# Government Corporations Hub Government corporations are federal entities that deliver a service on a business model — they have boards, often charge for what they provide, and are meant to operate with more commercial independence than a line agency. Congress charters them when a public mission benefits from market-style operation: delivering mail, insuring bank deposits, generating power, running passenger rail. The capture lens: their quasi-commercial independence makes them targets for two distinct moves — **privatization** (turn the public asset over to private owners, a long-running goal for USPS and Amtrak) and **politicization of the board** (replace independent directors with loyalists). The U.S. Postal Service is the recurring flashpoint, because it combines a universal-service mandate, a large unionized workforce, and a role in mail-in voting that has made it politically charged. ## Major government corporations Tracked as plain references until individual pages are built: - [[USPS]] (United States Postal Service) — universal mail delivery; recurring privatization and board-politicization target - [[FDIC]] (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) — deposit insurance and bank resolution - [[TVA]] (Tennessee Valley Authority) — power generation across the Tennessee Valley - [[Amtrak]] (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) — intercity passenger rail - [[Development Finance Corporation]] (DFC) — successor to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; the only agency with unambiguous statutory authority to hold equity in private firms, now a vehicle in the [[Sovereign Wealth Fund]] experiment - **Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)**, **Export-Import Bank (EXIM)**, **Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)** ## Related - [[Federal Agencies]] — parent MOC - [[Cabinet Departments Hub]] - [[Independent Executive Agencies Hub]]