Executive Branch

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.

Trump’s White House OMB director has quietly institutionalized the government demolition agenda set in motion by Elon Musk’s wrecking crew.

In case you missed it, RDP just released a new report on the Department of Government Efficiency.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sat atop millions of dollars in flood prevention grants while the West Coast was being inundated. Now she’s slashing FEMA disaster response staff.

The Trump administration has been criminally negligent when it comes to disaster mitigation and response. Check out our interactive timelines documenting the White House’s pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty.

The administrative state’s Kafkaesque transmogrification into the mafia state

The Trump administration doesn’t need to formally eradicate FEMA to destroy it.

The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.

Welcome back to the Revolving Door Project’s weekly newsletter, which is getting a new name: Watchdog Weekly. We’ve been writing this newsletter since the end of 2018, through three presidential administrations, two general elections, and an ongoing crisis of corporate accountability. Since the beginning, we’ve scrutinized the subtle ways in which corporate wealth shapes our politics: not only through direct spending and lobbying, but via the revolving door between industry and government, through interest groups and formal and informal networks, media influence, and more. We exist to help fill the vacuum of knowledge about who holds power and how power is wielded. We are watchdogs, and we wanted a name for this newsletter that reflects our mission to shed light on the ways that money corrupts politics which may otherwise evade scrutiny.

The Trump Administration’s voucher scheme, coupled with potential changes to the Office of Civil Rights, is part of the decades old Republican plan to bring back segregation in schools.

Willfully blinding bank examiners could send us hurtling to yet another financial crisis.

While nearly 7 million Americans marched in “No Kings” protests on Saturday to protest Trump’s lawlessness, the president reposted an AI-generated video of himself in a fighter jet wearing a crown and dumping massive quantities of feces on protestors below.