Among the critiques: The schedules for the president and vice president aren’t posted online. The White House comment line is shut down. There are no citizen petitions on the White House’s website.
The White House has committed to releasing visitor logs. But it doesn’t plan to divulge the names of attendees of virtual meetings, which are the primary mode of interaction until the coronavirus pandemic eases.
And while Biden has received kudos for keeping the American public informed, primarily by resuming the daily White House press briefings, he has yet to hold a news conference of his own.
I would also urge the Biden administration to be more transparent. Although, I don’t see these shortfalls as being some sort of nefarious plan to withhold information from the American people.
I think it may be a subtle way of protecting Republicans that try to negotiate with the administration. Wouldn’t want any of them to end up on Trump’s Republican hit list.
You make a good point, I suppose. People tend to grant leniency to people they support or agree with. Although, I do have higher expectations for the Biden administration than the previous administration.
The complaints weren’t that Trump wasn’t personally giving briefings anymore. That was actually relieving. It was that the briefings from the actual experts dried up
I agree Biden should be more transparent, and I applaud your reawakened interest in White House transparency which I’m guessing occurred around noon on January 20, 2021.