Nearly a dozen companies that sponsored Duffy’s personal travel have significant business before his agency.
Revolving Door Project
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Third Way or the Highway
The centrist outfit’s latest foray into the culture wars isn’t about a streamer—it’s about entrenching oligarch control of influence and electoral infrastructure.
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Russell Vought’s Proposed Overhaul of Performance Reviews
The OMB director is trying to make it easier to fire federal workers while exempting political appointees.
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Trump’s NLRB Doesn’t Want to Investigate Worker Complaints
The agency tasked with protecting workers is making it harder for them to submit complaints and letting employers break the law.
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Khan vs. Cutter: A Tale of Two Careers
It was the age of corruption, and maybe, it was also the age of integrity.
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Dispatches From Trump’s War on Information
Inside the administration’s mishandling of economic data and erosion of trust in federal statistics
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Centrists: Better Things Aren’t Possible
Third Way’s strategy session for Democratic moderates lacked any vision other than a hatred for progressives.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Trump’s Fed Regulators Rewrite the History of the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
Before every financial crisis, there is a concerted effort to argue that this time is different.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Doug Burgum, the Regime Toady of Our Time
Dashing the hopes of establishment Democrats, Trump’s interior secretary and ‘energy czar’ has adopted his boss’s excesses as his own.
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DOGE Lives On Through Russell Vought
Trump’s White House OMB director has quietly institutionalized the government demolition agenda set in motion by Elon Musk’s wrecking crew.