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A progressive policy group led by former aides to President Joe Biden and Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren has drawn up a 182-page blueprint mapping out the congressional investigations Democrats could launch against President Donald Trump and his corporate allies once they hold the gavels, according to a copy of the document obtained by Fox News Digital.
The dossier was produced by the Groundwork Collaborative, led by executive director Lindsey Owens, a former senior economic policy adviser to Senator Warren. It names Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Oracle, Trump Media and World Liberty Financial among the companies Democrats could target, and singles out Palantir chief executive Alex Karp and Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong by name. It also proposes hearings with executives from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.
Beyond the companies, the blueprint urges scrutiny of Mr. Trump’s personal finances — his tax arrangements, his cryptocurrency businesses and what it describes as preferential treatment for corporate donors. It specifically says to target people and companies that gave money to the new White House ballroom, the presidential library, Mr. Trump’s inauguration and his campaign.
A longtime Democratic Senate staffer familiar with the process told Fox News Digital that the Democratic majorities on the committees already plan to focus exclusively on targeting the president’s allies and donors, including those who gave to the ballroom. The staffer had not seen the document itself. A House Judiciary Committee aide for Democrats told Semafor the document was “one of many” the committee receives, adding: “We all get a lot of emails.”
The document is a set of recommendations, not an official plan from Democratic leaders, and it could foreshadow the goals of the 120th Congress, which takes over early next year. Bharat Ramamurti, a former deputy director of the National Economic Council who coordinated with Groundwork on the dossier, told Fox News Digital the oversight agenda is about understanding what corporations are doing and who is responsible for those decisions.
The blueprint also calls for expanded federal oversight of artificial intelligence, including investigations into AI companies, proposals to restrict algorithmic pricing, workplace surveillance and certain autonomous AI technologies, and scrutiny of the Trump administration’s Medicare AI program, which uses the WISeR model to screen prior authorization requests in traditional Medicare.
Other sections propose investigating a reported settlement involving Mr. Trump’s tax audits — including requesting information about the Chicago tower audit and questioning Treasury officials — and increasing scrutiny of private businesses through hearings, document demands and potential legislation aimed at major employers, landlords, insurers and technology companies. Later pages discuss measures aimed at institutional housing investors, algorithmic rent-setting and corporate pricing systems.
The document has also drawn criticism from inside the Democratic Party. The New York Post reported that party insiders described the dossier as sloppy and partially AI-generated, citing a Pangram review that found at least 83 sections appear at least partly AI-generated, along with typos, editing notes and “TK” placeholders marking unfinished sentences. Groundwork senior vice president Alex Jacquez told the Post the dossier is a “living document” of internal research that was not meant for public consumption, denied the group relied on AI to write it — citing the nonprofit’s own Pangram report showing it was 97 percent human-written — and said staff spent “hundreds of hours” over six months on the research, while acknowledging staffers used AI while conducting research.