The American Prospect has mapped out, federal agency by federal agency, the corruption of the Trump administration. Mapping Corruption: The Interactive Exhibit
This is one of those overview articles that are useful to save as a future reference . I can't do it justice. You need to look at it yourself.
The article starts with an interactive map of the Mall in Washington DC and you can click on any of the federal agency buildings and jump to get the details of that agency.
The original interactive image is from The American Prospect |
But here are a few snippets. It starts with the Department of Agriculture. The subheadings are adjusted to each agency, but Quick and Dirty and What am I Doing Here? seem to be part of each agency.
"Agriculture Department
QUICK AND DIRTY
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was the subject of multiple ethics complaints and investigations during two terms as governor of Georgia. In one headline-making case, he approved a tax bill with a little-noticed provision that retroactively saved him $100,000 on a land sale.
Perdue has filled the department’s top ranks with former agribusiness executives and lobbyists, along with an unusual number of Trump campaign workers without other obvious qualifications.
The Agriculture Department has OK’d sharply higher line speeds for hog and poultry slaughterhouses and cut back on USDA meat-safety inspections, letting some big employers hand that responsibility off to low-wage workers.
While in Wisconsin for a conference of dairy farmers at a time of widespread distress and a surge in farmer suicides, Perdue implied that they should just get used to it, telling reporters, “In America, the big get bigger and the small go out.”
The department has proposed taking three million people off food stamps.
The department has loosened many environmental and health and safety regulations and dismissed concerns over climate change."
"WHAT AM I DOING HERE?Secretary Betsy DeVos inherited money and married money. She has had almost no personal experience with the public schools.Her brother, Erik Prince, founded the private military company originally known as Blackwater but renamed Xe Services after its involvement in a notorious 2007 mass killing of Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.Her father-in-law, Richard M. DeVos, founded the multilevel marketing giant Amway and used Republican Party connections to throttle a federal investigation depicting his company as a pyramid scheme.DeVos has been a leading bundler of campaign money for Republican candidates in her native Michigan and across the country.Her family has poured millions of dollars into private Christian schools and campaigns for “school choice.” The goal of her educational activism, she has said, is to “advance God’s kingdom.”She refers to education as an “industry” and has called public education “a closed market,” “a monopoly,” and 'a dead end.'”
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