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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.

The Silicon Valley venture capitalist’s longstanding commitment to extreme right-wing ideology makes it clear that any attempts to ingratiate himself with liberals are just a means of obtaining crypto-friendly legislation.

RDP encourages journalists, activists and groups to monitor who currently leads, and who might soon take over, the government’s top watchdog offices. 

In response to the Trump administration’s reckless appointments of conspiracy theorists and corporate hacks to US Attorney positions across the country, Revolving Door Project (RDP) announced a project to track their appointments. RDP senior researcher, Toni Aguilar Rosenthal released the following statement:

The Revolving Door Project (RDP) is trying to help make sense of DOGE’s chaos by making tangible the harm that the Trump administration is doing. RDP is providing a range of resources for the media and the public. RDP is regularly updating resources that track public health crises and the Trump administration’s defiance of court orders as well as profiles of DOGE personnel.

In response to President Trump’s instruction to government agencies to end collective bargaining rights with federal worker unions, Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser issued the following statement: 

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. 

Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser invites Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, and their ideological counterparts to engage in open debate with him or other progressive voices who are skeptical of their agenda and interested in hashing out their differences, in a venue of their choice. It is far better to have the agenda of the non-Trump majority determined by a free-flowing debate rather than settled by the preexisting media power of various figures.

In response to President Trump’s decision to attempt to fire the Federal Trade Commission’s Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Revolving Door Project Founder and Executive Director Jeff Hauser issued the following statement.

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: 

The billionaire’s disregard of federal laws and constitutional powers did not arise out of nowhere when he began his work at “DOGE.” It is just the logical outgrowth of a career spent flouting rules and regulations without consequence. 

DOGE is merely memeified Project 2025. And President Trump was repeatedly explicit on the campaign trail – he was not running on Project 2025. So why does Musk claim a mandate?