Federal data has been disappearing under Trump
peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-07-29
Summary:
"There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists....
Denice Ross, who served until December 2024 as U.S. Chief Data Scientist...is now at the Federation of American Scientists and has been tracking these changes. Her current projects to monitor and advocate for federal data under the Trump administration are America’s Data Index and America’s Essential Data.
She offered multiple examples of databases that have been altered or taken down entirely...."