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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bad news for Exxon, and a win for the power of public pressure calling out the blatant corruption of the Roberts Court: Justice Alito is stepping down from further participating in Suncor v. Boulder, a week before oral arguments. We've been calling for his recusal from this case for YEARS: 🧵

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In response to Trump’s 'AI Force' post, the CEO of the Chamber of Progress says the admin must be ‘missing’ billionaire investor David Sack’s leadership in the White House. What did that so-called leadership consist of?

Tech industry scratches its head over Trump 'AI Force' proposal

Tech sector representatives say they view Trump’s announcement as a response to growing public concern over AI’s risks.

“I think that he clearly feels pressure to say something, but he’s torn because he’s just spent the last few days saying that the whole thing is a hoax,” Adam Kovacevich, CEO of the progressive tech industry coalition Chamber of Progress, said of Trump and his prior dismissal of AI doomsday scenarios

Since the departure of David Sacks, who stepped down as the Trump administration’s previous AI czar earlier this year, the White House has been “making up AI policy as it goes,” Kovacevich added. “I think it’s clear they’ve really missed the presence of an organized leader like David Sacks was.”

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: As AI companies provoke intense scrutiny, former Obama White House official Jay Carney has joined an effort to “rebuild bonds” between Democrats and the AI industry. Dem operatives are joining the AI industry in droves – we’ve tracked over 100 former Biden officials who made similar moves.

Jay Carney’s new job: Rebuild tech’s bridge to Democrats

Jay Carney is heading back to Silicon Valley’s political trenches. Carney, the former Obama press secretary who left Airbnb this summer, has joined SV Angel, Ron Conway’s early-stage venture capital firm, to run a new initiative called Project Blueprint.

Its purpose is to rebuild bonds between leaders in the artificial intelligence sector and Democrats who are demanding new rules to regulate the technology.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trump also rejected four appeals from Democratic governors whose constituents had been waiting more than 20 weeks for federal assistance to deal with extensive snowstorm damage. prospect.org/2026/07/21/f... NY Gov. Hochul slammed Trump: www.governor.ny.gov/news/stateme...

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trump continues to turn federal disaster aid into a political weapon. This week, he boasted on Truth Social about approving multiple requests—focusing on states w/ Republican officials, competitive midterm candidates, and/or pro-Trump voting histories. therevolvingdoorproject.org/trump-disast...

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

WATCHDOG WEEKLY This summer has put 2026 on track to be one of the worst years of foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history. We can thank the Trump administration and Big Agriculture for that.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Natural Allies' goal is to convince Democrats that methane gas, a climate super-pollutant, belongs in the same camp as renewables, not other fossil fuels like coal and oil. Hochul might be convinced, but every fight over AI data centers powered by polluting gas turbines proves otherwise.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Chamber of Progress CEO Adam Kovacevich claimed corporate oversight has "no clear partisan atmospheric benefit." But dragging executives from corporations like Taylor Farms (or the tech firms responsible for the AI data center buildout) before Congress is very good politics.

A hearing on the details of food safety regulations and inspection and tracing capacity, while important, isn’t exactly riveting to the general public. Forcing the CEO of Taylor Farms and other corporate executives to testify about their consolidation strategies, workplace safety record, and efforts to influence the Trump administration amid a rampant diarrhea outbreak, however, would be more likely to garner widespread coverage and attention. Especially if people forced to suffer from explosive diarrhea are given a chance to sit at the witness table next to the corporate executive who brought about their suffering—would such a confrontation violate norms, be a bit awkward for a rich person, expose real insight into a public policy issue that a corporation wants to flush away from the public’s attention, and generate real clickable attention? All of the above!

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Through investigations, enforcement actions, and lawsuits, public officials can help liberate useful information about worsening hazards and make it available to planners and others involved in reducing disaster risk at all levels of society.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What OK's lawsuits against Allstate & State Farm reveal is two-fold: 1) Powerful insurance companies are impeding the ability of households to recover from extreme weather events; 2) They are obscuring the true scale of mounting climate risks and thus the magnitude of adaptation that's necessary.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The scope of abuses alleged in Oklahoma's lawsuits against Allstate and State Farm exemplifies the need for robust regulatory and enforcement action throughout the United States. The suits provide a clear opening for other public officials to crack down on Big Insurance.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Drummond recently filed lawsuits accusing Allstate and State Farm of unjustly denying or underpaying wind and hail-related claims. The AG is seeking to halt and dismantle both firms' alleged payout minimization schemes and compel the "disgorgement of illicit profits."

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Third Way has said they are "preparing for the next war" against progressives. What you need to understand is why. Third Way's corporate-stacked board of directors hates small donors holding sway over elections. This is a "war" to reassert big donor control over elections

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

WATCHDOG WEEKLY The ongoing cyclospora outbreak won't be solved by another round of questions for a Biden-era retiree. But Republicans don't want solutions; only to shift blame for—and from—an epidemic of their own making.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

According to the NTSB's timeline of events, air traffic control asked the military to pause its jammers, but the flight was already significantly disrupted by the time GPS was working again. web.ntsb.gov/investigatio...

At 0001:17 the ARTCC controller telephoned their operations supervisor and requested [the military] to stop jamming.

About 0005 the ARTCC operations supervisor contacted [the military] to stop jamming and at 0007:34 ADS-B data recording returned to 2-3 second intervals.

At 0008:06, while maintaining the northwest heading and about 31 mi northeast of SRR, the flight crew reported they had “a visual on Ruidoso,” but their radio transmission was stepped on by other radio traffic. The flight crew again reported they “[have] a visual on Ruidoso” at 0008:30 and that they could “go visual.” The ARTCC controller subsequently cleared the flight to SRR, cleared the flight for a visual approach, and informed them they could cancel IFR in the air above 9,000 ft msl or they could cancel their clearance via the flight service station after landing. The flight crew acknowledged the clearance and responded that they would cancel IFR “in just a couple of minutes.” There were no additional radio transmissions received from the flight crew. The airplane then began a left turn southwest toward SRR. The Capitan Mountains, extending to 10,201 ft, were located about 14 miles northeast of SRR between the airplane and the airport.

About 0010, the ARTCC operations supervisor informed [the military] that the airplane was on a visual approach and that they could resume jamming. At 0010:27 ADS-B again began collecting data at about one-minute intervals.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

While we're still awaiting the NTSB's final report, it's clear that the military's GPS jamming significantly impacted the safety of several flights, ultimately resulting in four deaths. American civilians are paying the price for the military's testing of this technology.

In retrospect, tragedy might have been avoided if Albuquerque air traffic control had been able to pay closer attention to the young pilots in the King Air. But tonight they were busy. Three other aircraft also reported that they’d lost their GPS and needed help. One was struggling to get a bearing on a radio beacon.

While ATC helped other planes, the King Air continued north. By 12:08 am, they had overshot the landing pattern by 10 miles.

But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

These former officials joined AI-focused companies from the White House and from other key departments including Defense, State and Commerce.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We found many Biden officials are working for some of the most prominent companies in the AI industry, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

From cyclosporiasis, to the weaponization of federal funds, to climate change-induced wildfires, to ICE killings, Trump is at the center of it all. We've been connecting these dots for a long time. The media, elected officials, and pundits with massive platforms should too.

But while Silver’s assessment is not correct, it does indicate an ongoing problem with both our media and our politicians: the most powerful elected officials and pundits that oppose the administration regularly fail to connect Trump to the plethora of harms he is actively causing. At the start of Trump 2.0, we were inundated with stories of the negative repercussions of Trump’s executive orders and DOGE’s rampage. But after Musk departed and OMB Director Russell Vought took over the kneecapping of federal agencies, many credulous people stopped paying close attention as the fanfare of DOGE waned, despite the continued material consequences for regular people.

This does not mean, as Silver claims, that American politics no longer revolves around Trump. Rather, it says more about Silver’s media diet and his personal experience living under Trump.

There are countless other stories where Trump is—or should be—the central villain that are neither boring nor dumb, but in fact have severe consequences for peoples’ health, safety, and economic well being. This is why RDP created our Trump Watch page with over two dozen trackers of the administration’s harms across issue areas. It’s why we’ve worked with groups like Public Citizen to document the corruption of Freedom 250 and the fossil fuel revolvers Trump has enabled to destroy both our environment and clean energy sector.

It is true, however, that both the media and the establishment ought to do a better job in framing these stories in a way that highlights Trump and his cronies’ direct culpability in causing the pain people are currently feeling. Indeed, coverage of the wildfires currently raging across the globe often fails to forefront the role of climate change and fossil fuel consumption that Trump and his lackeys are gleefully accelerating.

At the risk of being accused of having an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, it’s worth running through a few of the many stories where Trump is the central figure. If Silver is reading this, perhaps he can elevate these stories to his readers. After all, with three million twitter followers and 316,000 subscribers to his Silver Bulletin, Nate actually has some sway over who and what is in the news.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Vought isn't the only one—Energy Secretary Chris Wright testified to Congress that "no decisions were made on politics" calling the allegations "bullshit." The Energy Department's own filing now shows he lied to Congress.

The filings also appeared to undermine the congressional testimony of Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who spoke about the cancellations in a June House hearing: “No decisions were made on politics.”

The Energy Department previously conceded in two other cases that politics had been a “primary reason” for the cancellations. In those cases, Amit P. Mehta, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, eventually ruled that the agency had improperly canceled more than a dozen grants. But the latest concession is far more detailed and sweeping, and it sparked new anger on Capitol Hill.

Many of the canceled awards, most of them in Democratic-led states, remain in limbo. A federal judge sided with clean energy groups that argued the Trump administration acted punitively in canceling the grants. During the proceedings, government lawyers acknowledged that the location of award recipients influenced which projects were selected for review.

Rep. Gabe Amo (D-R.I.) argued the ruling made clear the cancellations were partisan and unconstitutional and asked Wright when the funding would be restored.

Wright maintained the decisions were not politically motivated.

“What you’re referring to is a choice of announcements of some of the awards, not made by our department,” Wright said. “No decisions were made on politics. I keep hearing that charge. It’s bullshit. We’re going to say it a million times.”

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In October 2025, Russell Vought unilaterally cancelled 284 grants. All but one grant recipient were in states that voted for Kamala Harris. Vought regularly denies that grant decisions and aid disbursements are politicized, but the administration has now admitted it.

accepts that neither the inclusion of the ARCHES grant nor any other grants in the
October notice tranche was based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction, or
performance-based factor.
9. DOE accepts that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely
on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state, i.e., whether the recipient’s location
and/or place of performance was in a Blue State or a non-Blue State. DOE will not
contend that it looked beyond the prime grantee(s) to consider the political identity or
geographic distribution of downstream beneficiaries of the grant funds.
10. DOE accepts that the differential treatment resulting in the October 2025 termination of
Blue State grants and the non-termination of non-Blue State grants was not based on a
rational connection between the recipient’s location and/or place of performance and
DOE’s past or current agency priorities.

After reviewing its spending, the Energy Department last fall created a list that recommended canceling more than 600 grants awarded by the Biden administration for a wide range of novel energy projects. That list included funding for projects in states represented by both Republicans and Democrats.

But in October, the White House budget office, led by Russell T. Vought, terminated only 284 of those grants. In a social media post announcing the news, Mr. Vought pointed to the motivations: “Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda is being canceled,” he said.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

OSHA, meanwhile, is still raising awareness about the dangers importance of fall prevention. Just weeks after issuing the proposed rule, OSHA celebrated DOL's National Safety Stand-Down and highlighted the high number of fall deaths. "These deaths are preventable," stressed OSHA.

While workers and industry await OSHA’s final rulemaking, the agency has continued to stress the dangers of workplace falls. From May 4 to 8, just one month after issuing the proposed rule, OSHA celebrated the Department of Labor’s National Safety Stand-Down, a yearly event to raise awareness about fall hazards and the importance of fall prevention in the construction industry. It emphasized, as noted above, that falls are consistently the leading cause of death for the industry.

“Those deaths were preventable,” the page reads in bolded font.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The most surprising critic is 3M, the manufacturing conglomerate and member of the ACC. 3M said the petition used "significantly overstated" estimates that have “no reasonable relationship to actual market pricing and should not be accorded significant weight in OSHA’s rulemaking analysis.”

But OSHA also received an opposing comment from 3M, the manufacturing conglomerate whose portfolio includes fall protection equipment. 3M is a member of the American Chemistry Council, which filed the initial petition that prompted OSHA’s rulemaking. In their comment, 3M reiterated the safety concerns highlighted by other groups, while also raising issues with OSHA’s estimated savings from deadline removal.

OSHA, citing data from the industry groups’ petition, estimated $3.6 billion in savings for the petrochemical industry, as compliance costs could reach $55,000 per ladder. 3M, however, called the estimate “significantly overstated,” saying the market data indicates compliance costs to be around $1,000 to $3,000 per ladder. The conglomerate added that the petitioners’ estimate has “no reasonable relationship to actual market pricing and should not be accorded significant weight in OSHA’s rulemaking analysis.”

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Safety professionals also criticized OSHA for ignoring decades of research on ladder cages compared to safety systems. “In the chance occurrence that a cage did arrest a fall by a worker getting caught by the cage, serious injury or death could occur.”

“Fixed ladders remain a considerable exposure for the worker,” ASSP wrote, citing research from the U.K.’s HSE. While ASSP acknowledges that better data is needed to differentiate between fall injuries and fatalities on different types of ladders, the standard-setter explicitly rejects that ladder cages are a viable fall protection structure. “Peer-reviewed and government-commissioned research, consistently detail the hazards associated with ladder cages, confirm that they do not provide equivalent protection to fall arrest ladder safety systems, and confirm that fall arrest ladder safety systems can safely arrest falls … In the chance occurrence that a cage did arrest a fall by a worker getting caught by the cage, serious injury or death could occur.”

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In fact, the USW believes the rule could have saved the life of David Roy, a USW member who died after having a heart attack and falling from a ladder at a DOW Chemical Plant in 2014. DOW is a member of the American Chemical Council, one of the groups pushing for the roll back.

On April 14, 2011, United Steelworkers (USW) member David Roy was working at a Dow Chemical plant in Midland, Michigan. Roy, a 47-year-old father of two, was on a caged ladder on a distillation column when he suffered a heart attack. He fell backwards off the ladder, plummeted roughly 30 feet, and died from a combination of the heart attack and blunt force trauma. Following his death, Dow released a statement saying the accident was a reminder of “how fragile life is.”

Fifteen years later, the American Chemistry Council (ACC), of which Dow Chemical is a member, is pressuring the Trump administration to repeal an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule that the USW believes could have saved David Roy’s life—a reminder of how fragile the rules that keep us safe are in the face of corporate pressure.

“By eliminating the deadline, OSHA is effectively telling employers that an outdated cage, which offers zero fall arrest capability, is acceptable to let their employees fall to their deaths and suffer life-altering injuries,” wrote the United Steelworkers (USW), which represents 850,000 workers, including employees of companies that are part of the petitioning trade associations.

The USW’s comment alludes to David Roy as an example of the dangers of climbing without a personal fall arrest or ladder safety system. “It is our belief that a personal fall arrest systems or ladder safety systems could have saved this member’s life by allowing him to be rescued, and life-saving measures provided to change the outcome of this tragic loss of life,” they wrote.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“It’s a step backward for protecting workers from falls,” said Travis Parsons of LIUNA's health and safety fund. "The administration is putting business interests in front of worker safety.” The USW, AFSCME, and others echoed this sentiment in public comments.

“It’s a step backward for protecting workers from falls,” said Travis Parsons, the director of occupational safety and health at the Laborers’ Health and Safety Fund of North America, which works to improve conditions for Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) members. “The administration is putting business interests in front of worker safety.”

Other labor groups, including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART), and contractor trade associations also submitted comments opposing the proposed deadline removal.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In July 2025, three trade groups urged OSHA to remove the deadline, claiming it would cost the industry over $3 billion and have little impact on safety. OSHA took their word for it, saying removal of the compliance deadline is "not likely to result in a meaningful increase in risk to workers.”

In July 2025, a petition from the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and the American Petroleum Institute (API)—three trade associations representing oil, gas, and chemical manufacturing behemoths—urged OSHA to remove the 2036 compliance deadline for the 2016 Walking-Working Surfaces Rule. The petition claims ladder safety and personal fall arrest systems “[have] the real potential to make employees less safe” and cites over $3 billion in compliance costs for the petroleum refining industry.

In April 2026, OSHA took the first step to grant the industry’s request. The agency issued a proposed rule removing the 2036 deadline, while also seeking comment on repealing or revising the requirement for new ladders to be equipped with personal fall arrests, leaving the door open for employers to continue to rely on cages. In its explanation of the proposal, OSHA determined that the rule “is not likely to result in a meaningful increase in risk to workers.”

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Falls kill hundreds of workers each year. Ladder cages, the traditional method of fall protection, actually do little to stop deadly falls. In 2016, OSHA instituted a rule to phase out ladder cages, giving employers TWENTY YEARS to equip ladders with ladder safety or fall arrest systems.

As early as 2004, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the United Kingdom’s government agency responsible for workplace safety, found that “caged ladders cannot provide positive fall-arrest.” In layman’s terms, cages do not effectively stop falls. Indeed, HSE found that even if a cage does manage to catch a falling worker, it can “lead to significant if not fatal injury.” Similar conclusions were drawn by Oregon’s Department of Transportation (“falls in cages can be very gruesome … sometimes tearing off body parts”) and the International Safety Equipment Association (“cages should not be used as an individual method of fall protection”), among other safety groups.

The fatal impact of most falls also established an evident need for updated protections. Falls have long been the leading cause of death in the construction industry, and among the largest causes of severe injuries. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which is responsible for tracking data surrounding workplace deaths and injuries, found that between 1992 and 2004, an average of 213 construction workers died annually from workplace falls to a lower level, with nearly 80,000 additional lost workdays resulting from nonfatal falls. If anything, it seems to be getting worse over time, with 389 fall deaths in the industry in 2024.

In 2016, OSHA finalized its Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Protective Equipment rule. The rule, which aimed to enhance fall protections, included a provision requiring employers to equip all fixed ladders that extend more than 24 feet above a lower level with either ladder safety or personal fall arrest systems.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Tillis grills Vought about DOGE's lack of successful savings: "Right now, I'm picking up a lot of bags of...experienced people leaving, scientists leaving NIH, these random--'you were fired; oh I'm sorry you weren't, wrong email address'--all that stuff is amateurish..."

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

WATCH: Vought doesn't know how many people would have had their medical debt wiped from their credit score (answer: 15 million) or how many more mortgages they could have afforded per year (answer: 22k), had he not overturned the CFPB's medical debt rule.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

WATCH Sen. Tina Smith (D-NM) confront Vought about the ramifications of this proposed rule.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In a hearing ostensibly conducting oversight of Vought's destructive tenure at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Republican Senator Jim Banks spends almost his entire time asking about...shipbuilding.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

VAN HOLLEN: You're in favor of getting rid of the CFPB, right? You'd like to get rid of it entirely? VOUGHT: Yes.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

WARNER: You said in your writings that you wanted to traumatize federal workforce...Give yourself a grade on how much trauma you've brought to federal workforce. VOUGHT: I think we've done an incredible job in running the CFPB...We've done an excellent job of running the CFPB.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

WATCH: Warren calls out Vought for dropping a settlement whereby Toyota agreed to pay consumers $50 million for tricking them into buying add-on insurance and warranties that they didn't need and didn't want. Toyota's consumers were reportedly scammed out of $700 to $2,500 each.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Vought starts out with a bizarre defense of overdraft fees. Under his watch, the CFPB terminated a consent order requiring the Navy Federal Credit Union to pay $95 million for surprise overdraft fees. bankingdive.com/news/cfpb-dr... 2/

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

WATCHDOG WEEKLY The public is right to be worried about Cyclospora, but the real parasite threatening American food safety is Russell Vought.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Pressley grilled Vought on the CFPB's roll back of protections for people dealing with medical debt. PRESSLEY: $500 billion. That's how much medical debt American's hold...Give me one reason why companies should be able to harass cancer survivors to collect more than they owe for a medical bill.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In fact, Vought previously said he was "proud" to be "scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism."

@RussVought tweet: I'm proud to work with @williamwolfe
on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism. Both he &
@wokal_distance
are VFs
@amrenewctr
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@ConceptualJames
is there no room for Christians who are also nationalists to be in an anti-woke coalition? My take below

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Vought in 2021: "'Christian Nationalism' is actually a rather benign and useful description..."

Is There Anything Actually Wrong With ‘Christian Nationalism?’ Newsweek op-ed from March 22, 2021 by Russell Vought

This debate is important, though—once stripped of its superimposed liberal scar tissue, "Christian nationalism" is actually a rather benign and useful description for those who believe in both preserving our country's Judeo-Christian heritage and making public policy decisions that are best for this country. The term need not be subjected to such intense scorn due to misunderstanding or slander.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

PRESSLEY: You're a self proclaimed Christian Nationalist. VOUGHT: That's a pejorative. Vought can try to back track and feign offense, but in 2021 he wrote an op-ed titled "Is There Anything Actually Wrong With Christian Nationalism?"

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

TLAIB: Do you think it's just a coincidence that consumer complaints have reached an all time high at the same time that your agency has pulled back enforcement, dropped cases, cut staff, and revoked guidance? VOUGHT: There's a market reason for what is going on...

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Vought says the quiet part out loud about who he's serving at the acting CFPB Director. TLAIB: Who do you work for you? VOUGHT: The President of the United States. TLAIB: NO! You work for the people of the United States.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA) on the lasting impacts of Vought's CFPB tenure: "You're gonna see redlining happen, you're gonna see discrimination, you're gonna see fraud, you're gonna see that businesses got away with a lot...You were there for the businesses...You weren't there for the consumers"

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Audible groans and dismissive laughs can be heard in the room when Vought doubles-down and tells Lynch, "This administration has the highest ethical standards..."

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

WATCH: Rep. Lynch (D-MA): Trump made $1.4b off crypto scams while consumers you are meant to be protecting lost $3.8b. Does none of that warrant an investigation? Vought calls these reports "fake news" and says, "There is nothing we have done that is a conflict of interest."

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Vought suggests he doesn't really believe in CFPB enforcement actions when Pete Sessions (R-TX) asks him about the use of civil penalties. Vought: "The sue and settle authorities that the CFPB has is one of the things I would take a look at if I was in Congress." 6/

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

WATCH: Velásquez: Job loss is more of a risk. Should creditors consider whether an ICE agent who shot an unarmed civilian and who is likely to face criminal charges and lose their job as a factor in determining the ability to repay? Vought squirms as he responds, "Yes..."

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Rep. Nydia Velásquez: Last month, the CFPB issued a statement suggesting creditors consider immigration status as a negative factor in an individual's ability to repay. "Did CFPB consult with creditors before issuing this statement?" Vought: "No..." 5/

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