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# Grassley Wants Presidential Ceremony for Whistleblowers
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/grassley-wants-presidential-ceremony-for-whistleblowers/
- Published: 2017-02-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T22:05:20.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: FDA Policy/General, #legacy-id-D5137934

Sen. **Chuck Grassley**(R-IA) is calling on President **Donald Trump** to stage a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House to honor whistleblowers. In a 2/8 [letter](http://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/judiciary/upload/2017-02-08%20CEG%20to%20DJT%20%28rose%20garden%20ceremony%29.pdf?ref=fdaweb.com), Grassley says that whistleblowers have been trying to “drain the swamp” in Washington since the nation’s founding.

“Whistleblowers are brave, patriotic people who tell the truth about what is going on in our government,” Grassley writes. “They help us identify waste, fraud, and abuse in the vast and unwieldy federal bureaucracy.”

He says the Obama administration prosecuted more whistleblowers than any previous administration and operated what the media described as the least transparent administration in history. “The time is ripe to finally recognize the immeasurable value that whistleblowers bring to our democracy,” Grassley says. “I have asked every president since **Ronald Reagan** to hold a Rose Garden ceremony honoring whistleblowers. No president has yet done so. I hope you will be the first.”

Grassley writes that holding such a ceremony “would send a loud and clear signal from the very top of government through the very bowels of the unelected bureaucracy that your administration will not tolerate waste, fraud, and abuse. It would give confidence to those with knowledge of serious problems to step up and help you make change.”