Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge

"For months, the research community has been racing to download and store thousands of demographic data sets the government wants to delete because they don’t align with the Trump administration’s ideological views....

Over the past five months, more than 3,000 taxpayer-funded data sets—many congressionally mandated—collected by federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Census Bureau, have been caught in the cross fire...."