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The Trump administration has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner. Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House’s careless approach to major disaster declarations.

Last week, well over 100 million people across the United States and Canada were forced to breathe dangerously unhealthy air, as smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada blanketed much of North America. 

The United States federal government knows a lot about you. If you’ve ever applied for federal student aid, the Department of Education has records of your income and assets. The Social Security Administration begins collecting information from the moment your parents apply for your Social Security number at birth, adds new data every time Social Security taxes are deducted from your paychecks, and continues to monitor you until the day you die.

Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.

The Trump Administration is all in on artificial intelligence. The federal government shares the tech industry’s vision for AI to be embedded everywhere, displacing human thought and labor and deepening the strains on the environment and climate.

Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of OpenAI and Trump donor and ally Sam Altman. Net Worth: $3.4 billion

Chris Lehane is OpenAI’s Chief Government Affairs Officer.

Greg Brockman is the current President of OpenAI—a tech firm he co-founded in 2015 with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Ilya Sutskever.

Co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz and Trump donor and ally Marc Andreessen. Net Worth: $1.9 billion

Kratsios, a former Peter Thiel associate and managing director at Scale AI, now directs the Trump administration’s AI policy.

David Sacks, a venture capitalist with extensive AI and crypto investments, has been steering Trump’s AI policy to the benefit of industry.

Musk is the founder and CEO of xAI, CEO of Tesla, and Chairman of X Corp.

Ellison is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Oracle.

To understand the Trump administration’s policy on AI, one has to look beyond Trump’s own pronouncements to the AI “experts” he surrounds himself with. To that end, we at the Revolving Door Project are launching our AI Villains Tracker—an compendium of the people responsible for crafting and delivering some of the least popular policy decisions made by the second Trump Administration.