What happened to Trump's war on data?

"Six months into his presidency, however, this 'War on Data' hasn’t materialized. In fact, according to the Sunlight Foundation, which has been tracking the issue closely, just one main dataset has gone down since Inauguration Day—a database on violators of two animal protection laws, whose removal was already under consideration before Trump took office. All climate data remain online. The Environmental Protection Agency even posted an exact, fully clickable replica of its website as it stood on January 19, the last day of Obama's presidency—a step toward transparency that surprised many observers.

To Trump supporters, the false alarm proves that researchers dramatically overreacted during the transition, suspecting the worst and wasting countless hours backing up data that was never going away. The administration, they argue, is imposing a businesslike approach to government—and businesses rely on data for even small decisions.

This does not mollify all of those skeptical researchers, however: relieved as they are that their worst-case fears haven’t become a reality, they still argue that the Trump administration is chipping away at data-driven policy in other ways, such as removing references to climate change from government sites. They worry that the administration could still underfund statistical agencies or eliminate programs that collect data. And, they fear, the data could still disappear at any minute."