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FOIA Requests

Transparency

CREW requests records on Trump’s DC takeover

CREW filed expedited FOIA requests with 12 federal agencies in an attempt to establish the cost to taxpayers of President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in DC and determine which units within the agencies were reassigned to prioritize the DC takeover, which local government has called unlawful and successfully challenged in court.

Investigations

Corruption

Trump businesses seek to hire more foreign workers as his administration supercharges deportations

While the Trump administration promotes the impact of its economic policies on “[n]ative-born American workers” and ICE raids restaurants, meatpackers and construction sites around the country, President Trump’s own businesses are again seeking to hire foreign workers at his luxury properties.

Investigations

Corruption

Former FCC staffer, named as potential commissioner nominee, may have violated Hatch Act

Gavin Wax, a former FCC staffer whose name has been floated to fill an FCC commissioner vacancy, may have violated the Hatch Act several times during his brief tenure at the agency earlier this year.

FOIA Requests

Corruption

CREW requests records on State Department spending at Trump-owned properties

CREW filed FOIA requests for all State Department expenditures at Trump-owned properties since January 2025.

Investigations

Money In Politics

Qualcomm gave $1 million to pro-Trump dark money group

Technology company Qualcomm gave $1 million to a nonprofit that supported Trump in the 2024 election and is spending to boost his agenda.

Reports

Money In Politics

Corporate America has largely abandoned its post-January 6 promises on democracy

Since the January 6 insurrection, over 2,000 corporate and industry group PACs have given over $174 million to members of the Sedition Caucus—those 147 lawmakers who voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election as well as Donald Trump and the new members of Congress who ran on the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election.

CREW requests records on Trump’s DC takeover

Trump businesses seek to hire more foreign workers as his administration supercharges deportations

Former FCC staffer, named as potential commissioner nominee, may have violated Hatch Act

CREW requests records on State Department spending at Trump-owned properties

Qualcomm gave $1 million to pro-Trump dark money group

Corporate America has largely abandoned its post-January 6 promises on democracy

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