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About the Revolving Door Project
The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.
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The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond. Additionally, for three agencies — the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — the Spotlight monitors and exhibits key votes.
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Hackwatch is where we monitor the mainstream media’s favorite Democratic-leaning economic analysts for conflicts of interest, perverse incentives, and just flat-out erroneous reasoning. We identify who the bad actors are, explain why they’re compromised and wrong, and demand that outlets stop poisoning the information ecosystem with discredited neoliberal orthodoxy and start giving people access to other, better-informed perspectives.
Learn MoreSupreme Transparency
Supreme Transparency—a project of Take Back the Court, True North Research, and the Revolving Door Project—sheds light on an oft-overlooked way that the U.S. Supreme Court’s billionaire benefactors peddle influence: amicus briefs. The Supreme Transparency site exposes the more subtle yet no less destructive ways that right-wing amicus filers and oligarchic court-whisperers hold sway over SCOTUS.
Learn MoreJanuary 15, 2025
Here Are Some Files The Revolving Door Project Has On Trump Nominees
We are pleased to share our finalized research product on Trump nominees. Stay tuned for more research to be published soon.
January 15, 2025
The Revolving Door Project Denounces Former Senator Stabenow’s Cash Grab.
Stabenow Has Joined A K St. Firm Where She Will Undoubtedly Be Well Rewarded By The Cryptocurrency Industry For Her Faithful Service To Their Cause While In Government.
January 15, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Tough Questions For Trump Nominees: The Lee Zeldin and Scott Turner Edition
We urged a more aggressive and justifiably confrontational approach in our recommended questions for Doug Burgum, Chris Wright, Russell Vought, Pam Bondi, and Scott Bessent, which you can read here and here. Today we’ll get into questions for Lee Zeldin, nominee for the Environmental Protection Agency, and Scott Turner, nominee for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
January 14, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
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Tough Questions For Trump Nominees
We’re back for another edition of this newsletter proposing tough questions that need to be asked of Trump’s nominees. This iteration will cover Pam Bondi, the nominee for Attorney General, and Scott Bessent, the nominee to lead the Department of Treasury.
January 13, 2025
Ryan Tarinelli - Roll Call
Trump’s attorney general pick must navigate lobbying background
January 12, 2025
The Democracy Labs - The Democracy Labs
Trump Nominees Tracker: Updated Jan 12
January 9, 2025
Rebecca Schoenkopf - Wonkette
Living In Fontana, Got A Kitchen For His Farm. Tabs, Thurs., Jan. 9, 2024
January 8, 2025
Matthew Yglesias - The Seattle Times
For Democrats, less news is bad news
January 6, 2025
Kyle Campbell - The Bond Buyer
Michael Barr, the Fed's top regulator, to step down
January 2, 2025
Meghan Blonder - The Washington Free Beacon
Biden Lobbied To Grant Clemency to Culprit Who Leaked Tax Returns of the Wealthy to Left-Wing News Outlet
RDP on Twitter
The nomination processes of Trump's dangerous and corrupt picks are in full swing, but some Dems are failing to be combative in these hearings. Our latest edition of this series has questions to ask EPA nominee Lee Zeldin and HUD nominee Scott Turner. https://t.co/3j4tm2Jc01 https://t.co/VmBT6Vk68J
We called for Dems to play hardball with Trump's Energy pick, fracking CEO Chris Wright, as LA burns and the globe breaches 1.5° C of warming. Dems in the hearing: "Happy birthday! I hope we're not boring your grandson! Will you come visit my state?" https://t.co/lMy6sC4O81
talents to a lobbying shop co-founded by former Republican Congressman Connie Mack. Because crypto, like the allure of the lobbying door, appeals to the avaricious of both parties without consideration of political party.” https://t.co/ltPTUpPRdG
was the crypto industry’s primary advocate within the Biden Administration after Stabenow secured for him the chairmanship of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). And so it is no surprise that at 74, retired with a full pension, Stabenow is now taking her...
Release: The Revolving Door Project Denounces Former Senator Stabenow’s Cash Grab. "Perhaps no Democrat with significant legislative power during the Biden years was more all-in for crypto than Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. Similarly, Stabenow’s protege Rostin Behnam...
Liberty Energy was fined $14,502 for the incident, just one of many workplace safety & environmental violations under Wright's leadership. It's gone virtually unreported. At today's hearing, Dems MUST highlight this horrible safety record that Wright bears responsibility for. https://t.co/47T0w3st7g