The White House will resume launching its visitor files as soon as elected president Joe Biden takes office, Biden spokesman Jen Psaki said.
The move is a move by President Donald Trump’s White House, which has kept visitor files to White House core offices, including the West Wing, private. The Trump administration has faced legal challenges with its position and in 2018 resolved a lawsuit to publish monthly visitor files for some White House offices, including the Office of Management and Budget and the drug tsar.
The policies of the Trump era have been criticized as a deterioration of transparency of the previous government. Under President Barack Obama, the White House regularly archived and released visitor files for its core offices.