Protecting Democracy [1]

American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms.

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ICE Detention Center Contractors Host a Hotbed of Legal Problems, Regulatory Violations and Deadly Conditions

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Threats to Democracy
Making Government Work [2]

The U.S. government should work for the public, not corporations or industry. It should safeguard consumers, workers and the environment, and be funded well enough to do so. The budget process must not be obstructed by partisanship.

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It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity
Consumer & Worker Safeguards [3]

Every day, Big Banks, Big Tech, and their armies of corporate lobbyists threaten our economy, our financial security, and our democracy – sacrificing Main Street Americans and our families on the altar of corporate profits. Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government.

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Corporate Crime Enforcement Plummets in Trump’s First Year, Rewards Top Donors

One in Four Federal Lobbyists Now Work on AI
Safe & Affordable Drugs & Devices [4]

Prescription drugs are unaffordable and new drugs and devices often are approved without being proven safe and effective. Public Citizen challenges Big Pharma, device manufacturers and federal regulators to make drugs and medical devices safe, effective and accessible to all.

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Health Care [5]

Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials.

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Report: The Trump Administration’s Stop-Work Order and Funding Freeze likely affected 32 USAID-Funded Clinical Trials

Public Citizen Petitions OSHA and CMS to Implement Work-Hour Regulations for Resident Physicians
Globalization & Trade [6]

As Public Citizen’s division fighting for a fairer global economy, Global Trade Watch works to expose and challenge trade policies that put corporate profits over people.

Under Donald Trump, that mission faces a new urgency. Trump has won two elections in part by exploiting working people’s real frustrations about an increasingly complex and unequal global economy, yet his trade agenda serves only himself and his billionaire allies.

Global Trade Watch seeks to hold him accountable, resist corporate rollbacks, and advance a global trade vision that uplifts workers across borders.

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Climate & Energy [7]

The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power — and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy. We also must fight the corrupting power of fossil fuel companies and ensure that energy regulators are effective and publicly accountable.

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Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Trump’s Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power
Justice & the Courts [8]

Litigation can remedy or deter wrongdoing, impact policy and meaningfully slow abuses of power. Whether suing on behalf of our members to ensure the honest functioning of government, or representing individual consumers seeking redress in court, our litigation draws on our expertise in administrative law, constitutional law, and government transparency.

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Protecting Constitutional Rights & Requirements Remove

Lemmon v. Trump

April 08, 2026

Representing three Vietnam War veterans and an architectural historian, Public Citizen filed suit to block construction of a giant arch…

U.S. ex rel. Taylor v. Healthcare Associates of Texas

March 30, 2026

Under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, private individuals with non-public knowledge of fraud against the federal…

Texas International Produce Association v. OSHA

March 25, 2026

A pair of industry associations filed a lawsuit against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in a federal district…

National Nurses United v. Kennedy

March 23, 2026

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human…

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. DHS

February 27, 2026

When Congress created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2002, it created within DHS an Office for Civil Rights…

Association for Education Finance and Policy v. McMahon

February 25, 2026

In 2002, Congress passed the Education Sciences Reform Act, which established the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a semi-independent division…

Trump v. IRS

February 12, 2026

President Trump, along with two of his sons and the Trump Organization, filed a lawsuit in 2026 against the IRS…

Climate United Fund v. Citibank

February 11, 2026

In the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress appropriated funds for EPA to make clean-energy grants. The plaintiffs in this case were…

Harris v. Bessent / Wilcox v. Trump

December 04, 2025

Shortly after taking office, President Trump terminated Cathy Harris, a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and Gwynne…

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Overturn Citizens United Now

ICE Detention Center Contractors Host a Hotbed of Legal Problems, Regulatory Violations and Deadly Conditions

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Threats to Democracy

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

Corporate Crime Enforcement Plummets in Trump’s First Year, Rewards Top Donors

One in Four Federal Lobbyists Now Work on AI

Join the Movement

Win Medicare for All

Report: The Trump Administration’s Stop-Work Order and Funding Freeze likely affected 32 USAID-Funded Clinical Trials

Public Citizen Petitions OSHA and CMS to Implement Work-Hour Regulations for Resident Physicians

Join the Trade Justice Movement

Tell Toyota: Go all-in on EVs

Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Trump’s Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power

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