Symbols of public service, civil rights, science, and shared history have rapidly disappeared from U.S. government spaces — from the dismantling of USAID, USIP, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, to the National Park Service removing a photo of Harriet Tubman from its website on slavery, to the vanishing of climate science resources, to the Pentagon removing a tribute to Iwo Jima flag raiser Ira Hayes after administration crackdowns to DEI content.
The Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. The purpose of this chronology is to keep the public—including journalists, researchers, litigators, and anyone concerned about their right to know—up to date on the current state of data and archival access across the federal government.
Compiled by Rachel Santarsiero, director of the Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project, the timeline was first published in the April 2026 issue of Passport by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). In their introduction, Passport editors Brian C. Etheridge and Silke Zoller noted the “unprecedented (in recent memory) changes to archive and data access in the United States” that had occurred in 2025 and emphasized that “archival research forms the bedrock of SHAFR members’ work.”
The National Security Archive will regularly update the Disappearing Data Chronology with any new information about the removal of government data and efforts to combat this alarming trend.
January 20, 2025: President Trump signs several Executive Orders on his first day in office, including “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” and “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” which become the bedrock for the administration’s overhaul of federal data and resources.[1]
January 20, 2025: The Federal Emergency Management Agency removes its Future Risk Index Tool, a resource for identifying impacts of climate change.[2]
January 21, 2025: The Trump administration removes access to the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool.[3]
January 22, 2025: The White House shuts down the Spanish-language version of its official website.[4]
January 24, 2025: The Trump administration fires 17 federal inspectors general at government agencies.[5]
January 24, 2025: Members of the Public Environmental Data Partners create an unofficial but functional copy of the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening tool.[6]
January 26, 2025: The Department of Justice (DOJ) removes a database from its website detailing all January 6, 2021, cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia.[7]
January 26, 2025: The U.S. Air Force removes training courses with videos of the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots.[8]
January 30, 2025: President Trump orders the “full and complete release” of all still-classified documents related to the 1963 John F. Kennedy assassination.[9]
January 31, 2025: As a result of President Trump’s directive for agencies to terminate and/or remove all programs, documents, and media that promote “gender ideology” and diversity initiatives, more than 8,000 outward-facing webpages and social media accounts across federal agencies are removed.[10]
February 2, 2025: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) website goes dark and agency staff emails are deactivated.[11]
February 4, 2025: Doctors for America files a lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) challenging the removal of health data from federal websites.[12]
February 5, 2025: 404 Media reports that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ordered employees to stop using messaging app Slack while the agency transitions to a records system not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.[13]
February 5, 2025: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removes from its website the environmental justice mapping and screening tool EJScreen.[14]
February 6, 2025: Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab Team releases a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov.[15]
February 6, 2025: The Department of Defense removes the webpage “Tackling the Climate Crisis,” which houses the agency’s Climate Resilience Portal and military tools for responding to climate change.[16]
February 7, 2025: President Trump fires National Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan.[17]
February 10, 2025: The National Security Agency deletes websites and internal network content that contain any of the 27 words currently banned by the Trump administration.[18]
February 11, 2025: U.S. District Judge John Bates orders the OPM and HHS to restore public access to health-related webpage and datasets.[19]
February 11, 2025: A media coalition reports that evidence used at the sentencing for a rioter charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has “disappeared” from government websites. In response, D.C. District chief judge James Boasberg orders the government to halt any removal of any video or court records related to January 6.[20]
February 14, 2025: U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson blocks the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from continuing mass firings of employees and prohibits the Trump administration from destroying or removing any of the CFPB’s data collections.[21]
February 14, 2025: National Archives Deputy Archivist William Bosanko and Inspector General Brett M. Baker announce their resignations.[22]
February 18, 2025: The DOJ removes its “Not One More Report” on violence against Native American women.[23]
February 18, 2025: The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, MA closes indefinitely, then reopens, amid chaos from federal cuts.[24]
February 19, 2025: President Trump signs Executive Order “Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy” to cut the non-statutory components of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), Presidio Trust, the Inter-American Foundation, and the United States African Development Foundation.[25]
February 20, 2025: The DOJ deletes its National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, an inventory for tracking federal police misconduct.[26]
February 22, 2025: The Department of Homeland Security removes hundreds of investigative records by the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.[27]
February 24, 2025: The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York files a lawsuit against the Department of Agriculture over removal of climate-related materials from its website.[28]
February 26, 2025: The Pentagon announces it will remove news and feature articles promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.[29]
February 27, 2025: The DOJ begins to release files of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein files but says “there’s little new information.”[30]
February 28, 2025: In a notice to the Federal Register, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moves to eliminate public comment on HHS decisions.[31]
February 28, 2025: The White House reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigations has returned materials seized at Mar-a-Lago to President Trump.[32]
March 8, 2025: Arlington National Cemetery begins wiping histories of Black, Hispanic, and women veterans from its website.[33]
March 10, 2025: Acting Executive Secretary of USAID orders the destruction of classified records and personnel files.[34]
March 10, 2025: U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper rules that DOGE is likely subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and issues a preliminary injunction requiring the preservation of documents and expedited processing of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) FOIA requests.[35]
March 12, 2025: Doctors from Harvard Medical School challenge the removal of articles from government-run website Patient Safety Network.[36]
March 12, 2025: U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan orders DOGE to turn over records and answer questions about plans to downsize federal agencies, fire employees, and suspend federal contracts.[37]
March 13, 2025: The Pentagon removes a webpage on the Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Native American who was one of the six Iwo Jima flag-raisers.[38]
March 13, 2025: An unofficial but functional copy of FEMA’s Future Risk Index Tool is shared on GitHub.[39]
March 14, 2025: President Trump signs Executive Order “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy” dismantling the United States Agency for Global Media, the parent company of U.S. news service Voice of America, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, among several other government entities.[40]
March 17, 2025: After a dramatic standoff, DOGE staff and D.C. police enter the USIP after the think tank’s president and several board members are removed days earlier.[41]
March 18, 2025: Five board members from the USIP file a lawsuit against DOGE alleging they were unlawfully removed from their positions.[42]
March 18, 2025: The Trump administration releases more than 31,000 pages from the National Archives on the 1963 John F. Kennedy assassination.[43]
March 19, 2025: U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell denies a request to block DOGE’s takeover of the USIP.[44]
March 19, 2025: The Pentagon purges or flags tens of thousands of DOD websites for removal, including content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault, cancer awareness, and suicide prevention.[45]
March 24, 2025: Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg breaks the story that he was added to a Signal group chat with several United States national security leaders about imminent military operations against the Houthis in Yemen. The political scandal is nicknamed “Signalgate” in the media.[46]
March 24, 2025: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) removes its apportionments database, a public resource the agency is statutorily required to publish of approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws.[47]
March 25, 2025: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard briefs Congress on the intelligence community’s Annual Threat Assessment, the first report of its kind to omit any mention of climate change in over a decade.[48]
March 27, 2025: Chief Judge of the U.S. D.C. District Court James E. Boasberg orders relevant agencies involved to preserve their records of the Signal group chat about sensitive military operations in Yemen.[49]
March 27, 2025: The White House sends a new “records retention policy” to DOGE to preserve Signal messages in the wake of the Signal group chat crisis.[50]
March 27, 2025: President Trump signs Executive Order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, calling on the Department of the Interior and Smithsonian Institution to remove “divisive narratives” or change any public monuments, memorials, statues, or markers that “inappropriately…include any other improper partisan ideology.”[51]
March 28, 2025: Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order staff not to release an expert assessment on measles risk.[52]
March 31, 2025: The EPA announces the closure of its National Environmental Museum and Education Center.[53]
March 31, 2025: Members of DOGE enter the Woodrow Wilson Center's offices and begin taking over its systems. The following day, the center's president, Mark Green, resigns.[54]
April 1, 2025: Non-profit American Oversight launches an investigation into the Trump administration’s use of the Signal messaging app for official government business.[55]
April 3, 2025: Almost all employees at the Wilson Center are placed on leave.[56]
April 6, 2025: The National Park Service removes a photograph of Harriet Tubman and content about slavery from its webpage about the Underground Railroad. The changes are first reported by The Washington Post on April 6, but screenshots from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine demonstrate that the change occurred sometime around March 19, 2025.[57]
April 8, 2025: The National Park Service restores its original webpage on the Underground Railroad with photos of Harriet Tubman and segments on slavery.[58]
April 8, 2025: CREW sues OMB and its director Russell Vought for removing its apportionments database.[59]
April 15, 2025: In a court filing, the Central Intelligence Agency reports that all messages from the leaked Signal chat group had been deleted from the phone of Director John Ratcliffe.[60]
April 16, 2025: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces a list of datasets regarding ocean monitoring are scheduled to be removed in May.[61]
April 18, 2025: The Trump administration releases 100,000 pages of records about the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.[62]
April 23, 2025: American Oversight sues DOGE and other Trump officials for violating the Federal Records Act over the defendants' use of Signal and other messaging platforms.[63]
April 24, 2025: The Trump administration announces it is cancelling the lease for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan.[64]
April 25, 2025: A memo sent to USAID employees announces that staff must complete “various exit tasks,” including the return of government equipment ‘which will be remotely wiped.”[65]
April 25, 2025: USA Today wins a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the DOJ, forcing the agency to release records of deaths in federal prisons.[66]
April 30, 2025: The White House terminates the entire membership of the State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee, the group that oversees the declassification of government records related to U.S. foreign relations.[67]
May 7, 2025: The National Archives releases an additional 60,000 documents about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.[68]
May 8, 2025: NOAA announces it will no longer update its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database.[69]
May 12, 2025: The Department of Agriculture obeys a court order to restore previously deleted climate data.[70]
May 20, 2025: The Washington State Medical Association files a lawsuit against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and HHS over the removal of public health resources and federal websites.[71]
May 21, 2025: U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton rules that President Trump’s firings of two Democratic members on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board are unlawful.[72]
May 21, 2025: The DOJ files an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to block an effort to release DOGE records to CREW.[73]
May 21, 2025: The White House removes official transcripts of President Donald Trump’s public remarks from its government website, replacing them with selected videos of his public appearances.[74]
June 6, 2025: The Supreme Court blocks a lower court order granting CREW limited discovery into whether DOGE is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.[75]
June 10, 2025: In a speech at Fort Bragg, President Trump announces that the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals but later changed would be restored.[76]
June 13, 2025: Internal documents obtained by the New York Times reveal that the Interior Department instructed National Park Service staff to post QR codes and signs at all 433 national parks, monuments, and historic sites asking for visitors to flag “inappropriate content” that should be changed.[77]
June 18, 2025: ProPublica sues the Food and Drug Administration in federal court over withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs.[78]
June 30, 2025: The U.S. Global Change Research Program website is dismantled, and with it all five previously published National Climate Assessments are deleted.[79]
July 1, 2025: NOAA’s website climate.gov stops publishing new content after its staff is fired at the end of May.[80]
July 3, 2025: U.S. District Judge John D. Bates rules that OPM and HHS must restore affected HHS federal websites.[81]
July 7, 2025: Documents obtained by the Federal News Network show that hundreds of federal agency websites are being targeted for elimination following a governmentwide review by the General Services Administration.[82]
July 11, 2025: The Intercept reports that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement stopped reporting in February the number of transgender people who have disappeared from ICE records despite congressional reporting requirements.[83]
July 21, 2025: U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan rules that OMB must restore its apportionments database.[84]
July 21, 2025: The National Archives releases more than 6,000 documents related to the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.[85]
July 22, 2025: Two judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rule in a 2-1 vote that agency Reduction-In-Force plans do not have to be released to the public.[86]
July 31, 2025: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History temporarily removes a placard that references President Donald Trump’s two impeachments. Several days later, the museum reinstalls the placard with several changes to the prior text.[87]
August 6, 2025: Parts of the U.S. Constitution are removed from the Library of Congress’ “Constitution Annotated” website due to an “unspecified coding error.”[88]
August 9, 2025: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel votes 3-0 for OMB to restore its apportionments database in a victory for CREW.[89]
August 12, 2025: The State Department releases its annual Human Rights Report and removes references to gender-based violence and environmental justice.[90]
August 18, 2025: The State Department shuts down its Human Rights Reporting Gateway, an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units.[91]
August 19, 2025: OMB restores access to its apportionments database following the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision.[92]
August 27, 2025: After the Trump administration cuts funding for public broadcasting, the Public Broadcasting Service documentary series “American Experience” suspends production and lays off its staff.[93]
August 29, 2025: Kari Lake, acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announces the agency will eliminate over 500 jobs at Voice of America and other government-funded broadcasts.[94]
September 2, 2025: The House Oversight Government Reform Committee releases 33,295 pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.[95]
September 2, 2025: The Washington State Medical Association reaches a settlement in its lawsuit against Robert F. Kennedy Jr and the HHS.[96]
September 12, 2025: The EPA proposes to end its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program which requires industry to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions to the agency.[97]
September 16, 2025: The Trump administration orders the National Park Service to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans.[98]
September 19, 2023: CREW asserts in a court filing that OMB circumvented a court order that requires the agency to publish its apportionments database.[99]
September 20, 2025: The Department of Agriculture announces it will end its “Household Food Security Report,” a longstanding annual survey that provides data on the lack of access to adequate nutrition for low-income Americans.[100]
September 27, 2025: The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency informs Congress it will cease “statutorily mandated functions and furlough 25 permanent employees” after OMB informs the watchdog group it will cut off its funding on October 1, 2025.[101]
September 29, 2025: U.S. D.C. District Judge Royce Lamberth rules that the U.S. Agency for Global Media must not proceed with its Reduction-In-Force ordered by the Trump administration.[102]
September 30, 2025: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces a new directive overhauling the Defense Department’s equal opportunity office and the inspectors general for the military services, two channels that allow troops to file whistleblower complaints.[103]
October 1, 2025: Voice of America ceases broadcasting after the government shuts down, two days after a judge orders the Trump administration to reinstate workers and restore programming.[104]
October 27, 2025: The Department of Agriculture removes from its website the September 2025 plan to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).[105]
October 29, 2025: The DOJ removes all references to the January 6 Capitol attack in a revised sentencing memo for Taylor Franklin Taranto, a former January 6 defendant pardoned by President Trump who was later convicted of weapons and hoax charges after being arrested near former President Obama’s home in 2023.[106]
November 13, 2025: The Washington Post reports that the State Department erased 15 pages related to the 1983 NATO exercise known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare from its digital Foreign Relations of the United States series.[107]
November 18, 2025: After several months, the House and Senate pass a bill directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The next day, President Trump signs the bill.[108]
December 5, 2025: U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith grants DOJ’s request to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records.[109]
December 12, 2025: The OPM and HHS file a compliance report confirming that all 195 websites covered in the Doctors for America lawsuit have been restored.[110]
December 16, 2025: OMB Director Russell Vought announces the National Science Foundation will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, a key weather and climate research center.[111]
December 18, 2025: Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley and OMB Director Russell Vought send a letter to the head of the Smithsonian Institution demanding the museum turn over documentation on “current exhibition descriptions, draft plans for upcoming shows, upcoming programming materials, and internal guidelines used in exhibition development.”[112]
January 2, 2026: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s largest research library at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD closes.[113]
January 11, 2026: The National Portrait Gallery removes references to President Trump’s impeachment after the museum replaces his official portrait.[114]
January 15, 2026: The Trump Administration removes the United States from the Open Government Partnership, the international organization aimed at improving government transparency.[115]
January 22, 2026: The National Park Service removes exhibits depicting slavery and George Washington's treatment of enslaved people at the President's House in Philadelphia.[116]
[1] White House Press Release, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” January 20, 2025, and White House Press Release, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” January 20, 2025.
[2] Victoria Heath, “The online climate tool that Trump removed, but data scientists have now rebuilt,” Geographical, March 13, 2025.
[3] “Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It,” Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, January 31, 2025.
[4] Fernanda Figueroa, “Trump administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media,” PBS News, January 22, 2025.
[5] Zeke Miller, Eric Tucker, and Will Wiessert, “Trump uses mass firing to remove independent inspectors general at a series of agencies,” Associated Press, January 25, 2025.
[6] “Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It.”
[7] Donie O'Sullivan and Katelyn Polantz, “Trump pardoned the January 6 convicts. Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters’ crimes from the internet,” CNN, January 26, 2025.
[8] Tara Copp, “More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots,” Associated Press, January 26, 2025.
[9] Philip Shenon, “The Iffy Transparency of Trump’s Order on the JFK Assassination Files,” Politico, January 30, 2025.
[10] Ethan Singer, “Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday,” The New York Times, February 2, 2025.
[11] Rebecca Heilweil, “USAID website goes dark, staff emails deactivated amid DOGE takeover, source says,” FedScoop, February 2, 2025.
[12] Doctors for America et al. v. Office of Personnel Management et al., O’Neill Institute Healthcare Litigation Tracker.
[13] Jason Koebler, “DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA,” 404 Media, February 5, 2025.
[14] “EPA Removes EJScreen from its Website,” Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, February 12, 2025.
[15] “Announcing the Data.gov Archive,” Harvard Library Innovation Lab Team, February 6, 2025.
[16] Rachel Santarsiero, “Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation,” The National Security Archive, September 30, 2025.
[17] Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, “Trump fires National Archives chief,” Politico, February 7, 2025.
[18] “The NSA’s ‘Big Delete’,” Popular Information, February 10, 2025.
[19] Michael Kunzelman, “Judge tells agencies to restore webpages and data removed after Trump’s executive order,” AP News, February 11, 2025.
[20] Tom Dreisbach, “Jan. 6 video evidence has ‘disappeared’ from public access, media coalition says,” NPR, February 12, 2025.
[21] Michael Stratford, “Judge temporarily halts mass firings at CFPB, preserves agency data,” Politico, February 14, 2025.
[22] Dan Friedman and David Corn, “National Archives Head Resigns as Trump Takes Control of Records,” Mother Jones, February 14, 2025 and Meagan Vazquez, “Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out,” The Washington Post, February 16, 2025.
[23] Jennifer Bendery, “Trump’s DOJ Erases Report on Violence Against Native American Women,” HuffPost, February 18, 2025.
[24] Anumita Kaur, Matt Viser, Kara Voght, Jacqueline Alemany and Sophia Nguyen, “JFK Library closes indefinitely, then reopens, amid chaos from federal cuts,” The Washington Post, February 18, 2025.
[25] Executive Order 14217, “Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” The Federal Register, February 19, 2025.
[26] Kanishka Singh, “Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct,” Reuters, February 20, 2025.
[27] Nick Schwellenbach, “DHS Removed 100+ Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Records,” Project on Government Oversight, April 21, 2025.
[28] Karen Zraick, “Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites,” The New York Times, February 24, 2025.
[29] Memorandum for Senior Pentagon Leadership from Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Sean Parnell, “Subject: Digital Content Refresh,” Department of Defense, February 26, 2025.
[30] Jeremy Roebuck, “Trump DO releases some Epstein files, says there’s little new info,” The Washington Post, February 27, 2025.
[31] Isabella Cueto, “RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment on HHS decision,” STAT News, February 28, 2025.
[32] Perry Stein, “FBI returns materials seized at Mar-a-Lago to Trump, White House says,” The Washington Post, February 28, 2025.
[33] Tom Bowman and Ayana Archie,“Arlington National Cemetery stops highlighting some historical figures on its website,” NPR, March 14, 2025.
[34] “DON’T SHRED ON ME!,” The National Security Archive, March 12, 2025.
[35] “Judge rules DOGE likely subject to FOIA, must give CREW documents,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, March 10, 2025.
[36] “Doctors Challenge Removal of Their Patient Safety Research from Federal Website,” American Civil Liberties Union, March 12, 2025.
[37] Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, “Judge orders DOGE and Elon Musk to turn over documents, answer written questions,” Politico, March 12, 2025.
[38] John Swaine and Alex Horton, “Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser,” The Washington Post, March 17, 2025.
[39] Victoria Heath, “The online climate tool that Trump removed, but data scientists have now rebuilt,” Geographical, March 13, 2025.
[40] David Enrich, “As Voice of America Goes Dark, Some Broadcasts Are Replaced by Music,” The New York Times, March 16, 2025.
[41] Michele Kelemen, “DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help,” NPR, March 18, 2025.
[42] Emily Feng and Ryan Lucas, “Judge declines to immediately reverse Trump moves at U.S. Institute of Peace,” NPR, March 19, 2025.
[43] Ian Shapira, Clara Ence Morse, Aaron Schaffer, Sarah Cahlan and Evan Hill, “What’s in the JFK files? Trump administration releases assassination docs,” The Washington Post, March 18, 2025.
[44] Feng and Lucas, “Judge declines to immediately reverse Trump moves at U.S. Institute of Peace.”
[45] Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, and Oren Liebermann, “Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention,” CNN, March 19, 2025.
[46] Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans,” The Atlantic, March 24, 2025, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/
[47] Paul M. Krawzak, “White House scraps public spending database,” Roll Call, March 24, 2025.
[48] “2025 Annual Threat Assessment First in Over a Decade to Omit Climate Change,” Center for Climate and Security, March 26, 2025.
[49] Abigail Hauslohner and Olivia George, “Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Signal chat about Yemen military operation,” The Washington Post, March 27, 2025.
[50] Kyle Cheney, “White House to DOGE employees: Preserve your Signal records,” Politico, March 27.
[51] White House Press Release, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” March 27, 2025.
[52] Patricia Callahan, “The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations,” ProPublica, March 28, 2025.
[53] Press Release, “EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Announces Closure of $4M Biden-EPA Museum, Saving Over $600,000 Taxpayer Funds Annually,” Environmental Protection Agency , March 31, 2025.
[54] Aishvarya Kavi and Edward Wong, “Workers Forced to Leave Foreign Policy Center as Trump Presses Shutdown,” The New York Times, April 3, 2025.
[55] “American Oversight Launches Investigation into Trump Administration’s Widespread Use of Signal,” American Oversight, April 1, 2025.
[56] Aishvarya Kavi and Edward Wong, “Workers Forced to Leave Foreign Policy Center as Trump Presses Shutdown,” The New York Times, April 3, 2025.
[57]Jon Swaine and Jeremy B. Merrill, “Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad,” The Washington Post, April 6, 2025 and Internet Archive Wayback Machine screenshot comparing January 21, 2025, and March 19, 2015 of the National Park Service’s Underground Railroad webpage.
[58] Clarissa-Jan Lim, “National Park Service restores Harriet Tubman references to Underground Railroad webpage,” MS Now, April 8, 2025.
[59] “CREW sues Trump administration for hiding federal spending information from the public,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, April 8, 2025.
[60] Julian E. Barnes, “C.I.A. Director’s Messages in Leaked Chat Were Deleted, Agency Says,” The New York Times, April 15, 2025.
[61] Chris Baraniuk, “Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion,” BBC, April 23, 2025.
[62] Tom Jackman, “RFK assassination files released by Trump administration,” The Washington Post, April 18, 2025.
[63] “American Oversight Sues DOGE, Trump Officials for Violating Federal Records Act,” American Oversight, April 23, 2025.
[64] Andrew Freedman, “Trump administration cancels top NASA climate lab’s lease at Columbia University,” CNN, April 24, 2025.
[65] Rebecca Heilweil, “USAID wiping and disposing devices, including iPhones and MacBooks, memo says,” FedScoop, April 25, 2025.
[66] Gina Barton and Austin Fast, “USA TODAY won a lawsuit to get hidden data on prison deaths. Here’s what it shows,” USA TODAY, April 25, 2025.
[67] Steve Inskeep, “Trump fires historians who put together unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy,” NPR, June 3, 2025.
[68] Julian E. Barnes, “National Archives Releases More Robert F. Kennedy Files,” The New York Times, May 7, 2025.
[69] Scott Dance, “NOAA will stop updating database tracking costliest weather disasters,” The Washington Post, May 8, 2025.
[70] Karen Zraick, “Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back,” The New York Times, May 12, 2025.
[71] Ganny Belloni, “Doctors, Nurses Sue HHS Over Deletion of Public Health Data,” Bloomberg Law, May 20, 2025.
[72] Alfred Ng, “Trump illegally fired surveillance watchdog agency’s Democrats, judge rules,” Politico, May 21, 2025.
[73] Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, “Trump administration asks Supreme Court to keep DOGE records secret,” Politico, May 21, 2025.
[74] Peter Nicholas, Megan Shannon and Megan Lebowitz, “White House purges transcripts of Trump’s remarks from its website,” NBC News, May 21, 2025.
[75] “Supreme Court Again Sides with Secrecy, Undermines Transparency in DOGE Decision,” American Oversight, June 6, 2025.
[76] Chris Cameron, “Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names,” The New York Times, June 10, 2025.
[77] Lisa Friedman, “National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans’,” The New York Times, June 13, 2025.
[78] Katherine Dailey and Jessie Nguyen, “ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs,” ProPublica, June 18, 2025.
[79] Rebecca Dzombak, “National Climate Report Website Goes Dark,” The New York Times, July 1, 2025.
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