Executive Branch

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.

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

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

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. 

We are tracking the Trump administration’s personnel cuts, reductions in force, and their impacts on food and drug safety. 

Co-founder, chairman, and CTO of Oracle and Trump donor and ally Larry Ellison. Net Worth: $188.9 billion

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 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.

McMahon, Trump, and Republicans are targeting LGBTQ kids.

Welcome back to Watchdog Weekly. We’ve been busy so far this hurricane season, tracking the literal and metaphorical storms gathering on the horizon as elite immunity spreads its shadow over the American landscape. Here are some of the projects we’ve been working on lately:

A collection of RDP’s work trying to shed light on the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, rising insurance premiums and declining coverage, and housing injustice.

The confirmation hearing of OMB nominee Hal Duncan confirmed he will be henchman executing Trump and Vought’s agenda.