Trump Watch

Revolving Door Project is continuously updating resources to keep you up to date on Trump’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution.

Corruption of Presidential Powers 

Vought View: Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect and executor of Donald Trump’s government demolition agenda. The implementation of that agenda is unleashing avoidable material harms, from financial fraud to foregone cancer treatments, on people across the United States every day. For Vought, vandalizing the civil service and seizing autocratic control over the federal money spigot is a means to an end. Vought’s objective is to replace our imperfectly democratic government with a fully authoritarian one that better suits oligarchs and far-right ideologues like himself, a self-described Christian nationalist who holds reactionary views on virtually every issue.

Corruption Calendar: A weekly chronicle of the Trump favor machine highlighting examples of corporate corruption shaping the Trump administration’s agenda and their material impact on everyday people.

Judicial Non-Adherence: We are tracking the Trump administration’s failure to comply with court orders, and the programs and services being disrupted by its non-compliance. We are also tracking the actions judges take to attempt to enforce their orders.

Obeying in Advance: RDP is tracking non-governmental institutions that have succumbed to pressure from the Trump administration, further transforming the power of the presidency into a tool for corruption and coercion.

• Democrats at Law Firms That Surrendered to Trump: Dozens of partners currently practicing at firm that have caved to Trump’s demands previously served in the Democratic administrations of Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Material Consequences For Americans

Tracking Material Impact: Memos, factsheets, and articles detailing how the Trump administration’s attacks on the civil service will materially affect people’s lives.

How the AI Industry’s Race To Dominance Has Harmed Children: OpenAI, Google, Meta and xAI continue to rack up devastating scandals while the Trump administration idly watches. Revolving Door Project is tracking how AI companies’ uninhibited growth is harming children and their families.

Trump’s Disastrous Disaster Policy: We are monitoring how the Trump administration’s callous policy choices, before and after bouts of extreme weather, exacerbate avoidable suffering and death.

• Interactive map documenting how Trump’s FEMA has delayed or denied federal disaster aid
• Interactive timeline documenting Trump’s wide-ranging attacks on disaster preparedness and response

Tracking Uses of AI in the Trump Administration: This tracker focuses particularly on uses of artificial intelligence in the federal executive branch to replace federal workers and undermine transparency and due process.

Trump’s War on Public Data: We are detailing the Trump administration’s efforts to manipulate, erase, and undermine the quality of public data.

Corporate Enforcement Capacity: This tracker records cuts made by the Trump administration to enforcement capacity at agencies responsible for overseeing corporations’ activities and identifying wrongdoing. “Enforcement capacity” refers to staffing and funding dedicated to monitoring, oversight, investigation, and preparation of cases against corporations for breaking the law.

Public Health Trackers: We are closely following the Trump administration’s management of public health, including the admin’s response to public health crises.

• Food and Drug Safety
• Measles outbreak
• Bird flu outbreak
• Anti-Vaccine Actions

Environmental Harms Tracker: We are monitoring tangible increases in pollution and environmental and health harms caused by the Trump administration’s actions.

Aviation Safety: We created a resource to track aviation disasters and any future Trump Administration cuts to aviation safety.

Personal Information at Risk: The Trump administration’s regular flouting of privacy laws and data security protocols to support various authoritarian goals is jeopardizing Americans’ sensitive personal information.

Federal Understaffing Spotlight: The Revolving Door Project is analyzing the state of understaffing across the executive branch (a trend kept up by both Democratic and Republican administrations) and assessing what the drastic cuts the Trump administration is enacting would mean for everyday Americans.

Fed Worker Walk Outs: We are tracking career officials resigning from agencies of their own accord, as the Trump admin forces them to choose between following the law or following Trump’s illegal orders.

Trump 2.0 Personnel

Inspectors General Tracker: RDP will be monitoring the current leaders of, and nominees for, Inspectors General positions.

U.S. Attorney Tracker: RDP will be monitoring appointments to U.S. Attorney positions across the country.

Trump’s Cabinet: Check out NoCorporateCabinet.org, where we help to track the corporate insiders and top executives who Trump has picked to run the government, at the expense of working families.

Oligarchs in Trump World: We are logging the most affluent and highly influential people in and around the Trump administration.

Agency Spotlight: We are tracking appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine federal independent agencies.

DOGE Activities and Staff 

DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine: An audit of DOGE’s first year, recounting the wrecking crew’s operational takeover and systemic demolition of the federal government.

How DOGE Broke Social Security: A breakdown of DOGE’s incursion at the Social Security Administration

Tracking State-Level DOGEs: As governors and state legislatures are creating their own DOGE-esque bodies, we are keeping track.

DOGE Personnel: We’ve compiled in one place a list of all of the individuals who have ever been reported to be affiliated with Elon Musk’s DOGE, with links to the original reporting.

• The Agents Behind DOGE’s Attacks: RDP published longer profiles of these reported DOGE employees, including who they are, where they came from, and any conflicts of interest that might make their unfettered access to the federal government dangerous to the public.
• DOGE’s Hit List: We also compiled a list of the agencies that DOGE visited and sought to illegally gut.

Musk Flouting The Law: This list compiles media reports of Musk flouting local laws, federal regulations and more.

DOGE Treasury Raid: Unelected billionaire Elon Musk and his DOGE demolition crew infiltrated the Treasury Department’s payments system. We tracked the crisis as it unfolded.

External Resources

Polling Tracker: Americans’ Opinions of Oligarchy and Corruption. We are tracking polling data to show how the public perceives Trump 2.0 and related political circumstances. We have organized it according to several key themes useful to progressive activists and organizers.

Trump Administration Trackers: We are compiling public resources and trackers relevant to Trump administration actions, personnel, and challenges from civil society.