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July 03, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Want a Big Tent? Use Congressional Oversight
Ahead of the 4th of July holiday weekend, Republicans are trying to ram through their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes enough horrors to dampen any parade. As written, the bill will do untold harm to Americans across the country through devastating cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, and student loan forgiveness. Working people will suffer, but the Republican’s bill will be a boon for the wealthy, fossil fuel interests, and draconian immigration detention centers. Democrats will not be able to stop the destruction, but they can use every available tool to make sure the public knows who is to blame.
May 07, 2025
Revolving Door Project Executive Director Testifies About Trump Family Crypto Corruption
RDP Executive Director Jeff Hauser testified about the Trump family’s use of cryptocurrency as a vehicle for blatant corruption
May 02, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week 15: Trump, Binance and MGX—A Crooked Match Made In Dubai.
This week, the Trump family continued to blur the line between politics and business with Trump 2028 merch and a billion dollar deal with Binance and MGX. Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s potential stock sales and a new elite Washington club further expose this convergence. President Trump’s pardons of allies, Elon Musk’s apparent sway over personnel picks, and the rollback of consumer and coal miner protections add to the ethical concerns.
April 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
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.
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
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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 14, 2025
What the People Suing the Trump Administration Are Saying About the Continuing Resolution
Senator Minority Leader Schumer’s stance on whether or not to accede to the continuing resolution depends in part on specific legal claims. We look at whether those claims ought to be accepted at face value or not.
March 12, 2025
Revolving Door Project: New Laws Implicitly Sanction Trump and Musk’s Violation of Existing Laws
The public and the courts alike need to know that the U.S. Congress does not accept Donald Trump and Elon Musk shredding the core precepts of our Constitution’s separation of powers.
March 12, 2025
Republicans Reveal Their True Intentions At The 11th Hour
Even on the brink of a shutdown, the GOP remains committed to shutting down the federal government.
March 05, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
The Government Shutdown is Already Here. Congressional Democrats need to act like it.
There’s a lot of back-and-forth right now about whether Congressional Democrats should, effectively, negotiate with terrorists. It goes like this: Congress has until March 14 to pass a bill funding the government to avoid a government shutdown. Republicans need some Democrats to vote in favor of the bill in order to get it past the 60-vote threshold in the Senate. Democrats don’t want to see millions of federal workers furloughed. But supporting the Republicans’ bill amounts to agreeing that business as usual can continue despite the coup; despite the illegal shutdown of agencies and unconstitutional impoundment of appropriated money and the flaunting of court orders. Despite, in other words, the five-alarm-fire that is our political reality.
March 05, 2025 | The American Prospect
The Case for a Shadow Cabinet
High-energy progressives can provide a compelling daily account of everything going wrong and coordinate opposition to the Trump-Musk nightmare.
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 25, 2025 | The American Prospect
Why Haven't House Democrats Moved to Impeach Scott Bessent?
There’s mounting evidence that Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary is not telling the truth about DOGE’s infiltration of the federal payments system.
February 19, 2025
The Revolving Door Project Condemns Trump’s Illegal Takeover Of Independent Agencies
In response to President Trump’s lawless actions, Executive Director of The Revolving Door Project, Jeff Hauser and Senior Researcher Toni Aguilar Rosenthal released the following statement:
February 17, 2025
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil on Democrats' Muddled, Painful Response to Trump-Musk Coup
RDP senior researcher Kenny Stancil spoke with Counterpoint’s Scott Harris about his article, “Where Is the Democratic Opposition?”, and the need to organize an effective and aggressive national Trump opposition movement both inside the Democratic Party and across civil society.