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April 08, 2025
Billionaires in the Trump Admin: Frank Bisignano
Frank Bisignano, nominee for Social Security Administration Commissioner. Net worth: $1 billion

April 08, 2025
Billionaires and the Trump Admin: Mehmet Oz
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz. Net worth: $200 million

April 08, 2025
Billionaires and the Trump Admin: Chris Wright
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. Net worth: $170 million

April 08, 2025
Billionaires and the Trump Admin: Steve Witkoff
Trump Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is a major Trump donor, real-estate mogul, and crypto scam artist.

April 07, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
IRS understaffing could undermine tax collection, audits, and public service.

April 07, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Department of Interior
Department of Interior understaffing has been threatening environmental protection efforts and the health of marginalized communities.

April 04, 2025
DOGE Agent: Clark Minor
Musk Connection: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Lead Palantir’s platform infrastructure and cloud strategy
DOGE Deployment: Department of Health and Human Services

April 04, 2025
Week Eleven: Incomprehensible AI Number-Crunching Slop Sets The Scene Of Trump’s Global Tariff Shakedown
It’s week eleven 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 ten issues can be found here, and follow us on Bluesky and X for more updates on this work.
This week has been defined by yet more chaos, as the gaggle of incompetent buffoons that seemingly make up the policy infrastructure of this administration continue to play at political theater while doing all that they can to ruin the rest of our lives. From crashing the global economy to giving corporations free license to do whatever they want, they’re succeeding.

April 03, 2025
DOGE Agent: Gregory Barbaccia
Musk Connection: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Palantir Technologies, blockchain search engine Elementus, software engineering and finance start up Theorem
DOGE Deployment: Chief Information Officer, Executive Office of the President
April 02, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Polluters Get A Presidential Exemption From The Law
Are you a highly polluting industrial facility? Maybe a coal-fired power plant, or a coke oven, or a chemical manufacturer, or a commercial sterilizer? Do your neighbors complain about the eye-watering, throat-choking clouds that billow from your stacks? Are you tired of being the bad guy just because your operations emit arsenic, ethylene oxide, mercury, and lead into the air and water, which can cause cancer, brain defects, and other illnesses? Well, President Trump has got your back.

April 02, 2025 | The American Prospect
Trump Quietly Decimates a Pivotal Labor Relations Agency
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has been destroyed. It provided free collective-bargaining mediation and saved hundreds of millions of dollars in labor costs.

March 31, 2025
DOGE Agent: Christopher Stanley
Musk Connections: SpaceX, Starlink, X (Twitter)
DOGE Deployments: White House, FHFA
March 28, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 10: Bad Signals All Around
As Trump expanded his crypto ventures, Trump’s CFPB sought to return money it had previously obtained from a mortgage lender that settled with the agency over claims of racial discrimination.
March 28, 2025
Revolving Door Project Decries Trump’s Assault On Federal Employees’ Labor Rights
In response to President Trump’s instruction to government agencies to end collective bargaining rights with federal worker unions, Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser issued the following statement:

March 28, 2025
Silencing Silent Spring
In Abundance and in press, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have made it clear they want to close the book on Rachel Carson’s seminal work.