The Trump administration scrubbed nearly 3,400 federal datasets from the US government's open data site. data.gov.
In his first month of office, President Trump has made a promise to clean his home with a massive slash of federal workforce and publicly accessible data.
Before Trump, there were 308,000 datasets available on data.gov. That's after being soaked in 304,621 as of February 21st. It has 3,379 datasets removed, what was there on those pages?
One researcher told The Associated Press earlier this month that the de facto purge put them in.”Crazy scramble“To determine public data that has been deleted from government websites and e-publications.
Which dataset, website removed the cards?
One of the first executive orders Trump signed is a website that promotes “gender ideology” by signing federal agencies that must use the term “sex” rather than “gender” in official policies and documents. led to extensive deletion of the
“You go and look for something, and it's just not there,” Amy O'Hara, a researcher at Georgetown University, who is the chairman of the Association of Public Data Users, told the Associated Press.
The USDA was also told to remove the climate change page, according to an email from the agency's communications department.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also saw some pages go dark. Particularly related to HIV.
Another shocked database is the one used. Track federal officials' misconductNational Law Enforcement Accountability Database.
The database, first proposed by Trump in 2020, became a reality in 2022 under former President Biden. As of September 2024, it holds a record of 4,790 misconduct.
The Department of Justice Confirmed The website has been removed and the agency has said it cannot search or add information to its database.
Judge orders a restored health data set
A federal judge on February 11 asked the agency to restore health-related webpages and datasets following Trump's executive order.
Washington US District Judge John Bates issued a temporary restraining order at the request of an advocacy group, the American doctor.
Bates ordered the agency to restore public access to deleted web pages “without proper notification or reasonable explanation.”
Other websites and datasets have been reactivated, but hundreds of previous federal pages have not yet been described.
News Nation Steph White Side The Associated Press contributed to this report.
