2025年1月23日 · The new chief of staff for Trump’s USDA, which oversees federal nutrition guidelines, has a lobbying background that may conflict with the mission to “Make America …

11 小时之前 · During his campaign to return to the White House, Donald Trump made a heavy appeal to oil and gas industry executives, asking them during an April dinner at Mar-a-Lago to …

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Investigative journalism on money in politics

2024年10月24日 · There have been a lot of important money-in-politics stories this year that Sludge was the first, or only, newsroom to cover. We were… The first to list all of AIPAC’s …

2 天之前 · A reader wrote in with questions about President Trump’s cryptocurrency meme coin and how it could be used for unseemly influence, so today I wanted to highlight an aspect of …

2025年1月20日 · One of the names being floated for the Trump administration’s next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Melissa Holyoak, a commissioner of the …

2024年11月5日 · Donald Trump dances off stage at the conclusion of a campaign rally on Nov. 4, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

2024年12月5日 · Trump Raises Massive Legal War Chest for Post-Election Fights. Trump and the RNC have a far larger legal fund than their Democratic counterpart, though the Harris …

2024年8月16日 · The federal lawmakers who Sludge found have revealed violating the STOCK Act so far this month are senators John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), plus …