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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 21, 2025
DOGE Agent: Nikhil Rajpal
Musk Connections: Former Twitter and Tesla Engineer
DOGE Deployments: Consumer Finance Protection Bureau and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
February 21, 2025
DOGE Agent: Chris Young
Musk Connections: Director and Treasurer of America PAC
Other Corporate Affiliations: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
DOGE Deployments: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
February 21, 2025
DOGE Agent: Jeremy Lewin
Musk Connections: Lawyer at Munger, Tolles & Olson, which has represented Tesla
Other Corporate Affiliations: Worked at investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey
DOGE Deployment: Head of team at USAID, assigned to General Services Administration and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
February 21, 2025
DOGE Agent: Marc Andreessen
Musk Connections: Firm invested in SpaceX, xAI, and $400 million in Musk’s X (formerly Twitter)
Other Corporate Affiliations: Co-Founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
DOGE Deployment: Unofficial advisor
February 20, 2025
DOGE Agent: Luke Farritor
Musk Connections: Intern at SpaceX; Intern at Starlink
Other Corporate Affiliations: Thiel Fellow
DOGE Deployment: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; State Department; USAID; General Services Administration; Education Department; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Energy Department
February 20, 2025
DOGE Agent: Tom Krause
Musk Connections: Silicon Valley CEO who has been described as a “Musk ally”
Other Corporate Affiliations: CEO of Cloud Software Group; President of Broadcom Software
DOGE Deployment: Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
February 20, 2025
DOGE Agent: Jordan Wick
Corporate Affiliations: Software engineer at Waymo; Founder of start-up Intercept
DOGE Deployment: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
February 20, 2025
DOGE Agent: Gavin Kliger
Corporate Affiliations: Engineer at Databricks
DOGE Deployment: Internal Revenue Service; Office of Personnel Management; General Services Administration; Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; USAID
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.
February 14, 2025
The Revolving Door Project Publishes List Tracking Reports Elon Musk and His Companies Flout the Law and Regulations
The billionaire’s disregard of federal laws and constitutional powers did not arise out of nowhere when he began his work at “DOGE.” It is just the logical outgrowth of a career spent flouting rules and regulations without consequence.
February 14, 2025
Elon Musk Didn’t Start Flouting The Law With DOGE.
Elon Musk is ignoring laws he doesn’t like at DOGE. This is a strategy he learned from the world of business.
February 13, 2025
Questioning Bessent on the DOGE Treasury Raid
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about the Elon Musk-led DOGE team’s meddling in the Treasury Department’s payments system. His answers raise additional questions.
February 13, 2025
Tracking the DOGE Treasury Raid
Unelected billionaire Elon Musk and his DOGE demolition crew have infiltrated the Treasury Department’s payments system. We’re tracking this crisis as it unfolds.
February 12, 2025
Trump Disavowed Project 2025, So Stop Saying There is a Mandate for DOGE
DOGE is merely memeified Project 2025. And President Trump was repeatedly explicit on the campaign trail – he was not running on Project 2025. So why does Musk claim a mandate?