About the Revolving Door Project
The Revolving Door Project was created to scrutinize executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement. In recent years our work has expanded to include monitoring how corporate and billionaire influence distorts coverage of economic issues in the media, the interpretation of law in our courts, and policymaking by various state constitutional officers.
Many of the deep rules that govern our rigged economy are written within the executive branch and out of sight of civil society. The quality of their enforcement is also dependent on the leadership agenda at federal agencies. From influential offices like the Office of Management and Budget, to agencies with important consumer protection mandates like the Federal Trade Commission; from the powerful litigators at the Justice Department to the inspectors and investigators responsible for ensuring the health and safety of our food, goods, transportation, and environment, executive branch personnel play a significant role in structuring our economic system.
If we want the government to stand up against powerful interests in order to protect the public interest, we need the right people wielding the levers of power, and we need the public to understand how power is wielded.
In addition to our Watchdog Weekly newsletter, coming to your inbox most Wednesdays, we also publish Corruption Calendar documenting the Trump administration’s favor machine and its material consequences for everyday Americans, and Hackwatch, which calls out the high-profile pundits carrying water for Corporate America.
Contact
The Revolving Door Project exists to serve as a resource. Please do not hesitate to email us at info@therevolvingdoorproject.org with any questions.
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