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July 02, 2025
TRACKER: Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
We are tracking how the Trump administration’s callous policy choices, before and after bouts of extreme weather, exacerbate avoidable suffering and death.
July 02, 2025
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RELEASE: Tracking Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
“It’s only a matter of time before Trump and Musk’s reckless assault on disaster response and preparedness kills people in the United States.”
July 02, 2025
Abundance Praise for Trump Appointees
Abundance supporters were big backers of Trump appointees including Chris Wright, Doug Burgum and Jay Bhattacharya. Now that the Trump administration has (predictably) engaged in blatantly destructive actions, they’re hoping you’ll forget their earlier support of these Trump toadies.
June 26, 2025
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Kelcy Warren
Oil baron Kelcy Warren made a multi-million dollar bet Trump after he got the Dakota Access Pipeline in the last administration. It is clear he will continue to reap the benefits of his relationship with Trump.
June 25, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Chatbot, Are We Cooked?
On Tuesday, as New Yorkers headed to the polls for the primaries—hours before Zohran Mamdani’s joyous triumph over Andrew Cuomo would be apparent—it was 100°F, the outdoor public pools were closed to the public, and my neighbors were barefoot in the spray of a fire hydrant. “Opening fire hydrants without spray caps is illegal, wasteful, and dangerous,” read the 12:34 pm email I received from the city. Also wasteful and dangerous was failing to open the city’s public pools in time for a record-breaking heat dome.
June 24, 2025
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Trump’s War on Public Data
Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.
June 23, 2025
Attacks on Federal Climate Data Will Accelerate a Financial Crisis
The DOGE playbook for climate disasters: Gut federal climate data, let insurers jack up rates, and bury the financial results.
June 13, 2025
Corruption Calendar Week 21: Trump Cuts the Corruption Cops
This week, nothing too unusual happened, which is to say that the Trump administration continued its crusade to further enrich the rich at the expense of everyone else.
June 11, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Is Brett Kavanaugh the new Ezra Klein?
After live-tweeting his fallout with the world’s richest man, the president has been soothing himself with the pageantry of control. Miles of tanks have rolled into D.C. in preparation for Trump’s military parade. ICE agents have raided workplaces and seized thousands of people across the country. Police have targeted journalists, medics, and protestors in Los Angeles with rubber bullets, tear gas, and smoke grenades. Now the latest escalation: the president has deployed Marines to Los Angeles, threatening martial law.
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 30, 2025
DOGE Still Lives, and We Will Continue To Track It
DOGE isn’t going anywhere, according to the Trump administration’s own officials. Russell Vought seems to be the new boss in town, but he and Musk’s visions have been aligned from the start.
May 30, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Week 19: “We Reject Regulators.” Pardon Me?
This week the Trump administration deepened its wildly corrupt and lucrative crypto grift, sought to further enrich wealthy supporters at the direct expense of working households, and continued to pardon white-collar criminals who don the red MAGA cap.
May 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
Elon Musk’s Fake Retreat From DOGE
Despite the billionaire nominally stepping back, his loyalists remain in control of the group.
May 21, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
RDP Work Round Up: Memorial Day Edition
A roundup of recent RDP work on the patent system takeover, bipartisan support for crypto, FAA chaos, and more!
May 14, 2025
Musk’s DOGE Cuts to AmeriCorps Have Triggered a Nationwide Public Service Collapse
The gutting of AmeriCorps is yet another callous move made by Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. AmeriCorps is the national service program that sends full-time volunteers to some of the most vulnerable and underserved communities in the country, reaching where other public or private sector services fall short. In cutting $400 million in AmeriCorps grant funding, nearly a third of the program’s already modest $1.3 billion annual budget, DOGE has displaced over 30,000 volunteers and disrupted more than 1,000 programs. These cuts are already triggering ripple effects in communities across the country, from halted disaster recovery projects to abandoned school programs and shuttered food banks.