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April 17, 2025

Emma Marsano

Newsletter Corporate CrackdownTaxes

Option A: No More Tax Days for the 1 Percent

This year’s Tax Day was particularly dreary. Headlines outlined the many ways the Trump-Musk administration is attacking the government’s ability to provide public services using tax revenue, while weaponizing the IRS’s access to taxpayer data to terrorize undocumented people, enrich Trump’s allies, and potentially attack Trump’s political enemies. Placed against the backdrop of nine states seeing extended tax filing deadlines due to the continuing impact of fossil-fueled climate disasters, a bleak image of our reality emerges. 

April 11, 2025

Andrea Beaty

Newsletter Corruption CalendarDepartment of JusticeDOGEDoug BurgumElon MuskEthics in GovernmentScott BessentTrump 2.0

Corruption Calendar Week 12: Ethics Be Damned

This week’s stories show that from the Justice Department to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Trump admin is simultaneously eroding, side-stepping, and outright defying the checks and balances that distinguish a government that is accountable to the public from one that exists simply to enrich the elite. 

April 10, 2025

Dorothy Slater Fatou Ndiaye

Blog Post Climate and Environment

RDP Trump Environment Tracker

Trump’s second term began with drastic announcements on Day One and has been chaotic every day since. It can be overwhelming to try to keep up with the cuts to environmental funding, rollbacks to critical regulations, and track the thousands of staff across agencies who have been fired from their roles. The purpose of this tracker is to monitor some of the most important tangible increases in pollution and environmental and health harms caused by the Trump administration’s actions.