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Illuminating the Home Insurance Crisis

A collection of RDP’s work trying to shed light on the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, rising insurance premiums and declining coverage, and housing injustice.

April 23, 2025

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Blog Post Department of Justice

U.S. Attorneys Under Trump

The Office of the United States Attorneys has 94 offices (led by 93 Attorneys) across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Each U.S. Attorney is appointed to these districts by the President for a four-year term, and each official serves as the top federal law enforcement officer in their district, and has historically had significant latitude over policy implementation within the district’s borders. 

April 23, 2025

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Press Release Department of JusticeEthics in Government

Revolving Door Project Condemns Trump Installing Sycophants, Conspiracists, and Corporate Hacks in U.S. Attorneys Offices

In response to the Trump administration’s reckless appointments of conspiracy theorists and corporate hacks to US Attorney positions across the country, Revolving Door Project (RDP) announced a project to track their appointments. RDP senior researcher, Toni Aguilar Rosenthal released the following statement:

April 23, 2025 | The American Prospect

Xaver Clarke

Op-Ed Congressional OversightElon MuskExecutive BranchGovernanceJudiciarySupreme CourtTrump 2.0

The GOP Is Destroying Justice to Embolden Trump’s Lawlessness

Since returning to office, Donald Trump has been repeatedly blocked by judges ruling against his most extreme actions: unconstitutional impoundments of congressionally appropriated funds, illegal purges of civil servants, and executive orders attacking law firms that don’t accede to his arbitrary and capricious demands.

April 22, 2025

Press Release DOGETrump 2.0

Trackers Help the Public Follow DOGE’s Chaos

The Revolving Door Project (RDP) is trying to help make sense of DOGE’s chaos by making tangible the harm that the Trump administration is doing. RDP is providing a range of resources for the media and the public. RDP is regularly updating resources that track public health crises and the Trump administration’s defiance of court orders as well as profiles of DOGE personnel.

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 | Watchdog Weekly

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.