Despite the enormous growth in public records, funding for the National Archives budget has remained relatively flat for the past 30 years, according to experts and agency reports.
Government officials sometimes cart home documents, in a dispute over what is public and what is personal.beyond the hundreds of classified records.
People walk up the steps even though the National Archives was closed in a partial government shutdown, Dec. 22, 2018 in Washington. While the Archives safeguards precious national documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that's only the public face of their sprawling collection, which spans 13 billion pages of text and 10 million maps, charts and drawings, as well as tens of millions of photographs, films and other records.
“It’s a tiny agency, frankly with no clout,” Anne Weismann, chief counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Project on Government Oversight, told USA TODAY. “We find ourselves in a position where the number of records of a president is increasing exponentially, especially with email. Yet the resources aren’t, both in terms of money and staff.”
But Cooper refused to order the administration to halt the use of the apps because the Trump administration pledged to preserve its records. A February 2017 memo from the White House counsel’s office reminded staffers to “conduct all work-related communications” on official email and that use of messaging apps such as Snapchat, Confide, Slack and others “is not permitted.”The strategy to keep things out of the public record is nothing new.
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