Office of Government Ethics enforcement weakened for political appointees, with expanded ethics waivers reducing executive branch financial transparency.

Federal spending portals narrowed machine-readable lobbying and contract metadata fields — reducing public ability to cross-reference vendor payments with rulemaking commenters.

OGE extended financial disclosure filing deadlines for senior appointees — reducing real-time visibility into executive branch conflicts of interest during agency rulemaking pushes.

Federal agencies scaled back proactive disclosure of lobbying visitor logs and rulemaking comment datasets — reducing machine-readable transparency required under prior open-government policies.