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About this tracker

A running registry of specific actions taken by the second Trump administration (January 2025 – present) to eliminate, suppress, gut, politicize, or restrict public access to federal datasets, statistical programs, and government information resources.

The Tracker merges the Revolving Door Project’s published tracker, National Security Archive, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, KFF, the Data Rescue Project, and contemporaneous news reporting.

Scope: federal data only. State-level suppression is out of scope. Inclusion bar: the action must be documented by a named source listed in the Citations section.

How to add a new entry

Every entry is a bullet under the correct category, in this shape:


- **<Dataset / program / website>** (<Agency>): <one-sentence what happened> <one-sentence what was lost>. <Date if known>. Status: <active suppression | partially restored | fully restored | unconfirmed>. Source: [<short-id>](#citations)

When adding:

  1. Pick the closest existing category, or open a new H3 if none fits.
  2. Cite the source by short-id (e.g. RDP-2026-05-12, NSARCHIVE-2026-03-30, WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS) and add the full source to the Citations section if missing.
  3. Bump last_updated in the frontmatter.
  4. If the status changes on an existing entry (e.g. data restored), append a parenthetical update rather than rewriting history: (Update YYYY-MM-DD: ).
  5. Drafts of contentious entries: tag inline as [NEEDS VERIFICATION: ] — the guardrails check will flag it before publish.

Status legend

Status Meaning
Active suppression Dataset/program currently eliminated, paused, or staffed below operating threshold.
Partially restored Original pages or data returned in altered form, or only a subset reinstated.
Fully restored Public access fully reinstated; included for the historical record.
Unconfirmed Reported but not yet corroborated by a second source.

Pattern summary

Six recurring tactics show up across categories:

  1. Staff elimination — fire the team that maintains the dataset (PRAMS, NIOSH, EIA, climate.gov).
  2. Page takedown — remove pages and tools from agency sites (EJScreen, AtlasPlus, COVID.gov, EPA chemical-safety lookup).
  3. Variable censorship — restore pages but strip variables (transgender status, gender identity, race/equity supplements).
  4. Survey discontinuation — cancel future collection cycles (Household Food Security, DAWN, NSDUH).
  5. Report cancellation or politicization — kill or reschedule scheduled releases (advance Q3 GDP, GHG Inventory, International Energy Outlook).
  6. Capture and pre-release manipulation — fire dissenting officials, share data early, or restructure advisory bodies (BLS commissioner firing, FESAC and Census Scientific Advisory Committee disbandment).

## Tracker

### Statistical agencies and economic indicators

– Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner (DOL): Trump fired Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on August 1, 2025, hours after BLS released a weak July jobs report and sharp downward revisions for May and June, alleging without evidence that the numbers were “rigged” and “manipulated for political purposes.” Deputy Commissioner William Wiatrowski named acting director. Source: PBS-BLS-2025-08, ITEP-BLS-2025.

– October 2025 jobs report and CPI (BLS): BLS did not release October jobs and Consumer Price Index data on schedule, citing compilation issues during and after the federal shutdown. Source: CBPP-2026.

– Advance third-quarter GDP estimate (BEA): The Bureau of Economic Analysis canceled the release of its advance Q3 GDP estimate, citing the federal government shutdown — but the cancellation drew criticism that the data was being withheld because it was unfavorable. Source: NEWSWEEK-GDP-2026, TNR-GDP-2026.

– September inflation release (BEA): BEA rescheduled the September inflation data release during the same window. Source: CBPP-2026.

– Statistical advisory committees (multiple): The administration disbanded volunteer outside-expert advisory panels, including the 2030 Census Advisory Committee, the Bureau of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee, the BLS technical advisory committees, and the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC). Source: CBPP-2026, NATION-FESAC-2026.

– Pre-release disclosure of economic data: On January 8, 2026, Trump posted unreleased economic data to Truth Social the night before its scheduled release. On February 20, 2026, he leveraged GDP numbers on social media roughly half an hour before the scheduled release. Source: RDP-DISPATCHES-2026.

– Public trust collapse in federal statistics: American Statistical Association polling shows trust in federal statistical data fell from 57% (June 2025) to 50% (February 2026). Source: RDP-DISPATCHES-2026.

### Demographics, civil rights, and community resilience

– Community Resilience Estimates Equity Supplement (Census Bureau): Dataset terminated. Had measured the relationship between social factors and household capacity to withstand and recover from disasters. Archived by the Data Rescue Project. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– 2026 Census Operational Test redesign (Census Bureau): The administration cut test sites from six to two (Huntsville, AL and Spartanburg, SC — both heavily Trump-leaning), reduced the respondent pool by ~75%, swapped the short form for the much longer American Community Survey questionnaire, added a citizenship question, and piloted postal workers as enumerators. Source: NPR-CENSUS-2026-02, CENSUS-PROJECT-2026-02.

– Census Bureau “statistical noise” push (Census Bureau): The administration is pushing Census to cut what it calls “statistical noise,” which could reduce the volume of data the bureau publishes. Source: NPR-CENSUS-NOISE-2026-06.

– Demographic and Health Surveys Program (USAID): Eliminated as part of DOGE’s gutting of USAID. For $47 million annually, DHS conducted 400+ surveys in 90 countries over 40 years, covering maternal and child health, nutrition, education, water, sanitation, and disease. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– Household Food Security Report (USDA Economic Research Service / Food and Nutrition Service): Annual survey terminated September 20, 2025, when USDA announced it as “redundant, costly, politicized.” The final report was published October 22, 2025, covering 2024 data (13.7% of households food-insecure, ~48 million people affected). The survey had run for 30 years across both Republican and Democratic administrations. Two days after cancellation USDA placed the team on indefinite paid leave and demanded laptops be surrendered. Source: RDP-2026-05-12, USDA-FOODSEC-2025-09-20, CIVILEATS-FOODSEC-2025-09-22, NPR-FOODSEC-2025-09-22.

– “Not One More Report” on missing and murdered Native Americans (DOJ): Removed from the Department of Justice website in February 2025. Source: WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS.

– Head Start guidance pages (HHS ACF): Over 200 pages removed by February 2, 2025, including guidance on family routines and postpartum-depression prevention. Source: WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS.

### Public health data

– CDC webpages — mass takedown and altered restoration (CDC): Thousands of CDC pages on health data and public guidelines were taken down in early 2025, then quietly restored days later, often with variable changes and no explanation. Topics included contraception, transgender health, and climate. Some restorations were forced by litigation. Status: partially restored. Source: RDP-2026-05-12, WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS, LCCHR-2025.

– Dozen-plus disease tracking programs (CDC and HHS): Apparently eliminated during the DOGE-led purge of Trump’s first 100 days. Programs covered abortions, pregnancies, job-related injuries, lead poisoning, sexual violence, and youth smoking. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) (CDC Division of Reproductive Health): In January 2025, for the first time in three decades, the software system used to collect PRAMS data was abruptly shut down. In late March / early April 2025, layoffs reduced the Division of Reproductive Health workforce by about two-thirds; the entire PRAMS team — including staff collecting IVF and abortion data — was placed on administrative leave before the team could release the 2023 data. Source: STATNEWS-PRAMS-2025-04-01, AZPHA-PRAMS-2025-03-11, COMMONWEALTH-PRAMS-2026-01, RDP-2026-05-12.

– Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) (SAMHSA Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality): New data collection discontinued effective June 13, 2025, “to align agency activities with agency and administration priorities.” Had tracked substance-abuse ER visits and emerging substance-use trends. Source: SAMHSA-DAWN-2025, RDP-2026-05-12.

– Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (CDC): Staff eliminated. Used to map potential cancer clusters and monitor weather-related illnesses. Data also disappeared from the Environmental Justice Index. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Social Vulnerability Index (ATSDR SVI) (CDC/ATSDR): Data removed. The database identified communities at heightened social vulnerability for emergency preparedness. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) (CDC): Data removed from its website. Tracked health-related behaviors contributing to youth and adult death and disability. Source: RDP-2026-05-12, WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS.

– AtlasPlus (CDC National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention — NCHHSTP): In early April 2025, 214 NCHHSTP staff received layoff notifications; the division’s viral-hepatitis and STD laboratories were shuttered. The AtlasPlus HIV/STD tracking tool’s maintenance team was among the layoffs. Some HIV-focused staff were partially reinstated in June 2025. Status: partially restored. Source: KFFHEALTH-CDC-HIV-2025, NPR-CDC-2025-06-12, RDP-2026-05-12, WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS.

– National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (CDC): RIF notices issued April 1, 2025, eliminating roughly 85–90% of NIOSH staff (~873 cut, ~1,000 RIF notices to ~1,000 employees). Only the World Trade Center Health Program and the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program survived the initial cuts, after pushback from unions, Congress, and court orders. About 400 employees were reinstated mid-2025; in January 2026, HHS revoked all remaining NIOSH RIF notices, fully reversing the layoffs. Status: fully restored (staffing), but interrupted programs remain damaged. Source: NPR-NIOSH-2025-05-14, HEALTHCAREDIVE-NIOSH-2025, FEDNEWS-NIOSH-2026-01, RDP-2026-05-12.

– Injury data and ER surveillance (HHS/CPSC): The entire team analyzing injury data was fired in RFK Jr.’s HHS layoffs. The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s only federal real-time non-fatal-injury monitor was shut down. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) (SAMHSA): On April 1, 2025, RFK Jr. laid off the entire 17-person team — led by Jennifer Hoenig and composed mostly of statisticians — that ran the only national survey of its kind. The cuts were part of the DOGE-orchestrated SAMHSA elimination. Source: NPR-NSDUH-2025-05-29, RDP-2026-05-12.

– National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) and Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) (CDC, transferred to FDA): The administration eliminated the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) and suspended 2025 NYTS data collection mid-stream. The survey was moved fully under FDA oversight in 2025. The FDA released raw 2025 NYTS data in March 2026 with no comment or analysis. CDC’s “Tips From Former Smokers” public-education campaign was also halted. The program had helped drive teen smoking rates to a 25-year low. Source: GLANTZ-NYTS-2025-04-07, TOBACCOREPORTER-NYTS-2026-03, RDP-2026-05-12.

– National child welfare database (HHS ACF): Weeks behind on updates after layoffs eliminated the responsible team. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– Transgender health data (multiple): Transgender status no longer recorded in health-tracking systems (violent-deaths, youth risk behaviors), erasing the ability to measure heightened risks. Source: RDP-2026-05-12, KFF-2025.

– CDC disease tracking system upgrade: Modernization of the 22-year-old system derailed. The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics — created during COVID — was hit by staffing cuts while actively forecasting a multi-state measles outbreak. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– CDC bird flu reporting (CDC): Routine HHS-CDC public communications on the H5N1 outbreak were paused in late January 2025 during the administration transition’s communications freeze, hampering response as the outbreak spread. On July 7, 2025, CDC reduced the reporting cadence — monitoring/testing data now reported monthly rather than weekly — and moved USDA HPAI animal-detection data off the CDC site (now available only from USDA). Source: RDP-2026-05-12, CIDRAP-CDC-H5N1-2025-07.

– NIH RECOVER long-COVID grants: NIH abruptly terminated multiple long-COVID pathobiology grants on March 25, 2025, with HHS stating it would no longer “waste billions” responding to a “non-existent pandemic.” Most grants were restored on March 28, 2025, after public reporting and advocacy. Trials remain badly delayed (RECOVER-TLC trials not enrolling until summer 2026). Status: partially restored. Source: CEN-RECOVER-2025, SICKTIMES-RECOVER-2025, SICKTIMES-TLC-2026-01.

– LGBTQ+ health research funding (NIH): Funding cut for HIV and substance-abuse research at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine. A November 2025 reinstatement agreement was undercut when Northwestern’s Office of the President later told researchers terminated grants would not actually be restored. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– COVID.gov and COVIDtests.gov (HHS): Federal COVID-19 information hubs taken offline in April 2025. Source: WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS.

### Environment and climate data

– EJScreen (EPA Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights): Interactive mapping tool taken down February 5, 2025, after Trump revoked Executive Order 12898 (the foundation for EJScreen). The takedown removed the landing page, technical/tutorial pages, the offline-download page, and the ArcGIS server distributing the underlying spatial data. Harvard, the Public Environmental Data Partners, and others have reconstructed unofficial mirrors. Source: EELP-EJSCREEN-2025, EDGI-EJSCREEN-2025, UTILITYDIVE-EJSCREEN-2025, RDP-2026-05-12.

– EPA chemical safety public data tool (EPA): Taken down in April 2026. Had let communities look up nearby chemical factories and dangerous chemicals by zip code. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– FEMA Future Risk Index (FEMA): Launched as a prototype on December 12, 2024; taken down by administration order in February 2025. The Index was the first free public tool projecting county-level economic losses from climate change under varying emissions scenarios and hazards (coastal flooding, extreme heat, wildfire, hurricanes, drought). Two software engineers rebuilt it and shared it on GitHub. A public-interest lawsuit filed April 15, 2025, was dismissed for lack of standing on March 13, 2026. Source: EELP-FEMA-FRI, FASTCO-FEMA-2025, RDP-2026-05-12.

– Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) (EPA): On September 16, 2025, EPA proposed rule changes that would remove program obligations for most source categories, including the distribution segment of petroleum and natural gas systems (subpart W), and suspend remaining subpart W obligations until reporting year 2034. EPA also extended the RY2025 reporting deadline from March 31, 2026, to October 30, 2026. The program is a major source of international climate-pollution accounting; EPA estimated $2.4B in compliance “savings” from killing it. Source: FEDREG-GHGRP-2025-09-16, EPA-GHGRP-PROPOSAL-2025, RDP-2026-05-12, NSARCHIVE-2026-03-30.

– U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory (EPA): For the first time in nearly three decades, the U.S. failed to publicly release the inventory by its April 15 deadline. EPA only released the 2025 inventory (covering 1990–2023) after Environmental Defense Fund filed a Freedom of Information Act request; the report was published as EPA 430-R-25-003 in May 2025. Status: partially restored (via FOIA). Source: EDF-GHG-FOIA-2025.

– National Weather Service weather balloons (NOAA/NWS): Cutbacks have reduced balloon launches that gather real-time forecasting data. Funding lapses caused regional office websites to go dark. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

– NOAA Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database (NOAA NCEI / NESDIS): Retired in May 2025 “in alignment with evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes,” with no updates beyond calendar year 2024. The database had tracked weather disasters causing $1B+ in damages and was used by researchers, policymakers, insurers, and homeowners. Climate Central (nonprofit) relaunched the database in November 2025 with the dataset’s former NOAA administrator Adam Smith and identified $100B+ in 2025 losses. Status: relaunched outside government. Source: NESDIS-NOTICE-2025, MARKETPLACE-NOAA-2025-05-09, CNN-NOAA-2025-10-22, RDP-2026-05-12.

– Climate.gov (NOAA): The 10-person team maintaining the climate-communication site was notified on May 31, 2025, that the contract funding their positions was terminated. Initial probationary firings — including 13-year program manager Rebecca Lindsey and two other staff — had already occurred in February 2025 as part of the government-wide probationary purge. NOAA will no longer publish new content; the future of the site is unclear. Source: NPR-CLIMATEGOV-2025-06-12, INERTIA-NOAA-2025, RDP-2026-05-12.

– National Climate Assessment (NCA6) (USGCRP): On April 28, 2025, the Trump administration dismissed all ~400 volunteer authors, scientists, and contributors working on NCA6 (originally scheduled for late 2027/2028 release), telling them “the scope of the [NCA] is currently being” reevaluated. The earlier NCA reports were also taken offline when USGCRP’s website was shut down (see USGCRP entry below). The NCA is the congressionally mandated quadrennial U.S. climate assessment under the 1990 Global Change Research Act. NASA later said it would host the existing reports. Source: CBS-NCA-2025-04-29, CNN-NCA-2025-04-29, WAPO-NCA-2025-04-29, RDP-2026-05-12, WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS.

– NOAA Atlas 15 (NOAA): Contracts for the climate-risk extreme-rainfall tool were paused for about a month in mid-2025 — just days after the early July 2025 Texas floods (135+ killed) — by the Commerce Department under Secretary Howard Lutnick. Funding was restored within weeks after public outcry; preliminary pilot estimates went up for peer review later in 2025, with published estimates due in 2026. Built to predict how rising temperatures will change extreme-rainfall frequency. Status: partially restored (work resumed, but delayed during a deadly flood season). Source: WAPO-ATLAS15-2025-07-16, FLOODS-ATLAS15-2025-08, ASCE-ATLAS15-2025-08-27, RDP-2026-05-12.

– U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) website — globalchange.gov: Posted a notice on June 10, 2025, saying program operations and structure were “under review”; the website became inactive on July 1–2, 2025. The site had hosted five legislatively mandated reports including the National Climate Assessments. In April 2025, the federal contract supporting the USGCRP National Coordination Office (interagency and international coordination) was canceled. NASA took over the program and said it would host preexisting reports. Created under the 1990 Global Change Research Act. Source: ABC-USGCRP-2025-07, SABIN-USGCRP-2025, CONGRESS-USGCRP-CRS, RDP-2026-05-12.

– Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD Open) (DHS Geospatial Management Office): Public access removed August 25–26, 2025; the HIFLD website and HIFLD Open portal went fully offline September 16, 2025. Some layers moved to the access-controlled HIFLD Secure, some redirect to original data providers. For two decades HIFLD Open was the authoritative free map of U.S. critical infrastructure for disaster response and community planning. The NAPSG Foundation, SeerAI (Creative Commons archive), and the Data Rescue Project have preserved copies. Source: NAPSG-HIFLD-2025, PROJGEO-HIFLD-2025, SEERAI-HIFLD, RDP-2026-05-12.

– DoD meteorological satellite data sharing (Department of Defense): Ended. Had helped meteorologists analyze hurricanes and issue early warnings using specialty-satellite data. Source: RDP-2026-05-12.

### Energy data

– U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) (DOE): Over 40% of the agency’s ~350-person workforce had left or accepted buyouts by mid-2025 — roughly a third via voluntary buyouts; another 100+ departures followed later DOGE-driven resignation offers. On April 16, 2025, Office of Energy Analysis assistant administrator Angelina LaRose informed staff in an internal email that the 2025 International Energy Outlook — the biennial global energy trends report — would not be released, citing “loss of key resources.” EIA data materially affects global oil prices. Source: ARGUS-EIA-2025, PROPUBLICA-EIA-2025, ENERGYINTEL-EIA-2025, RDP-2026-05-12.

### Education data

– NAEP / Nation’s Report Card scope reductions (Department of Education / NAGB): The 2026 administration ran, but the assessment ran short of money on March 31, 2026: ETS (which writes and reviews NAEP items) put item-development staff on leave, and work on the student/teacher digital platform paused. The National Assessment Governing Board voted on April 21, 2025, to cut multiple future assessments over eight years, including state-level reading and math for 12th graders (scheduled 2032) and the national long-term trend assessment (scheduled 2029). The administration canceled the long-running NAEP test for 17-year-olds in February 2025. Source: HECHINGER-NAEP-2026, K12DIVE-NAEP-2025, EDWEEK-NAEP-2025.

### Immigration and detention data

– ICE detention facility disclosure (DHS/ICE): In February 2026, ICE was detaining people in 456 facilities but acknowledged using only 220 on its website — excluding ~160 hold/staging sites and detention in at least 277 medical facilities used over 17 years. Most arrest, detention, and removal numbers asserted by the administration were not backed by published data; some data has been released only after FOIA litigation. Source: VERA-ICE-2026-03, AIC-DETENTION-2026, DEPORTATION-DATA-PROJECT-2026.

### Cross-cutting platform-level removals

– Scale of removals (overall): Federal agencies removed or modified over 8,000 web pages and approximately 3,000 datasets during early 2025 following Trump executive orders. CDC alone saw 3,000+ pages altered or removed; the Census Bureau removed about 3,000 pages of research materials. Many but not all were restored after legal challenges, often with altered variables (notably gender-identity fields stripped). Source: WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS, LCCHR-2025.

– DEI and demographic disaggregation removals (multiple agencies): Pages and datasets touching diversity, equity, inclusion, gender identity, race-equity supplements, and LGBTQ+ public health were taken down or modified across CDC, Census, DOE, FDA, and EPA. Source: WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS, NPR-ERASURE-2025-03.

– .gov website decommissioning (GSA): Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following a GSA-led review announced in July 2025. Source: FEDNEWS-GSA-2025-07.

– Data Rescue Project archive (preservation, not suppression — for reference): A coalition of 500+ volunteers has assembled a 16TB archive of more than 311,000 datasets (complete archive of federal public datasets linked from data.gov as of 2024–2025) and a portal listing 2,970 individual datasets rescued from 97 government offices. Source: DATARESCUE.

Citations

Cite by short-id in the tracker above (e.g. RDP-2026-05-12).

Short-id Source URL
RDP-2026-05-12 Revolving Door Project, Trump’s War on Public Data tracker (May 12, 2026 snapshot) — basis for the original document https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/trump-trackers/
RDP-DISPATCHES-2026 Revolving Door Project, Dispatches From Trump’s War on Information (BLS edition, April 2, 2026; The American Prospect) https://prospect.org/2026/04/02/dispatches-from-trumps-war-on-information-bls/
RDP-RIGHTWING Revolving Door Project, Right Wing Animus for Public Data https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/right-wing-animus-for-public-data/
CBPP-2026 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Federal Data Are Disappearing as Statistical Agencies Face Budget Cuts and Political Pressure https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/federal-data-are-disappearing-as-statistical-agencies-face-budget
KFF-2025 KFF, Disappearing Federal Data: Implications for Addressing Health Disparities https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/disappearing-federal-data-implications-for-addressing-health-disparities/
LCCHR-2025 The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Disappearing Data: Why We Must Stop Trump’s Attempts to Erase Our Communities https://civilrights.org/blog/disappearing-data-why-we-must-stop-trumps-attempts-to-erase-our-communities/
WIKI-RESOURCE-REMOVALS Wikipedia, 2025 United States Government Online Resource Removals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_government_online_resource_removals
NSARCHIVE-2026-03-30 National Security Archive, A Disappearing Data Chronology (March 30, 2026) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhibit/climate-change-transparency-project/2026-03-30/disappearing-data-chronology
NSARCHIVE-2025-09-30 National Security Archive, Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
TULANE-GUIDE Tulane University Libraries, Finding Government Data Removed by the 2025 Presidential Administration https://libguides.tulane.edu/gov_data_2025
DATARESCUE Data Rescue Project — portal and 16TB archive https://www.datarescueproject.org/
EWA-DATA Education Writers Association, Federal Data: Its Manipulation and Removal Under Trump Admin https://ewa.org/data-research-tips/federal-data-its-manipulation-and-removal-under-trump-admin
PBS-BLS-2025-08 PBS NewsHour, Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner after dismal employment report https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-seeks-to-fire-bureau-of-labor-statistics-director-after-release-of-weak-jobs-report
ITEP-BLS-2025 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Trump’s Firing of BLS Commissioner is Part of Larger Erosion of Federal Data Infrastructure https://itep.org/trumps-firing-of-bls-commissioner-is-part-of-larger-erosion-of-federal-data-infrastructure/
NEWSWEEK-GDP-2026 Newsweek, Trump Canceling GDP Report Comes Under Scrutiny https://www.newsweek.com/trump-canceled-gdp-report-scrutiny-11103747
TNR-GDP-2026 The New Republic, Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures https://newrepublic.com/post/203619/donald-trump-cancels-release-gdp-economic-report
NATION-FESAC-2026 The Nation, How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/trump-manipulate-economic-data-fesac/
NPR-CENSUS-2026-02 NPR, Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census (Feb 5, 2026) https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/nx-s1-5584085/census-citizenship-question
NPR-CENSUS-NOISE-2026-06 NPR, A Trump push to cut ‘statistical noise’ could mean less data from the Census Bureau (June 12, 2026) https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5855734/census-bureau-data-differential-privacy
CENSUS-PROJECT-2026-02 The Census Project, Trump administration cuts number of sites for testing the 2030 census, focusing on the South (Feb 2, 2026) https://thecensusproject.org/2026/02/02/protectacs/
CEPR-CENSUS Center for Economic and Policy Research, Trump Census Test Changes Threaten Accuracy of the 2030 Census https://cepr.net/publications/the-trump-administrations-catastrophic-census-proposal/
HECHINGER-NAEP-2026 The Hechinger Report, NAEP, the Nation’s Report Card, was supposed to be safe. It’s not. https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-naep-not-safe/
K12DIVE-NAEP-2025 K-12 Dive, Federal cuts reduce scope of Nation’s Report Card https://www.k12dive.com/news/NAEP-nations-report-card-assessment-changes-2033-nagb-vote/746821/
EDWEEK-NAEP-2025 Education Week, Fewer Subjects, Students, Data Points: Feds to Scale Back NAEP https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/fewer-subjects-students-data-points-feds-to-scale-back-naep/2025/04
CEN-RECOVER-2025 Chemical & Engineering News, NIH cancels RECOVER grants for long COVID projects https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/NIH-cancels-RECOVER-grants-long/103/web/2025/03
SICKTIMES-RECOVER-2025 The Sick Times, RECOVER grants for Long COVID pathobiology research are among those cut under new NIH directive (March 27, 2025) https://thesicktimes.org/2025/03/27/recover-grants-for-long-covid-pathobiology-research-are-among-those-cut-under-new-nih-directive/
SICKTIMES-TLC-2026-01 The Sick Times, New RECOVER-TLC trials won’t enroll until summer (Jan 23, 2026) https://thesicktimes.org/2026/01/23/new-recover-tlc-trials-wont-enroll-until-summer-nearly-two-years-after-the-programs-launch/
EDF-GHG-FOIA-2025 Environmental Defense Fund, EPA Releases U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory in Response to EDF FOIA Request https://www.edf.org/media/epa-releases-us-greenhouse-gas-inventory-response-edf-foia-request
VERA-ICE-2026-03 Vera Institute, Ten Things Vera’s ICE Detention Trends Dashboard Reveals About ICE Detention Through March 2026 https://www.vera.org/news/ten-things-veras-ice-detention-trends-dashboard-reveals-about-ice-detention-through-march-2026
AIC-DETENTION-2026 American Immigration Council, Immigration Detention Is Harsher and Less Accountable Than Ever https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/report-trump-immigration-detention-2026/
DEPORTATION-DATA-PROJECT-2026 Deportation Data Project, One Year of Immigration Enforcement Under the Second Trump Administration https://deportationdata.org/analysis/immigration-enforcement-first-year.html
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FEDNEWS-GSA-2025-07 Federal News Network, Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following GSA review (July 2025) https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/07/agencies-plan-to-decommission-hundreds-of-gov-websites-following-gsa-review/
HRW-2025-02-07 Human Rights Watch, US Information Erasure Hurts Everyone (Feb 7, 2025) https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/07/us-information-erasure-hurts-everyone
SUNLIGHT Sunlight Foundation, Tracking U.S. government data removed from the Internet during the Trump administration https://sunlightfoundation.com/tracking-u-s-government-data-removed-from-the-internet-during-the-trump-administration/
USDA-FOODSEC-2025-09-20 USDA press release, USDA Terminates Redundant Food Insecurity Survey (Sept 20, 2025) https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/09/20/usda-terminates-redundant-food-insecurity-survey
CIVILEATS-FOODSEC-2025-09-22 Civil Eats, USDA Cancels “One of a Kind” Report on Food Insecurity https://civileats.com/2025/09/22/usda-cancels-one-of-a-kind-report-on-food-insecurity/
NPR-FOODSEC-2025-09-22 NPR, USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5549115/usda-food-insecurity-survey-hunger
STATNEWS-PRAMS-2025-04-01 STAT News, PRAMS maternal mortality database in limbo as CDC staff placed on leave https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/prams-maternal-mortality-cdc-layoffs/
AZPHA-PRAMS-2025-03-11 Arizona Public Health Association, CDC Suspends Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Data Collection https://azpha.org/2025/03/11/cdc-suspends-pregnancy-risk-assessment-monitoring-system-prams-data-collection/
COMMONWEALTH-PRAMS-2026-01 Commonwealth Fund, What Is the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, and Why Is It at Risk? (Jan 2026) https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/explainer/2026/jan/what-is-prams-and-why-is-it-at-risk
SAMHSA-DAWN-2025 SAMHSA CBHSQ Data — DAWN program page (notes discontinuation effective June 13, 2025) https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/dawn-drug-abuse-warning-network
NPR-NIOSH-2025-05-14 NPR, NIOSH rehires many workers, but program cuts remain (May 14, 2025) https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5398092/niosh-reinstates-occupational-health-workers
HEALTHCAREDIVE-NIOSH-2025 Healthcare Dive, HHS reverses layoffs at CDC’s work safety research division https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/hhs-rescinds-niosh-layoffs-cdc/809584/
FEDNEWS-NIOSH-2026-01 Federal News Network, HHS reinstates all laid-off employees at workplace safety agency NIOSH (Jan 2026) https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/01/hhs-reinstates-all-laid-off-employees-at-workplace-safety-agency-niosh/
NPR-NSDUH-2025-05-29 NPR, Trump and RFK Jr. fired the team that has tracked Americans’ drug use for decades https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5407849/samhsa-nsduh-trump-rfk-jr-hhs-cuts
GLANTZ-NYTS-2025-04-07 Stanton Glantz blog, Trump gives Big Tobacco a big gift: He killed the National Youth Tobacco Survey… https://profglantz.com/2025/04/07/trump-gives-big-tobacco-a-big-gift-he-killed-the-national-youth-tobacco-survey/
TOBACCOREPORTER-NYTS-2026-03 Tobacco Reporter, FDA Releases Raw NYTS Data Without Comment (March 11, 2026) https://tobaccoreporter.com/2026/03/11/fda-releases-raw-nyts-data-without-comment/
KFFHEALTH-CDC-HIV-2025 KFF Health News, CDC Staffing Upheaval Disrupts HIV Projects and Wastes Money, Researchers Say https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/hiv-research-cdc-staffing-upheaval-wastes-money/
NPR-CDC-2025-06-12 NPR, More than 400 CDC staff may be called back to work after being laid off in April https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5430893/cdc-employees-layoffs-revoked-hhs-hepatitis-lab
CIDRAP-CDC-H5N1-2025-07 CIDRAP, CDC streamlines H5N1 avian flu reporting (July 2025) https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/cdc-streamlines-h5n1-avian-flu-reporting
EELP-EJSCREEN-2025 Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program, EJScreen Removed From EPA Website https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/epa-added-environmental-health-indicators-to-ejscreen/
EDGI-EJSCREEN-2025 Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, EPA Removes EJScreen from Its Website https://envirodatagov.org/epa-removes-ejscreen-from-its-website/
UTILITYDIVE-EJSCREEN-2025 Utility Dive, EPA to end environmental justice programs, monitoring tools https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ejscreen-environmental-justice-programs-terminated-epa-zeldin-trump/742532/
EELP-FEMA-FRI Harvard EELP, FEMA Removed Future Risk Index https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/rollback-fema-removed-future-risk-index/
FASTCO-FEMA-2025 Fast Company, Trump removed an online tool that predicts your climate risk. Rogue data scientists rebuilt it https://www.fastcompany.com/91294411/trump-removed-an-online-tool-that-predicts-your-climate-risk-rogue-data-scientists-rebuilt-it
FEDREG-GHGRP-2025-09-16 Federal Register, Reconsideration of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (Sept 16, 2025) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/16/2025-17923/reconsideration-of-the-greenhouse-gas-reporting-program
EPA-GHGRP-PROPOSAL-2025 EPA press release, EPA Releases Proposal to End the Burdensome, Costly Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, Saving up to $2.4 Billion https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-releases-proposal-end-burdensome-costly-greenhouse-gas-reporting-program-saving-24
NESDIS-NOTICE-2025 NOAA NESDIS, Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters — 2025 Notice of Changes https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/documents-reports/notice-of-changes/2025-notice-of-changes/billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters
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NPR-CLIMATEGOV-2025-06-12 NPR, A popular climate website will be hobbled, after Trump administration eliminates entire staff https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5431660/climate-us-government-website-changes
INERTIA-NOAA-2025 The Inertia, NOAA Staff Responsible for Publishing Educational Climate-Focused Content Fired https://www.theinertia.com/environment/noaa-staff-climate-focused-content-fired/
CBS-NCA-2025-04-29 CBS News, Trump administration dismisses nearly 400 scientists working on congressionally mandated national climate report https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-climate-assessment-report-scientists-fired/
CNN-NCA-2025-04-29 CNN, Trump administration dismisses all authors of major climate report https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/climate/trump-dismisses-climate-report-authors/index.html
WAPO-NCA-2025-04-29 Washington Post, Trump administration dismisses National Climate Assessment authors https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/29/trump-nca-climate-change/
WAPO-ATLAS15-2025-07-16 Washington Post, NOAA was developing a way to predict extreme rainfall — until Trump officials stopped it (July 16, 2025) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/16/noaa-rainfall-predictions-climate-change/
FLOODS-ATLAS15-2025-08 Association of State Floodplain Managers, After Brief Delay, NOAA’s Atlas 15 Project Moves Ahead https://www.floods.org/news-views/policy-matters/after-brief-delay-noaas-atlas-15-project-moves-ahead/
ASCE-ATLAS15-2025-08-27 ASCE, Good news for engineers: Atlas 15 – and its rainfall outlook – back on track (Aug 27, 2025) https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/article/2025/08/27/good-news-for-engineers-atlas-15-and-its-rainfall-outlook-back-on-track
ABC-USGCRP-2025-07 ABC News, Trump administration shutters major federal climate website https://abcnews.com/US/trump-administration-shutters-major-federal-climate-website/story?id=123389318
SABIN-USGCRP-2025 Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, USGCRP Removes Sections on Climate Change from its Website https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/usgcrp-removes-sections-climate-change-its-website
CONGRESS-USGCRP-CRS Congressional Research Service, U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP): Overview and Considerations for Congress (R48478) https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48478
NAPSG-HIFLD-2025 NAPSG Foundation, HIFLD Open to be discontinued by Sept. 30, 2025 https://www.napsgfoundation.org/hifld_open/
PROJGEO-HIFLD-2025 Project Geospatial, The Rise, Power, and Uncertain Future of America’s Open Infrastructure Data https://projectgeospatial.org/geospatial-frontiers/the-rise-power-and-uncertain-future-of-americas-open-infrastructure-data
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ARGUS-EIA-2025 Argus Media, US EIA will not release international outlook in 2025 https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-insights/latest-market-news/2685395-us-eia-will-not-release-international-outlook-in-2025
PROPUBLICA-EIA-2025 ProPublica, Energy Information Agency Data Scrapped as DOGE, Trump Hobble Agency https://www.propublica.org/article/the-latest-trump-and-doge-casualty-energy-data
ENERGYINTEL-EIA-2025 Energy Intelligence, US Gas Industry Alarmed by EIA Staff Cuts, Scrapped Report https://www.energyintel.com/00000196-b19c-d691-af97-bbdd32df0000

Changelog

  • 2026-06-17 (a) — Initial consolidation: Merged Revolving Door Project data with additional findings from NSARCHIVE, CBPP, KFF, LCCHR, Wikipedia, the Data Rescue Project, and contemporaneous news reporting; added Statistical agencies / Education / Immigration / Cross-cutting categories; introduced status legend, short-id citation system, and how-to-update guidance.
  • 2026-06-17 (b) — Date/agency precision pass: added specific dates and named agency offices for Household Food Security Report (Sept 20, 2025), PRAMS (Jan 2025 system shutdown / April 2025 staff leave), DAWN (June 13, 2025), NIOSH (Apr 1, 2025 RIF; Jan 2026 full reinstatement), NSDUH (Apr 1, 2025; Hoenig team), NYTS / OSH (CDC OSH eliminated; survey moved to FDA), AtlasPlus (NCHHSTP RIFs Apr 2025), CDC bird flu (Jan 2025 comms pause, July 7, 2025 cadence change), EJScreen (Feb 5, 2025), FEMA Future Risk Index (Feb 2025 takedown; Mar 2026 lawsuit dismissal), GHGRP (Sept 16, 2025 proposed rule), Billion-Dollar Disasters database (May 2025 retirement; Nov 2025 Climate Central relaunch), Climate.gov (May 31, 2025 contract termination), NCA6 (Apr 28, 2025 author dismissals), NOAA Atlas 15 (mid-2025 pause/restore), USGCRP website (July 1, 2025 closure), HIFLD Open (Aug 25 – Sept 16, 2025), EIA (40%+ workforce loss; Apr 16, 2025 IEO cancellation). Added 28 new short-id citations to the Citations table.
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