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April 02, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownExecutive BranchGovernment Capacity

Polluters Get A Presidential Exemption From The Law

Are you a highly polluting industrial facility? Maybe a coal-fired power plant, or a coke oven, or a chemical manufacturer, or a commercial sterilizer? Do your neighbors complain about the eye-watering, throat-choking clouds that billow from your stacks? Are you tired of being the bad guy just because your operations emit arsenic, ethylene oxide, mercury, and lead into the air and water, which can cause cancer, brain defects, and other illnesses? Well, President Trump has got your back.

March 27, 2025

Blog Post BigLawEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchTrump 2.0

Obeying in Advance: Who's Capitulating to the Trump Administration’s Pressure Campaign?

On March 21, BigLaw firm Paul Weiss struck a deal with the Trump administration in exchange for an executive order targeting them to be lifted. This capitulation to Trump undermines the rule of law and will invite future authoritarian moves by the administration. As RDP’s Henry Burke wrote, “Appeasement will only lead to certain destruction.”

March 27, 2025

Timi Iwayemi

Press Release DOGEExecutive BranchTrump 2.0

Release: Resources for Tracking Trump Admin from Revolving Door Project

Here at the Revolving Door Project, we believe it’s critical to keep track of the myriad ways in which the Trumpian approach to governance will materially affect people’s lives. That’s why we have developed resources, which we will be updating continuously, to ensure interested parties can make sense of the breadth of Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution. 

March 19, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter Ethics in GovernmentExecutive BranchGovernanceJudiciaryTrump 2.0

Trump Officials Are Openly Defying Judges’ Orders

“We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think.” 

These were the words of Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan after the Trump administration violated multiple court orders and deported people without due process. Are we in a constitutional crisis yet? (Yes, and this is not the first time Trump officials have refused to obey the courts; we are tracking these violations here.)

March 07, 2025

Hannah Story Brown

Blog Post Climate and EnvironmentExecutive BranchGovernment Capacity

Trump’s Attacks on Weather and Climate Science Put Us All In Danger

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the backbone of climate and weather research and information in the United States. Its annual budget is under $7 billion, and the value of the weather information that it shares with the public is estimated to be over $100 billion annually. That means the American taxpayer gets a more than fourteen-fold return on investment. (Now that’s government efficiency, contrary to the claims of DOGE and its sympathizers about eliminating government bloat.)