Trump Government Is Painting It Black

“We are seeing a developing reflex on the part of this administration to be unresponsive and kind of lock people out,” says Congressman John Sarbanes, a Democrat from Maryland, who heads up the Democracy Reform Task Force, which has been tracking unanswered congressional requests to agencies and the White House since the inauguration. “I don’t know whether that reflects a conscious policy where some kind of decree has been issued at some level, but circumstantial evidence is that these agencies are locking the doors and pulling down the shades.”