A legislative effort by House Republicans to close campaign finance loopholes — long used by progressive organizations to shield donor identities — has surfaced an uncomfortable irony: the bill's broad language would ensnare President Trump's own Freedom 250 project in the very transparency requirements it seeks to impose on others. This is the recurring paradox of reform, where the tools fashioned to constrain one's opponents have a way of turning in the hand that forged them. The story unfolding in Washington is less about any single political project and more about the enduring tension betw