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March 05, 2025 | The American Prospect

Op-Ed Congressional Oversight Elon Musk Trump 2.0

The Case for a Shadow Cabinet

High-energy progressives can provide a compelling daily account of everything going wrong and coordinate opposition to the Trump-Musk nightmare.

February 26, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

KJ Boyle

Newsletter Congressional Oversight DOGE Executive Branch Trump 2.0

What Leverage Do Congressional Democrats Have?

Hearings, investigations, letters, and longshots: Four ways the Democrats can conduct Congressional Oversight as the minority party.

February 25, 2025 | The American Prospect

Kenny Stancil

Op-Ed Congressional Oversight DOGE Elon Musk Treasury Department Trump 2.0

Why Haven't House Democrats Moved to Impeach Scott Bessent?

There’s mounting evidence that Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary is not telling the truth about DOGE’s infiltration of the federal payments system.

February 19, 2025

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal Jeff Hauser

Press Release Congressional Oversight Independent Agencies

The Revolving Door Project Condemns Trump’s Illegal Takeover Of Independent Agencies

In response to President Trump’s lawless actions, Executive Director of The Revolving Door Project, Jeff Hauser and Senior Researcher Toni Aguilar Rosenthal released the following statement:

February 17, 2025

Kenny Stancil

Interview Congressional Oversight DOGE Elon Musk Trump 2.0

PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil on Democrats' Muddled, Painful Response to Trump-Musk Coup

RDP senior researcher Kenny Stancil spoke with Counterpoint’s Scott Harris about his article, “Where Is the Democratic Opposition?”, and the need to organize an effective and aggressive national Trump opposition movement both inside the Democratic Party and across civil society.

February 05, 2025

Julian Scoffield

Newsletter Congressional Oversight Consumer Protection Executive Branch Scott Bessent Treasury Department Trump 2.0

Trump Taps Corporate Fox to Guard an Accountability Henhouse

Scott Bessent’s appointment to CFPB acting director will undermine the agency’s mission.

February 03, 2025

Jeff Hauser Kenny Stancil

Press Release Congressional Oversight Executive Branch Scott Bessent Treasury Department Trump 2.0

RELEASE: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Support for Elon Musk Warrants Impeachment

Bessent’s decision to hand the unelected Musk and his covert, unaccountable DOGE wrecking crew the keys to the federal money spigot is a blatant attack on democracy that will harm working people.

February 03, 2025

Henry Burke

Blog Post 2024 Election/Transition Congressional Oversight Ethics in Government Revolving Door Tech Trump 2.0

One Of The 20-Somethings Running The Government Is Beholden To Sam Altman’s OpenAI

Elon Musk isn’t the only billionaire puppetting the federal government. Sam Altman also has staff in his pocket. All it cost was $100,000

January 30, 2025

Press Release Congressional Oversight Independent Agencies

Revolving Door Project Condemns Trump Administration’s Illegal Firings, Implores Congress To Conduct Oversight

Donald Trump has now illegally fired multiple Democratic members of independent agency boards, including Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board and Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burrows from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, years before their actual term expiry dates. In so doing, Trump has demonstrated yet again, an abject disregard for the basic rule of law, as well as an apparent willingness to engage in authoritarian-esque hostile takeovers of any part of the government able to provide a check to his power.

January 30, 2025

Kenny Stancil

Newsletter Congressional Oversight Executive Branch Trump 2.0

Where Is the Democratic Opposition?

Trump is rapidly imposing his fascist agenda with barely a whimper of protest from the Democratic Party.

January 13, 2025

Jeff Hauser

Press Release 2024 Election/Transition Congressional Oversight Governance

The Revolving Door Project Condemns Democrats’ Cowardice In The Face Of Trump’s Nominees

Rather than fight for the best interests of the American public, Senate Democrats have been eager to accede to the policies, culture wars and nominees of Donald Trump. This capitulation will not help the party or its base, it will simply embolden the felon soon to be in the White House

December 23, 2024 | The American Prospect

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Op-Ed Congressional Oversight Department of Veterans Affairs

The VA's Self-Made Dialysis Disaster

Former Representative Doug Collins is Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a federal agency that oversees the administration of health care to over 9.1 million veterans. Collins, notably, is a veteran himself, but has seemingly little background on veterans issues. His early pronouncements are superficially bland, promising to “root out corruption, and ensure every veteran receives the benefits they’ve earned,” among other things.