The intensifying threat of Donald Trump’s emoluments

This eight-part report, What Democracy Looks Like, is CREW’s blueprint for an ethical, accountable government.

Our democracy urgently needs more robust methods for holding the president accountable to the people. 

Our democracy urgently needs to restore checks on executive power eroded by Donald Trump and to build new checks on executive power.

Our elections have become a competition for money—not just for votes. To restore our democracy, we need to limit secret money in politics.

Trump has been an ethics disaster, and exposed a glaring need for executive branch ethics reform, to hold those in power accountable to the people.

For our government to truly be accountable to the people, executive branch transparency must be restored.