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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
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 27, 2025
Release: Resources for Tracking Trump Admin from Revolving Door Project
Here at the Revolving Door Project, we believe it’s critical to keep track of the myriad ways in which the Trumpian approach to governance will materially affect people’s lives. That’s why we have developed resources, which we will be updating continuously, to ensure interested parties can make sense of the breadth of Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution.
March 27, 2025
Obeying in Advance: Who's Capitulating to the Trump Administration’s Pressure Campaign?
On March 21, BigLaw firm Paul Weiss struck a deal with the Trump administration in exchange for an executive order targeting them to be lifted. This capitulation to Trump undermines the rule of law and will invite future authoritarian moves by the administration. As RDP’s Henry Burke wrote, “Appeasement will only lead to certain destruction.”
March 26, 2025
Paul, Weiss Appeased Trump. More Attacks on BigLaw Will Follow.
Fascists respond to capitulation with more aggression. Elon Musk has already started targeting firms himself.
March 26, 2025 | The American Prospect
An Abundance of Credulity
In the months before the re-election of Donald Trump precipitated our rapid descent into authoritarianism, two books were being written about the idea that progressivism went astray in the 1960s and 1970s. In Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson describe a drift into a “politics of scarcity,” and in Why Nothing Works, Marc Dunkelman calls it a “cultural aversion to power.” Both books ask a pertinent question: Why doesn’t the government do big, bold things, quickly, to address the pressing issues of our time? We have an abundance of viewpoints and veto points, they argue, but a shortage of affordable housing and transmission lines. Something’s got to give. The unstated question, of course, is who must give.
March 26, 2025
IRS Cuts and the Signal Chat Scandal: The Latest Indicators of the Trump Administration’s Recklessness
While national security adviser Michael Waltz’s Signal chat security breach debacle has dominated headlines this week, it’s not the only act of reckless disregard for the safety and security of Americans in the news. This week also saw projections that Trump-Musk cuts to the IRS could lead to a $500 billion tax revenue shortfall this year, with a slump already in effect at this point in tax season.
March 25, 2025
Ezra Klein Said What?
Abundance co-author’s word salad about environmental review left us scratching our heads.
March 22, 2025 | Common Dreams
The End of Free Speech?
If the White House can punish anybody who engages in speech it dislikes, nobody will be free to criticize the government—and corporate criminals will be free to run amok.
March 21, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 9: Trump’s Crypto Business Beats Keeping Contaminants Out Of Our Drinking Water
Among many instances of blatant corruption, this week saw huge gains for Trump’s crypto firm and huge losses for the EPA’s scientific research arm.
March 21, 2025
Not Even Veterans Are Exempt From The Trump Firing Line
Over the past couple months, the Trump administration has fired approximately 2500 people at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides lifelong healthcare services and non-healthcare benefits such as disability compensation, home loans and life insurance to veterans. There has been widespread outrage among veterans in response to the administration’s actions thus far, but Trump and VA Secretary Doug Collins remain set on tightening the screws.
March 19, 2025
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Tough Questions for Paul Atkins
Senators shouldn’t go easy on Trump’s nominee to lead the SEC. Here are some things they ought to ask him about.
March 19, 2025 | The American Prospect
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DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans
The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.
March 19, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Trump Officials Are Openly Defying Judges’ Orders
“We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think.”
These were the words of Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan after the Trump administration violated multiple court orders and deported people without due process. Are we in a constitutional crisis yet? (Yes, and this is not the first time Trump officials have refused to obey the courts; we are tracking these violations here.)
March 18, 2025
Release: Trump’s Attempt To Fire Democratic FTC Commissioners Makes Americans Easy Targets For Corporate Abuse
In response to President Trump’s decision to attempt to fire the Federal Trade Commission’s Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Revolving Door Project Founder and Executive Director Jeff Hauser issued the following statement.