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April 09, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Trump’s FAA Nominee Led Republic Airways In Fighting Unions, Safety Regulations
FAA nominee Bryan Bedford’s revolving door path creates a shocking conflict of interest.
March 14, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week Eight: The White House Clown Car Dealership
While the lion’s share of this weeks’ news cycle surrounds a potential partial government shutdown (readers of this newsletter know that the government already is substantially shut down by DOGE), Trump and his lackeys continue churning the corruption machine for their own benefit. Trump, Musk, and their underlings shamelessly use the government to get even richer while decimating the government’s capacity to help poor people, farmers, students, women, and well, all of us.
March 04, 2025
Louisiana AG: Targeting Reproductive Healthcare, Ignoring Rampant Corruption
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is leading the state’s fight to prosecute a New York doctor for providing reproductive healthcare while ignoring Gov. Landry’s corruption.
February 26, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
What Leverage Do Congressional Democrats Have?
Hearings, investigations, letters, and longshots: Four ways the Democrats can conduct Congressional Oversight as the minority party.
February 26, 2025 | No Corporate Cabinet
No Corporate Cabinet: Billy Long
IRS Commissioner Nominee Billy Long: Tax the Poor to Pay the Rich
February 05, 2025
Trump’s DCA Crash Response Was A Disaster—Dems Need To Make It A Scandal
We won’t know the full scope of what went wrong to cause the horrific in-air collision at DCA until the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) completes its investigation. That could take up to two years. Oh, and that’s assuming the investigation is independent–which didn’t previously need to be specified, but, well… look around. Given all of that, the opposition to Musk and Trump, including but not limited to Democrats, must not wait to assign blame.
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 | 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!
November 25, 2024
Inflation Did Not Make A Democratic Loss Inevitable
Contrary to popular belief, inflation did not lead to the downfall of incumbents worldwide.
November 20, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
A Lame-Duck Prelude of the Next Four Years
It’s only been two weeks since Donald Trump was re-elected President and the tenor of the next four years is already taking shape. The speed with which Trump’s transition team is announcing executive branch appointments is matched only by the swiftness with which those appointees will decimate the government’s capacity to serve the American people. The question now is whether Democrats and media understand the gravity of the situation and will act accordingly.
November 18, 2024
Neal Katyal: Corporate America’s Staunchest Defender
Neal Katyal, former Solicitor General under President Obama, has spent his post-public sector career defending any corporation willing to pay his exorbitant hourly rate.
October 30, 2024
Corporate Crackdown Successes: The NLRB Has A Strong Record Under Biden
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been an active regulator under the Biden administration, helping shift the balance of power in labor relations to empower workers. The NLRB has utilized both enforcement actions and rulemaking capacity to help workers and unions, much to the chagrin of big business groups.
October 30, 2024
Corporate Crackdown Successes: A Strong FTC Has Made All The Right Enemies
Lina Khan and the Federal Trade Commission have been the target of endless Wall Street Journal hit pieces and antagonistic lobbying from billionaires hoping to cut short Khan’s tenure at the helm of the consumer protection agency. This is not a coincidence. Under Khan’s leadership, the small agency has punched well above its weight by writing cogent rules to protect consumers, blocking anticompetitive mergers, and bringing enforcement actions to punish illegal corporate practices.
October 30, 2024
Corporate Crackdown Successes: The Department of Labor Has Fought For Workers Against Bad Corporate Actors
The Department of Labor (DoL) has been prolific in using its rulemaking abilities to protect workers and increase wages while using its investigative and enforcement authority to hold bad corporate actors accountable. This list is not meant to be comprehensive, but highlights major victories in increasing overtime pay, addressing misclassification of employees as independent contractors, and cracking down on widespread illegal use of child labor.