Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database ^80.5%

The Intercept - By Lauren Harper - 3/17/2026, 6:59 PM

Negativity Bias 69.4% - Appeal to Emotion 34.7% - Pessimism Bias 24.9%

Donald Trump signs an executive order on March 25, 2025, directing the Treasury Department to modernize and centralize its payment system. Lauren Harper is Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy. The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized... more