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PHPete Hegseth
Secretary of Defense · Department of Defense
Hegseth reported 29 sales totaling an estimated $428K, consistent with ethics agreement divestitures. Holdings included WMT, TMO, PEP, PNC, MSFT, among others.
29trades
29sales
0purchases
Feb 7, 2025 – Apr 1, 2025
Last filing: Apr 11, 2025|Transactions: Feb 7, 2025 – Apr 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.
Transaction timeline
One dot per disclosed trade, sized by amount. Red = sale, green = purchase.
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Circle size = transaction amount
Filter29 trades
| Date | Description | Type | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2025 | Morgan Stanley | Sale | $1K-$15K | |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Walmart, Inc. | Sale | $1K-$15K | |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | Sale | $1K-$15K |
Source documents on file with OGE
Every financial disclosure document the Office of Government Ethics has published or recorded for Pete Hegseth. Open Cabinet summarizes each document 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.
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Hegseth's Broker Contacted BlackRock About Defense ETF Before Iran Strikes
Financial Times / CNBC · 2026-03-31
Hegseth's Morgan Stanley broker contacted BlackRock about a defense-sector ETF weeks before Trump began strikes on Iran. Pentagon denied wrongdoing.
Source filings
Original PDFs from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. These are the documents Open Cabinet parses.
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