DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
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A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
Trump Watch
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Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
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Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
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The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.
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RDP on Twitter
RT @ddayen: Dow and other petrochemical firms complained about a rule that might keep their workers from dying when falling off of ladders.…
Today's Senate Banking Committee hearing was ostensibly about conducting oversight of Vought's leadership at the top consumer watchdog, the CFPB. Yet, half of the Committee's Republicans (Crapo, Cramer, Hagerty, Moreno, Lummis, & McCormick) all skipped their oversight duties.
Tillis grills Vought about DOGE's lack of successful savings: "Right now, I'm picking up a lot of bags of...experienced people leaving, scientists leaving NIH, these random--'you were fired; oh I'm sorry you weren't, wrong email address'--all that stuff is amateurish..." https://t.co/pNZ0JNFhk8
WATCH: Vought doesn't know how many people would have had their medical debt wiped from their credit score (answer: 15 million) or how many more mortgages they could have afforded per year (answer: 22k), had he not overturned the CFPB's medical debt rule. https://t.co/61l6Zy4VCv
Smith cites a NIH-funded study that researched what makes black children more likely to die from blood & bone cancer. When asked what impact the OMB's rule would have on such a study, Vought says, "The days of us funding CRT [critical race theory]...We're not doing that anymore"