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May 5, 2026

Trump vs. the public’s right to know

The Presidential Records Act and FOIA exist to preserve presidential documents as public property and to ensure access to government records, respectively. "By erasing and deleting the information to which we are entitled, they are depriving the public of information ... to know whether their government has been serving them as they promised to," Chioma Chukwu, executive director of American Oversight, tells Axios.