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September 17, 2025
Attrition in the Early Months of the Trump Administration
According to data released in July by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), March 2025 was, by a large margin, the single worst month for federal hiring since at least October 2004.
August 13, 2025
How Trump’s BLS Nominee Could Undermine Our Social Safety Net
The agency’s data feeds directly into many social programs—programs EJ Antoni opposes.
July 25, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 27: Media Merger Madness
Also, CFPB pays for Russ Vought’s security detail while ignoring Americans’ financial security—and other tales from Trump’s swamp.
June 13, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 21: Trump Cuts the Corruption Cops
This week, nothing too unusual happened, which is to say that the Trump administration continued its crusade to further enrich the rich at the expense of everyone else.
May 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
Elon Musk’s Fake Retreat From DOGE
Despite the billionaire nominally stepping back, his loyalists remain in control of the group.
May 01, 2025 | The American Prospect
Public Records Wreckers
The consequences of gutting FOIA offices are both obvious and unknowable.
March 28, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 10: Bad Signals All Around
As Trump expanded his crypto ventures, Trump’s CFPB sought to return money it had previously obtained from a mortgage lender that settled with the agency over claims of racial discrimination.
March 14, 2025
What the People Suing the Trump Administration Are Saying About the Continuing Resolution
Senator Minority Leader Schumer’s stance on whether or not to accede to the continuing resolution depends in part on specific legal claims. We look at whether those claims ought to be accepted at face value or not.
March 10, 2025
DOGE & Co Set Their Sights on Americans With Disabilities
Cuts to the Social Security Administration will hurt Social Security beneficiaries, particularly the most vulnerable among them.
February 07, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week Three: Musk’s Engineers Take Over
It’s a Musk-engineered takeover.
January 29, 2025
Impoundment: An Illegal Power Grab That Will Harm People
On Monday, the Trump administration illegally ordered a “pause” in all federal grant and loan programs, cutting people off from critical programs in order to grab power for Trump himself.
October 30, 2024
Corporate Crackdown Successes: The CFPB’s Revival of Robust Consumer Protection
Under Director Rohit Chopra, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has facilitated a resurgence in consumer relief won through enforcement actions relative to the Trump years, which were marked by lax enforcement (see the chart below from the CFPB). This increase in relief came amidst industry-driven challenges to the agency’s constitutionality. The case stifled some potential action, but the agency’s enforcement actions have rebounded since the Supreme Court rejected the challenges to its existence.
September 19, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Next Administration Can Stop the Government’s Endless Ethics Scandals
Federal officials of any kind should not be overseeing anything in which they have a direct financial interest.
September 12, 2024
The Other Group Praised By Ginni Thomas
Since first posting Ginni Thomas’s endorsement to its website, Americans for Limited Government has defended the Thomases over allegations of misconduct and become a frequent advocate at the Supreme Court.
July 26, 2024
Texas Judge Hands Elon Musk A Big Win, Workers A Big Loss
On Tuesday, Judge Alan D. Albright of the Western District of Texas sided with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and ruled that the structure of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional. Specifically, the Judge ruled against the removal protections enjoyed by administrative law judges and the board’s members. The preliminary injunction will prevent the NLRB from pursuing an unfair labor practice charge against SpaceX, but as Matt Bruenig explains, “The real question is going to be what the Supreme Court does once this case makes it to their docket.”