Tracking Trump’s Corporate Cronies

Candidate Trump railed against the corporate elite and special interests making backroom deals in D.C. Instead of removing the insiders as promised, Trump turned over the inner workings of government to the corporate class. Public Citizen has been tracking Trump’s nominations and appointments within his transition team and administration. Below is some of the work Public Citizen has done, which shows Trump’s ‘draining the swamp’ promises were a scam.

• March 2, 2020: Trump’s EPA Caught Trying to Hide Criticism of Its Propose Clean Cars Rollback
• February 25, 2020: Swamp Monster Video Sends Message to Interior Secretary Bernhardt: Stop Doing Polluters’ Dirty Work
• February 5, 2020: FDA Refuses to Ban Heart-Toxic Dietary Supplements Containing Cesium, Endangering Patients and Ignoring Agency’s Own Expert Assessment
• January 30, 2020: Bernhardt Aims to Give Oil Industry Free Pass to Kill Birds
• January 16, 2020: Bernhardt’s Revolving Door Network Attracts Millions From Former Clients Lobbying the Federal Government
• January 14, 2020: Former Chemical Industry Lobbyist Would Endanger Children, Consumers if Nominated to CPSC
• January 13, 2020: Ethics Complaint Alleges McConnell May Have Violated the Rules of the Senate on Impartiality with Impeachment
• January 2, 2020: Term Extension for Pro-Drilling Interior Department Official Show Normalization of Radical Views
• December 16, 2019: 26 Groups Call on Senate to Reject Trump’s OIRA Nominee, Paul Ray
• December 3, 2019: White House Seeks to Poison the Well Ahead of House Consideration of Landmark Prescription Legislation
• November 25, 2019: Trump’s Monopoly-Friendly Administration Gives Us ‘Megamerger Monday’
• November 18, 2019: Despicable: Trump Puts Vaping Industry Profits Ahead of Kids’ Lives
• November 8, 2019: Trump’s Interior Department Swamped by Corruption: Secretary Bernhardt Awards Water Contract to Former Lobbying Client
• November 5, 2019: Trump’s SEC Chief Cements Anti-Investor Legacy
• November 1, 2019: Will FDA Pick Advance Trump’s Dangerous Deregulatory Agenda?
• October 25, 2019: The EPA Has Some Explaining to Do If It Wants to Weaken the Clean Car Standards
• October 17, 2019: Public Citizen Tells EPA That Reversing Obama-Era Methane Rule Is Dangerous
• October 3, 2019: By Increasing Corporate Power Over Medicare, Trump Threatens Health Care for Seniors and Americans With Disabilities
• October 2, 2019: Vaping Crisis Could Have Been Prevented: Industry Lobbying, Anti-Regulatory Analysis Blocked FDA Action
• September 26, 2019: Lack of Prosecution, Soft Punishments Lead to Repeated Corporate Law Breaking
• September 18, 2019: Private Contractors Made Billions From Immigration and Corrections Contracts Under Trump, Obama
• September 17, 2019: Trump’s Antitrust Nonenforcers Need to Explain Themselves
• September 17, 2019: ‘Woefully Inadequate’: Public Citizen Calls Out FDA’S Slow Response to Ensuring Safer Opioids
• September 12, 2019: Corporate ‘Fat Cat’ Joins Other Industry Lobbyists at Event Pushing Vote on NAFTA 2.0 That LocKS in High Drug Prices, Won’t Stop Outsourcing
• September 6, 2019: Automaker Antitrust Investigation Is Trumpian Revenge
• August 20, 2019: We Know How This Ends: Trump Regulators Open Casino Doors for Bankers
• July 24, 2019^:  Trump Touts ‘Pledge to America’s Workers’ Anniversary While Participating Firms That Promised New American Jobs Outsource
• June 20, 2019: In Trump’s America, Crime Does Pay
• June 19, 2019: Trump’s EPA Includes Co-Benefits, But Only When It Supports a Handout to Big Coal
• June 18, 2019: Bye-Bye Buerkle: CPSC Chair Withdraws Nomination
• June 7, 2019: Trump’s CFPB Sides With Payday and Vehicle Title Lenders Over Consumers
• June 5, 2019: Under Trump, Wall Street Watchdog Takes a Bite Out of Investors’ Wallets
• May 23, 2019: A Whopping 75% of FTC Officials Have Revolving Door Conflicts With Tech Corporations and Other Industries
• May 21, 2019: Regulatory Rollbacks Defied Public Opinion to Reward Big Corporations
• May 9, 2019: Trump Regulators Granted 85% of Industry Wishes
• April 12, 2019: Trump’s Power Grab Over Independent Agencies Puts the Fed, FEC, CFPB Under Political Control
• April 11, 2019: With Bernhardt Confirmed at Interior, Oil Execs Must Be Laughing So Hard It Hurts
• April 8, 2019: Tuesday Hearing: CPSC Is Protecting Industry Profits, Not Consumers
• April 4, 2019: Rejecting Bernhardt Should Be Easy
• April 3, 2019: SEC Commissioner Nominee Must Protect Consumers and Watchdog Corporate Wrongdoing
• April 2, 2019: At 2019 Washington Auto Show, Activists to Denounce Ford’s Collusion with Trump Administration to Roll Back Clean Car Standards
• March 26, 2019: Action to Highlight Bernhardt’s Record Number of Conflicts of Interest
• March 13, 2019: Federal Consumer Protection Enforcement Drops 37 Percent Under President ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Trump
• March 6, 2019: Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Chief Faces Pivotal Moment
• March 5, 2019: Good Riddance to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
• February 22, 2019: Azar’s Victory Lap Speech Ignores Prescription Cost Time Bomb Exploding in Consumer Pocketbooks Daily
• February 21, 2019: Ending Negotiations With California Over Clean Car Standards Is an Ominous Sign, But List of Defenders Grows
• February 20, 2019: 200 State Lawmakers Urge Auto Industry to Buck Trump, Support Vehicle Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards
• February 19, 2019: An Anti-Regulatory Extremist Has Been Picked for No. 2 at DOJ
• February 6, 2019: Trump’s CFPB Director Threatens to Fill the Swamp With Loan Sharks
• February 4, 2019: Financial Crash Bandits Run Wild Under Trump Presidency
• January 29, 2019: Corporate Violators Continue to Flourish Under ‘Tough on Crime’ Trump
• December 28, 2018: Energy Department’s Attempt to Secretly Classify Energy Sites Violates Numerous Federal Laws
• December 21, 2018: Jaw-Dropping Revelation – That Corporate Energy Lobbyist Wrote Quotes for Trump – Highlights Corporate Takeover of Administration
• December 20, 2018: ‘Self-Funded’ Trump Now Propped Up by Super PAC Megadonors
• December 11, 2018: Gottlieb Dead Wrong on Lethal, Highly Addictive Medication
• December 6, 2018: After Kraninger Confirmation, Watch Your Wallets, Protect Your Purses and Batten Down Your Bank Accounts
• December 3, 2018: Former Astronaut, Petitioners Demand the Space Agency Not Become a Corporate Advertiser’s Dream
• December 3, 2018: Senate Must Oppose McNamee
• November 16, 2018: Trump Won’t Crack Down on Prescription Price Gouging Because Pharma Pays Pro-Trump Groups
• October 23, 2018: White House Must Cut Prices, Expand Access to Opioid Overdose Antidote 
• October 15, 2018: Trump’s Prescription Price Disclosure Proposal Is Mostly a Sideshow
• October 10, 2018: Trump’s So-Called Medicine ‘Gag Clause’ Ban Barely Scratches the Surface for Consumers in Need of Relief
• October 3, 2018: Good News for For-Profit College Students: Trump Administration Will Miss Deadline to Repeal Borrower Protections
• September 25, 2018: Missing From FBI Crime Report: Corporate Crime Goes Unpunished Under Trump
• September 25, 2018:  Activists Sound the Alarm to Ford: It’s Time to Save the Clean Cars Standards
• September 13, 2018: Trump Tax Scam 2.0: Locking in Inequality
• September 11, 2018: Ten Years After the Crash, Wall Street Banks Are Doing Great While Main Street Families Struggle
• September 6, 2018: On the 10-Year Anniversary of the Financial Crisis, the Trump Administration Is Going Soft on Big Banks
• August 30, 2018: Trump’s Policies Toward Workers: Drop Dead
• August 21, 2018: 100-Plus Corporate Executives Met With Trump Since Charlottesville Neo-Nazi Rally
• July 25, 2018: Penalties for Corporate Violations Plummet by Double Digits Under Trump
• July 5, 2018: Pruitt’s Exit Is Deserved, But Won’t Change the Trump Administration
• June 29, 2018: As Trump Administration Caves on Planned Restrictions on Chinese Investment in U.S., Public Citizen Database Reveals China Increasingly Uses U.S. Acquisitions to Achieve ‘China 2025’ Objectives
• June 28, 2018: Mulvaney Reportedly Cut $11 Million Fine in Half for Campaign Donor, Despite Hundreds of Consumer Complaints
• March 19, 2018: Trump’s Opioid Death Penalty Double Standard
• March 13, 2018: Report: Information Suppression Is Part of a Trump Administration Effort to Serve Corporate and Extremist Interests
• March 9, 2018: National, State and Local Groups Call on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to Reimburse Taxpayers for His Costly and Unnecessary First-Class Travel
• February 21, 2018: Will Bump Stock Regs Be Held Hostage to Trump’s Deregulation Agenda?
• February 20, 2018: Trump’s Assault on Health Care System Intensifies; Proposed Rule Would Let Insurers Offer Junk Plans
• February 12, 2018: Budget Confirms: Trump Administration Fails the Litmus Test, Won’t Make Medicines More Affordable
• February 12, 2018: Trump White House Budget Proposal Likely to Do Little to Make Medicines More Affordable; Public Citizen Experts Available for Comment
• February 5, 2018: Kathleen Hartnett White Withdrawn From Consideration as Trump’s Environmental Advisor
• February 7, 2018: Trump’s DOL Concealed Data to Hide Numbers Showing Its Tip Rule Will Likely Cost Workers Billions
• January 22, 2018: Public Citizen Announces Nominations for ‘Trumpy’ Awards – Recognizing the Worst of the Worst
• January 17, 2018: Mulvaney Corrupts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• January 17, 2018: Toyota Backs Off Partnership With Trump’s EPA Amid Public Concerns
• January 17, 2018: Report: Trump Repeatedly Picks Plutocrats Over People
• January 16, 2018: Alex Azar Is Unfit to Serve as Nation’s Top Public Health Official
• January 16, 2018: Report: The Presidency Appears to Have Caused Trump’s Brand to Decline
• January 9, 2018: Azar Backs Pharma Over the People
• January 8, 2018: OSHA Inspectors Decline, the Latest Assault in Trump’s War on Workers
• January 5, 2018: Trump Administration Continues Assault on Nation’s Health Care System; Latest Proposed Rule Would Allow Insurers to Scrimp on Health Benefits
• January 4, 2018: Trump’s Reckless Offshore Oil Gambit Puts Taxpayers, Workers, Environment and Climate at Risk
• December 19, 2017: Legislation Will Be Repealed and Replaced With Era of Tax Justice
• December 14, 2017: Trump’s Fall Unified Agenda on Regulations Shows Deregulation’s Toxic Consequences
• December 11, 2017: A Travesty of Justice: HSBC Being Released From Deferred Prosecution Agreement
• December 1, 2017: More Than Half of the Lobbyists in Washington Have Plunged Into the Tax Debate
• November 30, 2017: 44 Trump Administration Officials Have Close Ties to the Koch Brothers, Public Citizen Finds
• November 29, 2017: Trump’s Tough-on-Crime DOJ Will Let Corporate Bribery Slide
• November 28, 2017: Regulations Stopped by the Trump Administration Would Have Provided Crucial Public Protections
• November 28, 2017: Wall Street Titans Poised to Reap $28 Billion From a Single Provision of Senate Tax Bill
• November 17, 2017: House Republicans Pass Plan That Raises Taxes on the Middle Class, Gives Cuts to Corporations
• November 16, 2017: Thanksgiving Road Travel to Cost Consumers More if Trump and Ford Have Their Way
• November 14, 2017: Apple, Microsoft Poised to Reap Nearly $75 Billion From a Single Provision of Trump’s Tax Plan
• November 13, 2017: Trump Completes Big Pharma’s Takeover of America’s Health Care With Nomination of Alex Azar to Head HHS
• November 3, 2017: Trump’s Tax Plan Would Be Handout to Pharmaceutical Industry
• November 2, 2017: By Naming Powell to Chair Fed, Trump Misses Opportunity
• November 1, 2017: Trump’s Savage Attack on Veterans, Servicemembers and Consumers Is a Gift to Big Banks
• October 31, 2017: By Giving ExxonMobil a Slap on the Wrist, Feds Tell Polluters, ‘Don’t Worry About Enforcement in the Trump Administration’
• October 26, 2017: Trump Declares Opioid Public Health Emergency, But It Will Take More Than Tweets and Big Pharma Nominations to Save Lives
• October 18, 2017: If Alex Azar Is Confirmed as HHS Secretary, Big Pharma’s Coup of Health Care Sphere Will Be Virtually Complete
• October 17, 2017: Trump’s Withdrawal of the GIPSA Rules Lets Agribusiness Giants Bully Small Farmers
• October 13, 2017: Texas Anti-Climate Leader Is Wrong Pick for U.S. Environmental Council
• October 9, 2017: Clean Power Plan Repeal Is a Coal Industry Giveaway
• October 9, 2017: More Gifts for Wall Street in Trump’s Latest Treasury Department Deregulation Blueprint
• October 5, 2017: Report: More Than 40 Individuals With Close Ties to Trump or Pence Have Lobbied So Far in 2017
• September 29, 2017: Trump’s Regulators Chart Dangerous Path for Banking Industry, Shouldn’t Let AIG Escape Oversight
• September 28, 2017: Trump’s Deregulation Push Is Setting the Stage for Major National Disasters
• September 6, 2017: Fischer’s Resignation Puts Wall Street Reform in the Crosshairs
• August 30, 2017: Ivanka’s Deregulation Push Puts Trump Empire, Corporate Profits Ahead of Equal Pay
• August 24, 2017: Before Charlottesville, President Trump Had More Than 300 Meetings with Corporate Executives
• August 21, 2017: Keeping Up With the Trumps Leaves Secret Service Out of Money
• August 18, 2017: Trump’s Department of Justice Lets Mylan Off the Hook in EpiPen Settlement
• August 16, 2017: Corporate Council Shut Down; No Profiles in Courage
• August 14, 2017: Trump Is All Talk on Big Pharma, But Silent on Racism
• August 8, 2017: Trump Giveaway to Rail and Trucking Industries Endangers Millions of Lives
• July 31, 2017: Trump Proposal Would Endanger the Health and Safety of Nursing Home Residents
• July 20, 2017: Trump’s Unified Agenda on Regulation Is a Corporate Wish List
• July 19, 2017: Six Months of Damage: Trump’s Corporate Presidency Delivers Benefits to Business, Harms Public
• June 23, 2017: Draft Trump Executive Order Abandons Promises to Challenge Big Pharma and Make Medications Affordable
• June 22, 2017: After Trump Cozies Up to Drone Corporations, Expect More Gutting of Safety Standards
• June 21, 2017: Nearly 70 Percent of Trump’s Picks for Top Administration Jobs Have Corporate Ties
• June 13, 2017: Treasury Report Proposes to Demolish Wall Street Reform
• June 6, 2017: President Names Foreclosure Prince to Oversee National Banks
• June 5, 2017: Corporate Offenders Swamp Trump
• May 25, 2017: The Mulvaney Doctrine: Sacrifice Only the Most Vulnerable on the Altar of Deficit Reduction
• May 22, 2017: Once Again, DOJ Announces Megabank Crime With No Crook on the Hook
• May 12, 2017: Attorney General Sessions’ Classic Mistake – Bully The Little Guy, Disregard Corporate Crime
• May 11, 2017: Trump’s New Bank Regulator Offers First Gift to Wall Street, Pushes to Undo Crucial Volcker Rule
• May 4, 2017: Trumpcare Would Repeal Prescription Coverage and Provide Tax Breaks for Big Pharma
• May 2, 2017: Now That He Is SEC Chair, Clayton Must Champion Main Street
• May 2, 2017: Public Protection Devastation Count: 14th Safeguard on the Chopping Block
• April 27, 2017: OMB Director Mulvaney Floats Demonstrably False Conspiracy Theory on Regulatory Costs
• April 26, 2017: The Trump, Mnuchin and Cohn Tax Plan: Goldman Sachs Populism At Its Worst
• April 26, 2017: Trump at 100 Days: Health Care Proposals Are Wrong Course
• April 26, 2017: Trump’s First 100 Days: Unprecedented Deregulatory Giveaways to Corporations
• April 25, 2017: New Report Reveals Trump Is Not Punishing Corporations that Offshore American Jobs, but Awarding Them New Government Contracts
• April 24, 2017: Trump Tax Proposal: President Delivering for Corporate Class
• April 24, 2017: Trump’s First 100 Days: A Wholesale Corporate Takeover of Government
• April 21, 2017: Trump Financial Law Executive Orders Signal Salad Days for Wall Street
• April 19, 2017: Record-Setting Inauguration Kitty: If Only It Had Bought a Bigger Crowd
• April 17, 2017: Corporate Executives Swamp the White House
• April 7, 2017: Trump’s Reg Czar: Corporate Gatekeeper?
• April 6, 2017: White House Economic Adviser Gary Cohn Supports Glass-Steagall Principles? But Will It Last?
• April 4, 2017: Venture Capitalist Gottlieb Has Too Many Conflicts to Run FDA; We Need a Nominee Who Will Protect Public Health Instead of Industry
• March 10, 2017: Trump’s FDA Pick Has Extensive Industry Ties and Dangerous Deregulatory Ideas
• March 9, 2017: Trump’s Likely Picks to Head OIRA Would Unleash Corporate Predators and Polluters
• Feb. 28, 2017: Top Trump Adviser to Reap Possible $200 Million Annual Benefit From President’s Executive Order on Renewable Fuel Standard
• Feb. 17, 2017: New White House Communications Director Represents the Corporate Interests Candidate Trump Ran Against
• Feb. 16, 2017: Senate Should Delay Pruitt Vote Until Oklahoma Documents Are Released
• Feb. 16, 2017: Will Mulvaney Drop His Anti-Government Extremism at OMB?
• Feb. 15, 2017: Pruitt’s EPA Confirmation Could Be Eased Due to More Than $176 Million in Industry Donations to U.S. Senators by Anti-EPA Interests
• Feb. 15, 2017: Puzder’s Withdrawal a Win for Working Families
• Jan. 31, 2017: Ethics Watchdog Applauds Boycott of Trump’s Corporate Cabinet
• Jan. 31, 2017: Floor Debate Begins for U.S. Secretary of State Nominee, U.S. Senate Cannot Deny That Rex Tillerson’s Evasive Non-Answers and Climate Change Denial Disqualify Him from Service
• Jan. 23, 2017: U.S. Senators Fail at Their Jobs by Signaling Support for Rex Tillerson
• Jan. 18, 2017: In Light of New Information, Public Citizen Renews Call for Investigation into HHS Nominee’s Stock Trading Activity
• Jan. 13, 2017: Mulvaney Is Too Extreme to Direct OMB
• Jan. 11, 2017: Key Questions Senators Must Ask Rex Tillerson, Trump’s Secretary of State Pick
• Jan. 9, 2017: Get the Rundown on Trump Nominees – Their Corporate Ties, Conflicts of Interest, More
• Jan. 6, 2017: CorporateCabinet.org Tracks Trump Cabinet Picks
• Jan. 6, 2017: Does Tillerson’s Deal With Exxon Eliminate His Interest in the Company?
• Jan. 5, 2017: Corporate Accountability Blunders Taint Sessions (Trump’s HHS pick) Record
• Jan. 5, 2017: Extensive Stock Trading by Trump’s Nominee for HHS Raises Conflict of Interest Concerns
• Jan. 3, 2017: Choice of Robert Lighthizer as USTR Strengthens Prospects for a New Approach to U.S. Trade Policy
• Dec. 9, 2016: Betraying His Voters, Trump’s Interior Pick Backs Dirty Energy and Big Polluters
• Dec. 7, 2016: Terrible Choice: Trump Picks Fossil Fuel Industry Ally to Head EPA
• Nov. 30, 2016: America, You’ve Been Had; Millionaire Mnuchin Is One of the Corporate Elite That Candidate Trump Railed Against
• Nov. 29, 2016: 70 Percent of Trump Landing Team Members Have Corporate Ties
• Nov. 29, 2016: Trump’s Corporate Takeover of Federal Agencies
• Nov. 28, 2016: Texan Who Shouldn’t Play a Role in the Trump Administration Is Rumored to Be Interviewing Today for EPA Administrator
• Nov. 23, 2016: Five Questions for Trump Transition Team
• Nov. 23, 2016: Two Texans Who Shouldn’t Play a Role in the Trump Administration
• Nov. 18, 2016: America Is Better Than Jeff Sessions
• Nov. 16, 2016: The List: Here Are the Special Interest Insiders Swarming Trump’s Transition Team
• Nov. 15, 2016: Here’s What Candidate Trump Said About Clean Government. Use This to Hold Him Accountable.
• Nov. 14, 2016: Fox in the Henhouse: Leading Trump Candidate for Treasury Said to Be Former Goldman Sachs Partner With Ties to Great Recession