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July 01, 2026

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Press Release Climate and EnvironmentEthics in GovernmentExecutive Branch

Draining National Parks to Fill the Reflecting Pool: The Trump Administration Is Redirecting Millions From National Treasures To DC Vanity Projects 

WASHINGTON — Today the Revolving Door Project released a report examining the National Park Service’s distribution of awards out of its Recreational Fee account so far in 2025-2026 as compared to 2023-2024. 

Using publicly accessible databases, found a startling 1673.23 percent increase in spending out of the rec fee account to fund projects in D.C., while spending to the nation’s top-ten most visited fee-collecting National Parks dropped by 75.52 percent. 

And, so far during 2025-2026 we found that D.C.-based contracting spending is far outpacing spending at the nation’s top 10-most visited fee-collecting parks AND our top 10-most visited non-fee collecting parks combined.

July 01, 2026

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Report Climate and EnvironmentEthics in Government

Draining National Parks to Fill the Reflecting Pool

The National Park Service (NPS) is charged with stewarding what author and environmentalist Wallace Stegner called America’s “best idea.” 

From the striking expanse of the Chihuahuan Desert, partially contained in Big Bend National Park, to the towering stone walls of Yosemite, the United States government has the privilege of caring for some of the most overwhelmingly beautiful vistas in the world. 

For more than 100 years, recreational fees have been collected at a subsect of our National Parks to explicitly and specifically support the management and responsible stewardship of these lands on behalf of present and future generations.

June 24, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter AbundanceClimate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownEducationEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchJudiciaryTech

Elite Corruption, From Silicon Valley to the Supreme Court

Welcome back to Watchdog Weekly. We’ve been busy so far this hurricane season, tracking the literal and metaphorical storms gathering on the horizon as elite immunity spreads its shadow over the American landscape. Here are some of the projects we’ve been working on lately:

June 11, 2026 | Public Citizen

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal Alan Zibel

Press Release Ethics in GovernmentTrump Watch

Trump’s MAGA 250: Administration Awards More than $100 Million in Federal Contracts to Politicized Network 

The Trump administration has awarded nearly $103 million in federal contracts and grants for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations to a network of politicized entities under the control of Trump administration officials and political allies, according to a new report released today by Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project.

May 28, 2026

Jeff Hauser

Press Release Ethics in GovernmentIRSSupreme CourtTreasury Department

RDP Calls on Justice Alito To Recuse From Trump Treasury Proceedings

On Thursday, NOTUS reported that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s son Phillip Alito has been working as a political appointee in the office of the Treasury Department’s general counsel since early 2025. During that time, Justice Alito failed to recuse from Learning Resources, Inc. et al v. Trump et al, a major case in which the Treasury Department was a named party.

May 15, 2026

Letter Climate and EnvironmentEthics in GovernmentSupreme Court

Coalition Sends Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Leadership Urging Investigation of Justice Alito’s Conflicted Interests and Irregular Recusals in Upcoming Case

On Tuesday, May 12, a coalition of thirty organizations including the Revolving Door Project sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leadership urging the investigation of Justice Alito’s conflicted interests and irregular recusal habits in the upcoming case Suncor v. Boulder and parallel state climate deception lawsuits. The letter can be read in full here.

May 11, 2026

Memo Anti-MonopolyClimate and EnvironmentDepartment of JusticeEthics in GovernmentGovernment CapacityImmigrationRevolving Door

Pam Bondi’s Perversion of Justice

On April 2, 2026, President Trump fired Pam Bondi as Attorney General. As Bondi transitions to an ambiguous private sector role, she leaves behind an ignoble legacy characterized by her gross incompetence, the destruction of the agency’s capacity and credibility, and her slavish pursuit of Trump’s political agenda and corporate America’s interest.

May 08, 2026

Henry Burke

Press Release Department of TransportationEthics in GovernmentExecutive Branch

Sean Duffy Vacations Amidst Airline Disasters

Over the past seven months, there have been 3 commercial airline crashes resulting in 11 deaths, along with numerous near-misses and deadly small plane crashes. Rather than addressing the ongoing deterioration of America’s transportation infrastructure, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has been on vacation and filming a reality TV show with his family, all seemingly paid for by the very companies he should be regulating.