On January 29, 2025, the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ordered agencies to comply with President Trump's
executive order, "
Defending Women," which requires federal agencies to "recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male". Agencies also moved quickly to comply with the executive order "
Ending Radical Government DEI Programs" by removing forbidden terms from their websites. Census.gov went offline as it attempted to comply with the executive orders "
Reevaluating Foreign Aid" and "Defending Women". Data removal included topics related to
DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion),
long COVID,
HIV/AIDS,
vaccines,
transgender and
gender identity-related topics,
environmental justice,
emergency management, Terms have been replaced across many government web pages; "climate change" was often replaced by "climate resilience", "LGBTQ" replaced by "LGB", and "pregnant people" replaced by "pregnant women". This purge resulted in the deletion of various materials, including interviews with Black and female NASA employees, LGBTQ-related content, and two NASA-created comic books about women astronauts. More than 3,000 pages from the
Census Bureau website were removed as of February 2, primarily including articles filed under research and methodology. Public Environmental Data Project (PEDP) published a reconstruction of one of its earlier versions. In March 2025, an unknown executive order signed by President Donald Trump resulted in the NOAA
Radar Next Program Overview document being removed from NOAA servers. The NOAA maintains a list of resources and products it retires. On May 31, the entire climate.gov team was fired, likely shutting down the site. The
National Climate Assessment reports, congressionally mandated under the
Global Change Research Act of 1990, were taken offline, and the 400 scientists working on the 2027 assessment were fired.
Justice and crime websites At least 1,000 pages from the
Office of Justice Programs, a crime prevention research organization, were removed as of February 2. This included information on violence in teenage dating, and a blog post regarding grants that went toward combating
hate crimes. In March, the
Department of Justice deleted the page about a study showing that undocumented immigrants commit less crime than citizens. In September 2025, a study conducted by the
National Institute of Justice showing that
white supremacist and
far-right violence were the most common forms of terrorism and domestic violent extremism in the United States was deleted. The
Not One More Report, on missing and murdered Native Americans, disappeared from the Department of Justice's website in February 2025; the administration said that the report, mandated by Congress by the
Not Invisible Act, was removed to ensure compliance with one of Trump's executive orders.
Healthcare and social services websites Head Start, a U.S. federal aid program for low-income childcare, had over 200 pages removed as of February 2, including advice on establishing familial routines and guidance to help prevent
postpartum depression. As of February 2, nearly 150 pages had been removed from the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website. This included more than 50 press releases about using a
helpline following shootings or natural disasters. The website was launched by the Biden administration following the
overruling of Roe v. Wade. As of April 4, 2025, over 20
National Institutes of Health (NIH) data repositories displayed headers stating "This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives." These repositories contain petabytes of data that are used for public health research in diverse areas, including cancer, brain imaging, sleep studies, Alzheimer's, aging, COVID-19, and HIV. Many of the datasets cannot be archived by outside researchers because they are regulated by Data Use Agreements that must be consistent with the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In April 2025, the Trump administration removed the online hub for federal
COVID-19 resources, including COVID.gov and
COVIDtests.gov, replacing it with a
landing page promoting the
COVID-19 lab leak theory.
Other websites The Internal Revenue Service removed more than 25 pages as of February 2, including a form that private schools are required to submit annually to certify that they had not engaged in
racial discrimination. As of February 2, there were 18 pages removed from the
United States Patent and Trademark Office website, including information about veteran inventors and entrepreneurs, and a high school program teaching about
intellectual property. As of February 3, four pages from the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission have been deleted, including an overview of the commission's
equal employment opportunity and diversity initiatives. The
Association of Academies of the Spanish Language issued a joint statement criticizing the removal, noting the importance of
Spanish as the second most spoken language in the United States, especially in Puerto Rico. Signatories included the
North American and
Puerto Rican Academies of the Spanish Language. International travel advisories on the
Department of State website replaced their language on "LGBTQ+ Travelers" with language around "LGB Travelers" and removed reference to safety and other issues faced by transgender Americans in other countries. Thousand of images were reported flagged for removal by the Defense Department. Arlington National Cemetery removed dozens of pages from its website. Some identified gravesites of notable Black, Hispanic and female service members, and others included educational material. On March 18, more than 300 posts were removed from the
FTC business guidance blogs, including those reporting on lawsuits by
Lina Khan against the tech giants. On April 6, 2025,
The Washington Post reported that the National Park Service had revised a web page about the
Underground Railroad to remove a quote and image of
Harriet Tubman, and to remove the word "slavery" from the opening paragraph. Following an outcry after widespread reporting of the revisions, the changes were reverted the following day. A spokesperson for the National Park Service stated that "Changes to the Underground Railroad page on the National Park Service's website were made without approval from NPS leadership nor Department leadership". In August 2025, the government website for the
Constitution of the United States was modified, removing large parts of
Section 8 and entirely deleting
Sections 9 and
10 from
Article 1 of the document. On August 6, the
Library of Congress said the deletion of text was "due to a coding error", and was working to correct the issue. As of November 2025, the USDA has deleted its contingency plan to fund SNAP.
Datasets In January 2025, the government removed about 3,000 datasets from various platforms. == Legal responses ==