About From the Author: Due to the overwhelming nature of this project, I have built an AI-augmented solution to help me research and publish the contents on this website - so please excuse any mistakes or misunderstandings. If Donald Trump, the Republican (MAGA) Party, and his associates didn't do so many horrible things, this wouldn't exist. If you'd like to help please reach out (https://github.com/bubltec/greed/issues/views/MDQ6VmlldzIxNjc0). GREED documents the corruption, self-dealing and abuse of power of Donald Trump’s presidency: the first term, the years in between, and the second term now underway. He isn’t doing it alone. Cabinet secretaries and agency heads, lawyers and loyalists, billionaire donors, lobbyists and whole industries carry it out, protect it and profit from it. Every entry names who did what, when, and who benefited. What’s here - Pay-to-play and self-dealing: money demanded from companies, donors rewarded with policy, and the president’s own businesses profiting from the office. - Retaliation: threats against critics, prosecutors, the press and political opponents, and the use of government power to punish them. - Dismantled oversight: inspectors, regulators and enforcement gutted or handed to the industries they were supposed to police. - Abuse of power: pardons for allies, manufactured emergencies, and claims of immunity from the law. - The human cost: what the cuts, rollbacks and wars mean for people’s health, safety, rights and livelihoods. The cost to taxpayers Corruption is not only a question of who gets rich. It is paid for by everyone else, through tax dollars, higher bills and a bigger national debt. Our read is that a pattern of favors, rollbacks and spending decisions made for allies and donors wastes public money, even where each decision is defended on its own terms. That is our interpretation. The entries record the figures; we do not add them into one grand total. Some examples, each with its sources in the entry: - Deficits. The 2025 tax law was estimated before passage to add $2.4 trillion to deficits, and the federal deficit reached about $2 trillion in fiscal 2026. See Treasury yields, the Sept. 2026 buyback expansion and the deficit and One Big Beautiful Bill Act: royalty cuts, mandated lease sales, and a delayed methane fee. - Bills paid by the public. Emergency orders keeping retiring coal plants open passed more than $300 million in costs to electric customers by mid-2026 while the plants supplied very little power. See DOE emergency orders keeping retiring coal plants open at ratepayers' expense. These are ratepayer costs, not tax dollars, but they are public money all the same. - War spending. As of Aug. 1, 2026, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the Iran war had cost the Pentagon more than $38 billion, including $21.7 billion to replace munitions, and warned that interceptor stocks could stay depleted for years. The CBO called its estimate uncertain, and the entry keeps a running, dated log of newer figures. See Iran war oil shock: record oil profits, higher prices for everyone else. - Donors and returns. Oil and gas donors gave tens of millions to Trump-aligned committees after a reported $1 billion ask, and policy relief followed. We do not claim the gifts bought the decisions. See The $1 billion ask: fossil-fuel money into Trump's campaign and inauguration and Oil-industry gifts to Trump committees (2023-2025): what FEC filings show. - Rules waived for polluters. More than 180 facilities got two-year exemptions from air-toxics rules after an emailed request process, while the agency that would check the science was cut by about a quarter. See EPA's "electronic mailbox" for Clean Air Act exemptions and the presidential proclamations (2025-2026) and EPA staff, research and budget cuts, and DOGE grant cancellations (2025-2026). The administration says the opposite: that its cuts save taxpayers money, and the entries record those claims too, such as EPA’s statement that its staff reductions would save $748.8 million and that its grant cancellations saved $1.7 billion. Whether savings of that kind outweigh the costs above is the question the record is meant to let readers weigh. Follow the connections None of this happens in isolation. The same people, the same money and the same playbook show up again and again. Every entry links to the others it connects to; the map (/map) shows the whole web at once. Built on the record - Every point is sourced and footnoted to the reporting, filings or documents behind it. - Open questions are noted. Where a key fact is denied or still unsettled, the entry ends with a one-line note saying so. - Their side is on the record too. Official responses and defenses are quoted and attributed, next to the critics’. - Connections are labelled as sourced or inferred, so you know which links a source states and which are our read. Open data The whole record is free to download as JSON from /api/export (/api/export).