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January 28, 2025
Trump's FDIC Hastens the Next Banking Crisis
When the next banking crisis happens, remember that Trump and his loyalists weakened already short-handed regulatory agencies.
January 28, 2025
The Attack on FEMA Begins
Trump’s call to review FEMA’s efficiency is straight out of Project 2025, and doesn’t bode well for an agency he’s threatened to “terminate.”
January 27, 2025
Trump Admin Announces Appointees For Key Leadership Positions At The FTC
Last week, the Trump administration announced two new picks for leading divisions within the Federal Trade Commission: Daniel Guarnera and Christopher Mufarrige.
January 24, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week One: Amidst A Flurry Of EOs, A First Round of CEOs Cashes In
We’re excited to introduce the Corruption Calendar, a new project from Revolving Door Project consisting of a weekly newsletter (you’re reading the first edition) and dedicated social media channels (follow us on X and Bluesky).
January 23, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Four Pillars to Hold Up the Roof of Resistance
This week has been…well, whatever negative thing you want to say about American politics, we probably agree with you. Or think you’re being a bit too hopeful. That said, the coming months must eventually end up as a nadir in the trajectory of modern history. Even if #resistance is seemingly out of fashion (and wrongly so: not all elements of the recent past should be deemed cringe, and #resistance was a net positive, even if it led to outsized audiences for alternatively gauche and grifting behavior), resistance is not only necessary—it can and must succeed.
January 17, 2025
What the WSJ Editorial Board Got Wrong About IRS Whistleblower Charles Littlejohn
The Editorial Board disapproves of Littlejohn for political reasons.
January 15, 2025
The Revolving Door Project Denounces Former Senator Stabenow’s Cash Grab.
Stabenow Has Joined A K St. Firm Where She Will Undoubtedly Be Well Rewarded By The Cryptocurrency Industry For Her Faithful Service To Their Cause While In Government.
January 15, 2025
Here Are Some Files The Revolving Door Project Has On Trump Nominees
We are pleased to share our finalized research product on Trump nominees. Stay tuned for more research to be published soon.
January 15, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Tough Questions For Trump Nominees: The Lee Zeldin and Scott Turner Edition
We urged a more aggressive and justifiably confrontational approach in our recommended questions for Doug Burgum, Chris Wright, Russell Vought, Pam Bondi, and Scott Bessent, which you can read here and here. Today we’ll get into questions for Lee Zeldin, nominee for the Environmental Protection Agency, and Scott Turner, nominee for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
January 14, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
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Tough Questions For Trump Nominees
We’re back for another edition of this newsletter proposing tough questions that need to be asked of Trump’s nominees. This iteration will cover Pam Bondi, the nominee for Attorney General, and Scott Bessent, the nominee to lead the Department of Treasury.
January 13, 2025
The Revolving Door Project Condemns Democrats’ Cowardice In The Face Of Trump’s Nominees
Rather than fight for the best interests of the American public, Senate Democrats have been eager to accede to the policies, culture wars and nominees of Donald Trump. This capitulation will not help the party or its base, it will simply embolden the felon soon to be in the White House
January 13, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Democrats Need To Ask Trump Nominees The Tough Questions
Trump’s nominees need to be asked hard questions about their records of harming the public. So we did the work ourselves and wrote some!
January 10, 2025
Techno-optimism or Corporate PR? We can’t tell.
Catherine Rampell’s penchant for business boosterism is on full display once again, but this time it’s BigPharma that received some free PR.
January 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
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Trump’s Attack on Government Capacity Will Fan the Flames of the Home Insurance Crisis
The U.S. Forest Service is already underfunded and understaffed. Slashing its resources further is likely to unleash more severe wildfires.