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Frank Bisignano, nominee for Social Security Administration Commissioner. Net worth: $1 billion

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz. Net worth: $200 million

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. Net worth: $170 million

Trump Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is a major Trump donor, real-estate mogul, and crypto scam artist.

IRS understaffing could undermine tax collection, audits, and public service.

Department of Interior understaffing has been threatening environmental protection efforts and the health of marginalized communities.

Musk Connection: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Lead Palantir’s platform infrastructure and cloud strategy
DOGE Deployment: Department of Health and Human Services

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.

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

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.

Musk Connections: SpaceX, Starlink, X (Twitter)

DOGE Deployments: White House, FHFA

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.