Rep. Pocan: Do we know how many DOGE employees are still embedded at other agencies? Kupor: I don't know the answer to that.

OPM Director Scott Kupor: "DOGE has never been disbanded. Certainly the principles that we're all talking about here around efficiency is there." As we've said since Musk's exit from government, the principles of DOGE remain, now carried out in the shadows by OMB Director Russell Vought.

HAPPENING NOW: Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management and former Andreessen Horowitz partner, is testifying before the House Appropriations committee. Kupor claims OPM is taking steps to "increase government efficiency." This couldn't be further from the truth. 🧵

Elon Musk and his chainsaw may be last year's news, but Russell Vought is still ripping holes in the fabric of our society day after day. Vought is leaving people vulnerable to preventable suffering and premature death. Help us make him infamous.

Remarkable reporting by E&E News confirms what we've been pointing out: Trump has turned federal disaster assistance into a political weapon. Trump is much more likely to deny or slow-walk disaster aid when a request comes from a Democratic-led state. 🧵⬇️

NEW: Russell Vought turns 50 on Thursday. To "celebrate," we're asking you to share how Trump's OMB director has made life worse for you or others, and how he has made all of us more susceptible to avoidable calamities. Vought is wrecking society in relative anonymity. Help us make him infamous.

"According to the aviation safety reporting system administered by the US space agency Nasa, a pilot using the airport in the summer wrote, 'Please do something,' after air traffic controllers failed to provide appropriate guidance about multiple nearby aircraft."

New: The Trump Administration’s failure to regulate AI companies is taking a toll on America’s children. RDP is tracking instances of how families are being impacted by this inaction and the legal battles being waged against Big Tech.

A little birdie told us that a truly foul, morally bankrupt, repugnant creature name Russell Vought has a birthday soon. Join us in wishing him the birthday karma he is so deserving of! 😌 Hbd (🙄) to the evil bigot who’s aging like raw milk! 🥛🤮

If food safety gets worse, or you get hurt because your workplace is less safe, or you can't get adequate care from the VA, there's a likely villain behind your pain—OMB Director Russell Vought.

One year ago, we warned that DOGE's attacks on federal workers would result in preventable suffering and death. That remains true today even though Elon Musk is no longer the face of Trump's government demolition project. The assault continues to be led, with less fanfare, by Russell Vought. 🧵1/2

Since Dec. 15, FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery has been led by Gregg Phillips, an election denier with no relevant experience. That's one of the ways Trump and Vought have effectively destroyed FEMA (even if there's now less talk of abolishing the agency).

NEW Corruption Calendar - Weeks 60-61: A New Mask for the Trump Administration’s Cruelty. This week, our Aya Dardari and Fletcher Calcagno look into Trump’s new deporter-in-chief, backstabbing in the Live Nation antitrust case, the dissolution of Trump's Library Fund, and more.

Zillow paid off its competitor Redfin to get out of the online rental listing market. Now it’s trying the anti-competitive playbook again, this time with Homes. com and online real estate listings. As reported by @theslingutah.bsky.social:

THREAD: 1/. A new report from the Government Accountability Office reveals troubling levels of incompetence as the Linda McMahon-led Department of Education. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...

The U.S. West is enduring a heatwave (it's still winter). Trump has put more people in danger, as we explained in August. An underrecognized figure in this is Russell Vought. Purging heat experts from the civil service, freezing investments in heat resilience, and jeopardizing energy assistance.

Happy birthday, Russell Vought., we have one wish: no natural disasters this year. Because you wrote the blueprint to gut the agency that responds to them. Enjoy your cake. 🎂 Add your own birthday wishes over the next 9 days. #fema #HappyBirthdayRuss 1/3

NEW: Sen. Andy Kim asked Sen. Markwayne Mullin if he would commit to revoking Kristi Noem’s “disastrous” $100,000 grant approval rule should he be confirmed as DHS Secretary. Mullin replied, “Absolutely… I’m not a micromanager.” Our statement: therevolvingdoorproject.org/mullin-noem-... 🧵⬇️

New for @slate.com: our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social writes that Justice Alito's conflicts of interest go deeper than we knew in an upcoming case. Alito recently broke from precedent and failed to recuse when granting oil companies' petition against Boulder in a long-running climate liability suit...

The DOGE Depos were incredibly revealing: DOGE used ChatGPT to cut grants, discriminated based on race and gender, and used Signal to evade federal records laws. Imagine what we'd learn if a Democratic Congress subpoenaed every member of DOGE, from Elon Musk down, to testify before Congress.

Mark your calendars! OMB Director Russell Vought turns 50 next week. Say Happy Birthday by letting him know how you feel about his time destroying government.

NEW: Dwindling home insurance availability and affordability is a clear manifestation of fossil fuel-driven climate chaos. Today, the Revolving Door Project published two tools to help illuminate aspects of this worsening crisis. 🧵⬇️

DOGE's mission is still being carried out in the shadows by Russell Vought.

Remember how Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 2023? Trump's cronies on the Fed want to make sure you don't.

"Jay Clayton has a very personal interest in seeing the Epstein story as a cabined-off story, rather than the story of interconnected immoral elites." @jeffhauser.bsky.social speaks to @levernews.com about Trump's former SEC chair and current SDNY U.S. Attorney.

What's the deal with Abundance and Big AI? Our Dylan Gyauch-Lewis responds to The Argument's Jerusalem Demsas.

Crypto advocates want you to believe the industry is both an unstoppable challenge to the financial status quo and a fragile upstart that needs special regulatory concessions.

Our Henry Burke reports on Third Way's recent convening, where tens of people gathered to tell Democrats why better things aren't possible.

As @nytimes.com reported, roughly 2.3 million people live within two miles of these facilities, and will face increased risk of cancer because of Trump and Zeldin's determination to give handouts to industrial polluters. We're tracking material harms of weakening environmental protections below ↓

Silicon Valley has one trick they perform over and over again. Claim "innovation" should exempt them from existing rules, and assert that anyone who dares regulate their products threatens to derail technological progress. Unsurprisingly, cryptocurrency loves this playbook.

Due to Noem's $100k grant approval rule, which is still active despite her firing, search-and rescue crews have been forced to work without the aid of a tool that pinpoints the hardest-hit areas. Yet more evidence of how the Trump regime is making disasters worse, a topic we've covered in detail.

When @dylangyauchl.bsky.social wrote about the AI industry's close ties to Abundance for The New Republic, The Argument's Jerusalem Demsas leapt to defend the movement and her tech-backed "magazine" from a supposed attack. This defense is perhaps more revealing than anything we wrote.

🚨 Another whistleblower has come forward about DOGE mishandling of sensitive data. "He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint."

As we have noted before, Doug Burgum's toadying of Trump's most craven policies was entirely predictable. Those who stepped forward to defend him displayed either a bewildering lack of judgement or an outright willingness to provide political cover for the Trump admin.

Henry Burke of @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social just got back from the centrist rally. "Though the affirmative vision for the world may have been lacking, confidence in their diagnosis of the problem was not" prospect.org/2026/03/10/c...

Last week, Third Way held a conference in South Carolina to discuss strategy on how to block the Democratic Party's progressive wing from gaining power come 2028. Our @henryburke.bsky.social tuned in to their conference where they discussed their hatred of the left... and not much else

🚨 Former CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. sounds the alarm on Trump undermining the agency’s independence. “Safety standards that would have saved hundreds of lives per year, every year going forward, have been sabotaged to serve short-term political goals.”

NEW: Tomorrow marks three years since Silicon Valley Bank's failure. Despite the passage of time, accountability remains elusive. For @prospect.org, our @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social breaks down how Fed Vice Chair Michelle Bowman's calls for a new review ring hollow. prospect.org/2026/03/09/t...

Trump’s OMB director has quietly institutionalized the government demolition agenda set in motion by Elon Musk’s wrecking crew.

When the next Katrina hits, Kristi Noem's sabotage of FEMA will make disaster recovery even harder.

If the Democrats continue to whisper while Trump shouts, they will find themselves wondering why a public suffering under his authoritarianism remains reluctant to hand them the keys to power.

DHS' top official charged with overseeing AI and surveillance operations previously worked at Anduril Industries, a major military AI contractor.

Kristi Noem sat atop millions of dollars in flood prevention grants while the West Coast was being flooded — then slashed FEMA disaster response staff.

The SEC just settled its case against crypto billionaire Justin Sun, requiring just a $10M penalty to resolve serious securities laws violations. Sun previously bought $75M in crypto tokens from the Trump family's crypto firm after the 2024 election.

Who benefits from the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, whose casualties include at least 165 elementary school girls? Big Oil, AI companies, and the military-industrial complex.

Under Kristi Noem's DHS, FEMA has failed to deploy federal disaster aid in a timely manner.

PODCAST: Our Dylan Gyauch-Lewis joined the Dystopia Now podcast to discuss the growing nationwide backlash to AI data centers.

Want to learn how the next Congress can actually hold the Trump administration accountable? Vote for our Netroots Nation '26 panel "Overseeeing Oversight: Make Congress do its Job".

From Social Security to voter information, the Trump administration is mishandling your personal information.

Will the backlash to AI data centers keep growing across the country? Not if the Abundance Gang has anything to say about it.