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January 15, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

KJ Boyle

Newsletter 2024 Election/TransitionClimate and EnvironmentHousingIndependent Agencies

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 08, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter

2024 Election/TransitionClimate and EnvironmentCorporate Crackdown

Who Bought The Presidency?

With less than two weeks until Trump’s inauguration, the Senate confirmation process for his roster of loyalists will be underway before we know it. The confirmation hearings for Trump’s energy picks are already set, with hearings for Interior nominee Doug Burgum, Energy nominee Chris Wright, and EPA nominee Lee Zeldin scheduled for January 14, January 15, and Wednesday or Thursday of next week respectively. This newsletter series will highlight the ties between Trump’s personnel picks and the exploitative industries and their billionaire CEOs who will be enriched by their appointments.

December 23, 2024 | The American Prospect

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Op-Ed

Congressional OversightDepartment of Veterans Affairs

The VA's Self-Made Dialysis Disaster

Former Representative Doug Collins is Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a federal agency that oversees the administration of health care to over 9.1 million veterans. Collins, notably, is a veteran himself, but has seemingly little background on veterans issues. His early pronouncements are superficially bland, promising to “root out corruption, and ensure every veteran receives the benefits they’ve earned,” among other things.