Join Our Free Weekly Newsletter
Subscribe for regular updates on how the executive branch is or is not serving the public interest and what can be done about it
About the Revolving Door Project
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.
Projects
The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond. Additionally, for three agencies — the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — the Spotlight monitors and exhibits key votes.
Read MoreIndustry Agenda
Building off the work of our Personnel Map, the Industry Agenda is a report series that looks at how different industries seek to influence the staffing of the Biden Administration. In these reports, we take a closer look at the policy issues at stake for various industries, as well as the agencies and offices they will be looking to influence.
Learn MorePersonnel Map
The Personnel Map aims to demonstrate the breadth and depth of corporate America’s interest in the executive branch of the federal government. The map ties major economic sectors to the individual political positions that have the power to regulate, bring enforcement actions against, or disburse funds to the companies in that sector.
Learn MoreJune 02, 2023
Hack Watch: Larry Summers Thinks Starving Older Americans Serves A "Useful Function"
Summers’ evaluation of the deal President Biden struck with House Speaker McCarthy includes tepid support for work requirements.
June 01, 2023 | The American Prospect
How to Cover a Presidential Campaign
As the past six years have clearly illuminated, hollowing out government capacity and rewarding loyalists is at the heart of the Trump gospel, and leveraging power is DeSantis’s modus operandi as well. As coverage of the Republican primaries ramps up, the press must focus on how this style of executive branch mismanagement endangers democracy and the public interest. That’s more important than trying to figure out if DeSantis has the personality to sell this anti-democratic vision.
May 31, 2023 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Tracing the Impact of Sackett v. EPA On Beloved Waters
There is a ripe poetic injustice to the fact that this long Memorial Day weekend in late May—a lush time of year when the generosity of this planet is so apparent—was book-ended by attacks on two of this country’s most important environmental laws.
May 30, 2023
Being A Board Member Is Hard, Just Ask Larry Summers
Former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers recently learned that making business decisions can be hard even if you’re an economist. Or, alternatively, Summers has again proven to be a real-life embodiment of an economic “rational individual;” willing to do whatever maximizes his personal interests, regardless of broader consequences. If true, this further demonstrates why the press needs to end their reliance on Summers for economic speculation – because his judgment is for sale.
June 1, 2023
Ben Freeman - Quincy Institute For Reponsible Statecraft
Defense Contractor Funded Think Tanks Dominate Ukraine Debate
June 1, 2023
Sam Knight - Truthout
Why Is the Fed Seeking Advice From the Architect of Past Financial Meltdowns?
May 31, 2023
Alan Rappeport - The New York Times
14th Amendment Questions Linger Despite Debt Limit Deal
May 31, 2023
Joshua Green - Bloomberg Businessweek
A Debt-Ceiling Deal to Rival the Succession Finale
May 31, 2023
- The Economist
Can the debt-ceiling deal hold?
May 31, 2023
Chris Lehmann - The Nation
Democrats Settled for a Raw Deal
RDP on Twitter
RT @commondreams: "Everyone involved in Biden's decision to renominate him must apologize," wrote @jeffhauser of @revolvingdoorDC. https://…
NEW: You've probably heard a lot of people proclaim that the Fed will only stop hiking rates once inflation gets down to 2%. But why 2%? The answer is.....uh.....it sounds nice? @DylanGyauchL explains the theatrics of inflation-targeting for Hack Watch. https://t.co/AY9ovidnWP
RT @owenslindsay1: Drop everything you’re doing and watch this clip of @jonstewart taking Larry Summers to the cleaners on his cruel inflat…
If you want more evidence that Summers is a hack, our @MaxMoranHi wrote for @thenation about how he scrambled to protect SVB depositors from losing any wealth this week — which totally contradicts the inflation arguments Stewart presses him on! https://t.co/vqKJqMqR7c
What a masterclass by @JonStewart. Larry Summers is used to total deference from most people. When he doesn't get it, he's used to just bullying people into submission with his intellect. But Stewart did his damn homework. Summers wasn't expecting that. https://t.co/woZkiViRct
RT @TheProspect: While the news has fixated on the SVB collapse, Biden’s approval of the Willow Project has received far less attention. It…
RT @RealBankReform: So, Powell held up the statement the measures that he argued were so essential in an effort to prevent accountability a…
RT @RealBankReform: Another detail from @ddayen: Powell's effort delayed the public response "an indeterminate period of time." That's no t…
RT @RealBankReform: Former Fed gov Sarah Bloom Raskin was scathing in comment to @TheProspect: “What they’re doing is really trying to brus…