New disclosures from acting officials Brian Boynton and Elizabeth Prelogar show a mountain of big-business clients.
Eleanor Eagan
Eleanor Eagan is a senior fellow at the Revolving Door Project, where she was previously a research director.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Janet Yellen’s Blind Spot on Regulation
The Treasury secretary has made a number of concerning statements and failed to take action on a number of regulatory challenges.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Toward a Conflict-of-Interest-Free West Wing
Incomplete disclosures from Biden’s staff raise as many questions as they answer.
Posted inPolitics
The Trump Holdovers Biden Still Needs to Fire
If President Biden wants to keep making progress, he’s going to have to remove these officials.
Posted inPolitics
Why Recent American Governments Have Fumbled Crises
While our population has doubled in the past 70 years, the number of federal employees hasn’t increased (in case you wonder why our pandemic response has lagged).
Posted inCabinet Watch
The Chopra Gambit
The nominee for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director used his platform as a minority-party commissioner to build a profile. Democrats should do this more often.
Posted inPolitics
Mitch McConnell’s Sudden Interest in Independent Agencies
It shows that he knows Biden will be president, and that he has to do what’s necessary to damage his effectiveness.
Posted inPolitics
Joe Biden Must Not Look for Unity in Mitch McConnell’s Obstruction
A case study of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which has had no members on it for years, shows McConnell’s commitment to breaking government. Biden has options to counteract that.
Posted inPolitics
Donna Shalala Encapsulated Pelosi’s Embrace of Passivity as a Strategy
The Florida congresswoman who lost her re-election battle did nothing to oversee or challenge the Trump administration.
Posted inPolitics
Note to Biden: A President Can Do a Lot Even Without the Senate
What Trump has done inside the administrative state has been more critical than his public persona.