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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sat atop millions of dollars in flood prevention grants while the West Coast was being inundated. Now she’s slashing FEMA disaster response staff.

It’s weeks forty-nine through fifty-one of the Revolving Door Project’s Corruption Calendar, where we highlight the latest slate of corporate corruption that’s shaping the Trump Administration, its agenda, and the material impacts of that corruption on real people. Our first forty eight issues can be found here, and you can follow us on Bluesky and X for more updates on this work.

Americans rang in 2025 with champagne. The Trump administration rang in a public health nightmare.

The Trump administration has been criminally negligent when it comes to disaster mitigation and response. Check out our interactive timelines documenting the White House’s pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty.

How U.S. Home Insurers Are Responding to Climate Change

Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it.

Corruption Calendar Week 47-48: Trump’s giveaways to corporations continue to pile on as Americans suffer from an affordability crisis.

It’s hard times at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three principal bank regulators in the country, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve. All three, plus other financial institution regulators at the National Credit Union Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, have been gutted to varying degrees over the first year of Trump 2.0.

The administrative state’s Kafkaesque transmogrification into the mafia state

The Trump administration doesn’t need to formally eradicate FEMA to destroy it.

The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) has spent millions opposing emissions regulations, consumer protections, and more.

The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.

One of the defining characteristics of American life in the twenty-first century is its extreme imbalance: excess amid scarcity. While the world teems with a surplus of disposable consumer goods, essentials like healthcare, housing, education, and energy are prohibitively expensive. Much of this imbalance is by design. Powerful corporations profit from distorting public goods into private commodities, and individual and collective choices are replaced by corporate prescriptions that do not meet our needs. This dynamic is particularly visible in the tech industry forcing artificial intelligence into every corner of our lives, regardless of whether it is wanted.