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April 08, 2025

Blog Post Executive Branch Steve Witkoff Trump 2.0

Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Steve Witkoff

Trump Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is a major Trump donor, real-estate mogul, and crypto scam artist.

April 08, 2025

Blog Post Chris Wright Executive Branch Trump 2.0

Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Chris Wright

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. Net worth: $170 million

April 07, 2025

Jacob Plaza

Blog Post Governance Government Capacity

Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

IRS understaffing could undermine tax collection, audits, and public service.

April 07, 2025

Jacob Plaza

Blog Post Climate and Environment Government Capacity

Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Department of Interior

Department of Interior understaffing has been threatening environmental protection efforts and the health of marginalized communities.

April 04, 2025

Blog Post Artificial Intelligence DOGE Health Immigration

DOGE Agent: Clark Minor

Musk Connection: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Lead Palantir’s platform infrastructure and cloud strategy
DOGE Deployment: Department of Health and Human Services

April 03, 2025

Blog Post Artificial Intelligence Cryptocurrency Department of Homeland Security DOGE Immigration

Musk Connection: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Palantir Technologies, blockchain search engine Elementus, software engineering and finance start up Theorem
DOGE Deployment: Chief Information Officer, Executive Office of the President

March 31, 2025

Blog Post DOGE

DOGE Agent: Christopher Stanley

Musk Connections: SpaceX, Starlink, X (Twitter)

DOGE Deployments: White House, FHFA

March 28, 2025

Henry Burke

Blog Post Abundance Climate and Environment

Silencing Silent Spring

In Abundance and in press, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have made it clear they want to close the book on Rachel Carson’s seminal work.

March 28, 2025

Blog Post DOGE Ethics in Government

DOGE Agent: Steve Davis

Musk Connections: SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), Boring Company

Other Corporate Connections: Board of Advisers, Atlas Society; Former owner, Mr. Yogato; Former owner, Thomas Foolery

DOGE Deployments: “Day-to-day leader.” SSA, GSA

March 28, 2025

Blog Post DOGE

DOGE Agent: Brad Smith

Musk Connections: N/A

Other Corporate Connections: Founder of Russell Street Ventures, Co-founder of Aspire Health, Co-founder of CareBridge, Co-founder of Main Street Health.

DOGE Deployments: HHS

March 27, 2025

Blog Post BigLaw Ethics in Government Executive Branch Trump 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 25, 2025

Kenny Stancil

Blog Post Abundance Climate and Environment DOGE Elon Musk Trump 2.0

Ezra Klein Said What?

Abundance co-author’s word salad about environmental review left us scratching our heads.

March 21, 2025

Emma Marsano

Blog Post Memo Department of Veterans Affairs Trump 2.0

Not Even Veterans Are Exempt From The Trump Firing Line

Over the past couple months, the Trump administration has fired approximately 2500 people at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides lifelong healthcare services and non-healthcare benefits such as disability compensation, home loans and life insurance to veterans. There has been widespread outrage among veterans in response to the administration’s actions thus far, but Trump and VA Secretary Doug Collins remain set on tightening the screws.