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August 26, 2025
Supreme Court, Jay Powell, & Media Enabled Trump’s Attack on Lisa Cook
Institutions have allowed Trump to attack the Federal Reserve’s Independence. They must stand up for Lisa Cook.
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.
August 07, 2025
Trump’s EPA Just Moved to Shred the Legal Foundation of U.S. Climate Policy
Trump’s most brazen act of climate sabotage yet: a proposed repeal of the 2009 “endangerment finding.”
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 06, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week 20: Trump Partners With Palantir To Build A Real World Panopticon
This week has put on full display the Trump administration’s embrace of the white collar criminals, grifters, harmful extractive industries, and fascist tech bros jointly wreaking havoc on our social institutions and the environment.
June 04, 2025
Personnel is Policy: The Faces Behind Trump 2.0’s Measles Mismanagement
For the first time in six years, confirmed measles cases in the United States have surged past 1,000, a grim milestone that has come to define Trump governance.
May 23, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 18: Trump’s Independent Agency Power Grab
This week the Trump administration continued to dedicate itself to tearing down the safeguards that protect Americans from things like dangerous consumer products and predatory sales tactics, all while his officials and donors (often one and the same) enrich themselves.
May 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
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We Can’t Count on Trump’s SEC to Tell Us If He Is Manipulating the Market
The Musk-damaged agency is unlikely to investigate whether Trump and his allies are profiting from advance knowledge about tariff changes or meme coin shenanigans.
April 02, 2025 | The American Prospect
Trump Quietly Decimates a Pivotal Labor Relations Agency
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has been destroyed. It provided free collective-bargaining mediation and saved hundreds of millions of dollars in labor costs.
March 19, 2025
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Tough Questions for Paul Atkins
Senators shouldn’t go easy on Trump’s nominee to lead the SEC. Here are some things they ought to ask him about.
March 12, 2025
Wall Street Bankers Salivate Over Postal Privatization
Corporate profiteers want to ransack an institution older than America itself.
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.
March 06, 2025
Former Schumer Staffer Spins Crypto Revolving Door
Jen Brown, Senator Chuck Schumer’s former Banking Counsel, joins the cryptocurrency investment firm Paradigm in a clear conflict of interest.
February 19, 2025
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: