Hegseth reported 29 sales estimated at $428K between February 7, 2025 and April 1, 2025, with no purchases on record. Assets sold included WMT, TMO, PEP, PNC and MSFT. None of the transactions were flagged as filed late.
29trades
29sales
0purchases
Feb. 7, 2025 – April 1, 2025
Last filing: June 7, 2025|Transactions: Feb. 7, 2025 – April 1, 2025
Every transaction on file is a sale. This is the pattern you would expect from an official liquidating positions to comply with an ethics agreement, but Open Cabinet does not yet ingest the entry-disclosure baseline (Nominee 278) needed to confirm which holdings have been fully divested.
Get Pete Hegseth filing alerts
Get an email when Open Cabinet publishes an important update to Pete Hegseth's disclosure record.
Confirm via email. No spam, one-click unsubscribe anytime.
Transaction timeline
One mark per disclosed trade, sized by reported amount range. Circle = sale, square = purchase.
Reviewed financial disclosure documents the Office of Government Ethics has published or recorded for Pete Hegseth. Open Cabinet summarizes listed documents observationally and links to the source PDF where one is publicly available. We do not issue compliance verdicts — that is OGE’s role, not ours.
Document timeline
Nominee 278Ethics AgreementCompliance Cert278-T
In the News
Published reporting on Pete Hegseth's financial disclosures from major outlets.
Source: U.S. Office of Government Ethics, 278-T Periodic Transaction Report. Asset values and transaction amounts are reported in ranges as required by federal law. View original filings
Ethics Agreement Compliance Certification for Hegseth's Secretary of Defense role. Marks standard certification sections for ethics-agreement obligations, including resignations, divestitures, transaction reporting, recusals and ethics briefing.
Discloses Fox News Network employment through 11/2024 ($4.6M salary), book royalties from 'Battle for the American Mind' ($100K-$1M), and holdings including Alerian MLP ETF, JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF, and Unit First Trust. Marked as compliant by agency ethics official.
Cross-check:ProPublica’s Trump Team Financial Disclosures database lists 2 filings for this official. Verified against ProPublica's appointee page for Pete Hegseth. ProPublica's page embeds 2 unique DocumentCloud disclosure documents; Open Cabinet may list additional OGE-indexed ethics, compliance, certificate, waiver, or request-only records that ProPublica does not expose as separate DocumentCloud PDFs. No contradictory filing record was identified in this check. View ProPublica record.
Source: U.S. Office of Government Ethics public disclosure portal. Document summaries are observational and do not constitute compliance determinations. Compliance with ethics agreements is certified by OGE in their own Compliance Certification document, which is listed above when on file.