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January 20, 2026
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RELEASE: Catalog Of DOGE’s Disastrous Effects Reveals Radically Weakened U.S.
The Revolving Door Project released a report cataloging the cataclysmic impact of Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” today. The report marks the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump creating the task force, which devastated the federal civil service and paved the way for Trump’s unprecedented imperial presidency.
January 09, 2026 | The American Prospect
The Trump Regime Is Making Disasters Worse
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sat atop millions of dollars in flood prevention grants while the West Coast was being inundated. Now she’s slashing FEMA disaster response staff.
January 06, 2026
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Timeline: Trump's Attacks on Disaster Preparedness and Response
The Trump administration has been criminally negligent when it comes to disaster mitigation and response. Check out our interactive timelines documenting the White House’s pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty.
December 05, 2025 | The American Prospect
Trump’s Katrina Is Coming
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
October 28, 2025
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RELEASE: Hurricane Melissa Is a Reminder That the Trump Administration Is Putting U.S. Residents at Risk of Catastrophic Harm
Melissa serves as a reminder that Americans will face huge—and largely avoidable—risks if and when the game of dice comes up against us.
October 24, 2025 | The Lever
Amid The Shutdown, Flood Insurance Profiteers Are Riding The Wave
Private insurers like Neptune Insurance Holdings are cashing in on the shutdown and pushing to privatize the National Flood Insurance Program, despite risks to homeowners.
October 16, 2025 | The American Prospect
The Republican Plot to Destroy Education Research
Elon Musk and the Trump administration have gutted the Institute of Education Science.
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.
September 10, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
A Portal into Pandemonium
Years ago, during the first Trump administration, our organization led a Swamp Tour of DC, taking a bus around the city and describing how various swamp monsters earned their spot on a tour of DC’s most corrupt and self-serving political operatives. Today, as our Jeff Hauser and Timi Iwayemi recently wrote in The American Prospect, the swamp runneth over: we are living through by far the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history.
September 05, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Weeks 32-33: An Administration Full of Grifters and Grim Reapers
The Trump White House is increasing our risk of premature death while helping its wealthy allies get richer quicker.
August 29, 2025
Trump's Homicidal Hurricane Policy
This report summarizes how the Trump administration’s attacks on NOAA and FEMA are putting millions of Americans in mortal danger this hurricane season and beyond.
August 29, 2025
Will Democrats Have the Guts to Blame Hurricane Deaths on Trump?
Republicans will continue to put Americans in harm’s way unless Democrats make them pay a political price for unleashing needless suffering.
August 13, 2025 | Jacobin
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Heat Kills. Trump Has Ensured There Will Be More Victims
We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under rising temperatures.
July 28, 2025 | The American Prospect
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Elon Musk's Secret Army of Progressive Lobbyists
Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?
July 16, 2025
Who’s To Blame For Texas’ Abysmal Flood Response?
The Trump administration is trying to sidestep questions of blame, but its finger prints are all over Texas’ awful flood response.