Scale of Trump’s Raid on National Parks Funds for White House ‘Vanity Projects’ Revealed
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PEER | August 10, 2026
In fact, the total spending for projects at the White House and National Mall is larger than the combined spending at nine of the largest US national parks, MacFarlane found. One anonymous federal employee who spoke with MacFarlane said that the spending shifts documented in internal ...
DOJ Drops Reflecting Pool Case, But Olympian’s Lawyers Say That Won’t ‘Erase the Abuse’ of Power
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Cornershop Creative | August 1, 2026
t’s not just Pirro’s office and the DOJ under fire for this debacle. While welcoming the motion to dismiss, Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), took aim at DOI in a Saturday statement. “This project has become ...
Watchdog Says Rule Change for Federal Grants a ‘Recipe for Corruption’ on a Never-Before-Seen Scale
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Cornershop Creative | July 13, 2026
Trump megadonor and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, the comment notes, was allowed to oversee the cancellation of the contracts for numerous vendors while never touching any of the more than $19 billion his businesses held in federal contracts. “This is ...
Watchdog Sues Trump Interior Dept, Demanding Transparency on Freedom 250 Funding
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PEER | May 12, 2026
In late February, PEER’s FOIA requests sought information from DOI on reports that public funds are being directed to Freedom 250 through the congressionally chartered National Park Foundation, “with no transparency, no accountability, and no guardrails.” “America’s 250th ...
Corporate Polluters Running Rampant Under Trump as EPA Enforcement ‘Dying a Quick Death’
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PEER | January 22, 2026
In the report, The Collapse of Environmental Enforcement Under Trump’s EPA, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) noted Thursday that in the first year of former President Joe Biden’s administration, 71 cases referred by the EPA were prosecuted by the US Department ...