure and negotiates an ethics agreement. The nominee pledges to sell conflicting holdings — usually within 90 days of confirmation. Sales may qualify for tax deferral under a Certificate of Divestiture (26 U.S.C. §1043).
Once the Senate confirms the nominee, they have 90 days to divest the stocks and assets identified in their ethics agreement. This is where Open Cabinet starts watching.
Under the STOCK Act (5 U.S.C. §13104), officials must report individual securities transactions over $1,000 within 30 days of notification — or 45 days of the trade, whichever comes first (5 U.S.C. §13105(l)). Mutual funds and ETFs are exempt (5 CFR §2640.201). These are filed as OGE Form 278-T reports — the core data that powers this tracker.
OGE reviews whether the official met their divestiture deadline and continues to comply with ethics agreements. Late filings carry a $200 fee (5 U.S.C. §13106(a)). Missed deadlines and new purchases in regulated sectors all raise flags — criminal conflict of interest is covered by 18 U.S.C. §208. Open Cabinet shows transactions filed while in office; it does not have access to OGE's compliance determinations and currently lacks the entry-holdings baseline needed to verify divestiture independently.
Most officials sell holdings upon confirmation. New purchases — especially in sectors they regulate — warrant scrutiny.
Officials must report within 30 days of notification or 45 days of the trade (5 U.S.C. §13105(l)). Late filings are common and not necessarily evidence of wrongdoing — but patterns matter.
Officials trading stocks in industries their agency oversees creates potential conflicts. Ethics agreements typically require divestiture.
The Office of Government Ethics posts financial disclosure reports as PDF documents on their public portal, as required by 5 U.S.C. §13107.
Each PDF is read and every transaction is extracted: asset name, ticker, type (sale/purchase), date, amount range and filing status.
Structured data powers timelines, company lookups and aggregate analysis. Currently tracking 34 officials with 3,300+ transactions.
Published reporting on executive branch financial conflicts from ProPublica, CNBC, NOTUS and other outlets.
Collected via AI-assisted search. Checked weekly.
Reuters analysis of Trump's May 14 278-T Periodic Transaction Report filing, which discloses thousands of equity and ETF trades alongside the corporate-bond and municipal-bond activity reported in earlier filings.
Deputy AG Blanche held Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana while shutting down DOJ crypto enforcement. Experts say this violated federal conflicts law.
Hegseth's Morgan Stanley broker contacted BlackRock about a defense-sector ETF weeks before Trump began strikes on Iran. Pentagon denied wrongdoing.
Trump made 170+ purchases of bank preferred securities between May and November 2025, disclosed late. Total estimated at over $20M in financial sector instruments.