Trump 2.0: Tracking Material Impact
Throughout the course of the Trump presidency, the Revolving Door Project plans to provide real time, clear-eyed analyses of the President’s approach towards governance, staffing, ethics and critically, the material impact of his pro-corporate, corrupt attitudes. As we outlined in our audit of DOGE’s first year of destruction, the Trump administration has taken a systemic approach to its scorched-earth campaign against the federal government’s public interest responsibilities. There have been real human, political, and institutional costs of this abandonment of the public interest.
Through memos, factsheets, reports, and articles linked below, we will continue to lay bare the devastating consequences of: dismissal of essential federal workers; gutting of enforcement capacity at agencies tasked with cracking down on corporate wrongdoing; attacks on public data, environmental protections, public health precautions (e.g., food safety, vaccines), and financial regulations; assault on disaster preparedness and response efforts; impoundment of appropriated funds; and closure of critical federal government offices.
Trackers
Trump’s Disastrous Disaster Policy
Personal Information at Risk: The Trump Admin’s Mishandling of Sensitive Data
Aviation Disasters And Trump Administration Attacks On Air Safety
How the AI Industry’s Race To Dominance Has Harmed Children
Tracking the Environmental Harms of Trump Actions
Cuts to Corporate Enforcement Capacity
Newsletters
Right Wing Animus for Public Data
How DOGE Broke Social Security
New Year, Same Trump: Making America Sick Again
Trump Hands Another Victory To Cancer’s Profiteers
President Trump Would Like You To Say Goodbye To Our Food Inspectors
Reports
DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
Articles
Trump’s NLRB Doesn’t Want to Investigate Worker Complaints
Dispatches From Trump’s War on Information
DOGE Lives On Through Russell Vought
The Trump Administration Is Quietly Preparing to Bring Back School Segregation
The Republican Plot to Destroy Education Research
Trump Doesn’t Need DOGE to Kneecap Independent Agencies
The Office of Federal Student Aid Is Under Attack
Trump Is Blinding the Government to Methane Pollution. But Others Are Still Watching.
Memos
Cabinet Exit Memos
The Real Cost of Trump’s First Year
Not Even Veterans Are Exempt From The Trump Firing Line
DOGE & Co Set Their Sights on Americans With Disabilities
DOGE Envisions A Future Without Critical Public Health Services
The Dire Consequences For A Society With No Department of Education
Trump’s Hiring Freeze Will Make Life Worse for the American People