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AI Villains And The Trump Administration

The Trump Administration is all in on artificial intelligence. The federal government shares the tech industry’s vision for AI to be embedded everywhere, displacing human thought and labor and deepening the strains on the environment and climate.

July 09, 2026

Fletcher Calcagno

Newsletter Artificial IntelligenceExecutive BranchRevolving DoorTech

Introducing Our AI Villains Tracker

To understand the Trump administration’s policy on AI, one has to look beyond Trump’s own pronouncements to the AI “experts” he surrounds himself with. To that end, we at the Revolving Door Project are launching our AI Villains Tracker—an compendium of the people responsible for crafting and delivering some of the least popular policy decisions made by the second Trump Administration. 

July 08, 2026 | The American Prospect

Fletcher Calcagno Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Op-Ed CryptocurrencyEthics in GovernmentFintechIndependent Agencies

Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps

Last month, Fortune reported that Theodore Gillibrand, son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), had received a $30 million dollar round of investment for his company, American Perpetual Exchange Commission (APEC). The funding round valued APEC at $300 million and was led by Lux Capital, a venture capital firm whose other investments include the Peter Thiel-backed Anduril Industries and Erebor Bank.

July 01, 2026

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Press Release Climate and EnvironmentEthics in GovernmentExecutive Branch

Draining National Parks to Fill the Reflecting Pool: The Trump Administration Is Redirecting Millions From National Treasures To DC Vanity Projects 

WASHINGTON — Today the Revolving Door Project released a report examining the National Park Service’s distribution of awards out of its Recreational Fee account so far in 2025-2026 as compared to 2023-2024. 

Using publicly accessible databases, found a startling 1673.23 percent increase in spending out of the rec fee account to fund projects in D.C., while spending to the nation’s top-ten most visited fee-collecting National Parks dropped by 75.52 percent. 

And, so far during 2025-2026 we found that D.C.-based contracting spending is far outpacing spending at the nation’s top 10-most visited fee-collecting parks AND our top 10-most visited non-fee collecting parks combined.