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What is Trump's Cabinet
Buying and Selling?
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 OGE 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. 28 more officials there too.
See every trade →Tracked officials
Executive Level I and II officials, cabinet secretaries, agency heads and senior appointees confirmed by the Senate.
Officials added or updated in the last 14 days surface at the top. Click any column header to sort the table by that column instead.
 DTPresident of the United States · Executive Office of the President | 5011 |
 AMDeputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration · Social Security Administration | 306 |
 CWSecretary of Energy · Department of Energy | 302 |
 LMSecretary of Education · Department of Education | 156 |
 JIAdministrator · National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 145 |
 DBSecretary · Department of the Interior | 124 |
 LCFormer officialSecretary of Labor · Department of Labor | 98 |
 FBCommissioner · Social Security Administration | 95 |
 CLDeputy Secretary of State · Department of State | 89 |
 SMFormer officialMember, Board of Governors · Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | 77 |
*Why these officials? Open Cabinet tracks 33 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.
How disclosure works
From nomination to compliance, the process every senior official goes through under the STOCK Act and federal ethics law.
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Nominated
Step 1 of 6
2
Disclosure
3
Ethics Agreement
4
Confirmed
5
Ongoing
6
Compliance
1
NominatedThe president nominates a candidate
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).
2
DisclosureThey file a financial report
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.
3
Ethics AgreementThey sign a divestiture plan
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).
4
ConfirmedThe 90-day clock starts
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.
5
OngoingEvery trade gets disclosed
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.
6
ComplianceThe ethics office certifies
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.
What to watch for
Purchases while in office
Most officials sell holdings upon confirmation. New purchases , especially in sectors they regulate, warrant scrutiny.
Late filings
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.
Regulated-sector holdings
Officials trading stocks in industries their agency oversees creates potential conflicts. Ethics agreements typically require divestiture.
How we get the data
1. OGE publishes PDFs
The Office of Government Ethics posts financial disclosure reports as PDF documents on their public portal, as required by 5 U.S.C. §13107.
2. We parse transactions
Each PDF is read and every transaction is extracted: asset name, ticker, type (sale/purchase), date, amount range and filing status.
3. Data becomes searchable
Structured data powers timelines, company lookups and aggregate analysis. Currently tracking 33 officials with 7,001 transactions.
In the News
Published reporting on executive branch financial conflicts from ProPublica, CNBC, NOTUS and other outlets.
Collected via AI-assisted search. Checked weekly.
Trump ethics filing reveals thousands of trades tied to US corporate securities
Reuters · 2026-05-14 · View profile
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.
FAA Chief Dumps Millions in Airline Stock Months After Ethics Deadline
NOTUS · 2026-04-10 · View profile
Bedford finally divested $5-26M in Republic Airways stock in February 2026, months after his October 2025 ethics deadline.
Hegseth's Broker Contacted BlackRock About Defense ETF Before Iran Strikes
Financial Times / CNBC · 2026-03-31 · View profile
Hegseth's Morgan Stanley broker contacted BlackRock about a defense-sector ETF weeks before Trump began strikes on Iran. Pentagon denied wrongdoing.
Lutnick's Children Bought Cantor Fitzgerald with a Loan from Tether
Bloomberg Law · 2026-03-18 · View profile
Lutnick transferred his Cantor stake to his children, funded by a loan from Tether — the crypto company whose $133B in reserves Cantor manages.