We The People Petitioners Typically Wait Three Months for a Reply

On average, it takes White House officials nearly three months to pen responses to citizen petitions filed on its We the People website, once those petitions cross the threshold for an official reply. The average wait time dropped markedly, though, after the White House raised its threshold for a petition response from 5,000 to 25,000 signatures in a month just a few weeks after We the People first went online. It took administration officials an average of 108 days to respond to petitions submitted under the 5,000 signature barrier but just 54 days to respond to petitions that crossed the 25,000 signature threshold, according to a Nextgov analysis.