Who they are and what they did.

Our team at Democracy Forward exposes the bad stuff you haven’t seen in headlines. Each Behind the Scenes installment includes what we found—and what we still want to know:

Trump's right-wing loyalist tapped to lead federal HR policy

John Gibbs, Acting Secretary of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development

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A USICH czar’s punitive homelessness policy

Robert Marbut, Executive Director, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness

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The State officials undercutting human rights abroad

Peter Berkowitz and F. Cartwright Weiland, Commission on Unalienable Rights, State Department

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A Stephen Miller ally at DHS

John Zadrozny, Acting Chief of Staff, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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An HHS official’s abstinence-only ideology

Valerie Huber, Chief of Staff, Department of Health and Human Services

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A DOJ official’s hate group ties

Noel Francisco, Solicitor General of the United States

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An Ed. leader's for-profit college ties

Diane Auer Jones, Principal Deputy Under Secretary, Department of Education

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A CBP official's Islamophobic actions

Katharine Gorka, Press Secretary, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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An Ed. official isn't protecting survivors

Candice Jackson, Deputy General Counsel, Office of Civil Rights, Department of Education

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A White House official from Big Pharma

Joe Grogan, White House Domestic Policy Council

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