The public’s trust in the federal government has been on the decline for a couple of decades now, but the trend has really accelerated under the Biden administration. A Gallup survey last October revealed that the public’s faith in all three branches of the government had fallen below fifty percent for the first time, with trust in the executive branch dipping to just 43%. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, 87% of Democrats said they still trusted the presidency with one of their guys in the Oval Office.) Now there is someone in Congress who is proposing legislation to address this endemic lack of trust, and to my great surprise, it’s a Democrat. As Courtney Buble reports at Government Executive, Mike Quigley of Illinois has introduced a pair of bills that aim to increase White House transparency and restore the faith of the American people.Read More
Democrat’s bill would mandate White House transparency
