{"id":487903,"date":"2021-05-09T08:50:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487903"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:50:36","slug":"biden-admin-to-end-trumps-policy-to-withhold-white-house-visitor-logs-from-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-end-trumps-policy-to-withhold-white-house-visitor-logs-from-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin To End Trump\u2019s Policy To Withhold White House Visitor Logs From Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-to-end-trumps-policy-to-withhold-white-house-visitor-logs-from-public%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487903&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"39.671046457062\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Joe Biden\u2019s administration will resume disclosing all White House visitors on a monthly basis after former President Donald Trump had ended the practice, the White House announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/disclosures\/visitor-logs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disclosed visitors<\/a> through January on Friday, listing some 400 people who had attended events at the White House. Many were members of military bands or other staff who had roles to play in Biden\u2019s inauguration ceremony on January 20. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/07\/biden-jobs-report-april-trump-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Says Americans Need To Put Disappointing Jobs Report \u2018In Perspective\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"10.782089552239\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The White House just published the first log of visitors from Jan. These are people invited on the grounds, and the White House says they\u2019ll disclose them on a monthly basis. Trump had stopped the practice, citing privacy &#038; \u201cgrave national security risks.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ABrBcQVyby\">https:\/\/t.co\/ABrBcQVyby<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1390766832634802194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_6929412\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6929412\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6929412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1241547132-e1604461260553.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 02: A fence is seen at the Lafayette Square near the White House on June 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has imposed a 7pm curfew for Monday and Tuesday nights with the D.C. National Guard and other federal law enforcement agencies deployed. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-6929412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JUNE 02: A fence is seen at the Lafayette Square near the White House on June 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has imposed a 7pm curfew for Monday and Tuesday nights with the D.C. National Guard and other federal law enforcement agencies deployed. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The logs show just how sparse in-person meetings have been in Biden\u2019s White House due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had previously ended the practice of disclosing White House visitors in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/04\/14\/the-white-house-will-no-longer-disclose-visitor-logs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arguing<\/a> it infringed on his privacy and presented \u201cgrave national security risks.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/26\/biden-press-charge-reporters-covid-test-white-house\/\">(RELATED: Biden Press Office Seeks To Charge Reporters $170 For COVID-19 Tests Before Entering White House)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under President Barack Obama, the logs often listed hundreds of visitors per day, from lobbyists and donors to politicians and administration officials. The logs were often imperfect, however, as scheduled appointments that never actually occurred often still made it on the lists. Many administrations also reserved the right to withhold names under certain circumstances, such as candidates for federal judicial nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s White House <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/01\/white-house-refusal-publish-names-attendees-biden-virtual-meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeared hesitant<\/a> to reinstate the visitor logs for months after gaining office.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration will resume disclosing all White House visitors on a monthly basis after former President Donald Trump had ended the practice, the White House announced &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277591,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1241547132-e1604461260553.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Admin To End Trump\u2019s Policy To Withhold White House Visitor Logs From Public","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1241547132-e1604461260553.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Admin To End Trump\u2019s Policy To Withhold White House Visitor Logs From Public","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}