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Federal Health Data Takes Biggest Hit as Trump Administration Purges Nearly 400 Government Datasets
Friday, September 18, 2026
Global Biodefense staff
Global Biodefense
Exclusive: Commerce Overruled Treasury Concerns in Push to Narrow Census Count
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Josh Kovensky and Layla A. Jones
Talking Points Memo
How Trump’s Proposed Census Changes Could Impact States’ Funding—and Political Power
Friday, September 11, 2026
Chantelle Lee
TIME
Under Trump, census eyes sweeping plan to omit immigrants, race data
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Terry Tang
The Associated Press
The Fight for the Public Record
Wednesday, September 09, 2026
Merrilee Proffitt, James Jacobs, Christopher Marcum
Future Knowledge
Trump Wants the Census to Stop Collecting Race and Ethnicity Data
Friday, August 14, 2026
Natalie Alms
The Washington Sun
Trump Admin Officially Moves to Reshape National Political Power With New Changes to 2030 Census
Friday, August 14, 2026
Josh Kovensky and Layla A. Jones
Talking Points Memo
Trump administration proposes changes to census that could exclude millions
Friday, August 14, 2026
Amy B Wang
The Washington Post
Getting help to disaster survivors takes more than good weather forecasts
Friday, August 14, 2026
Terry Gerton
Federal News Network
How The Federal Data Landscape Is Changing With Denice Ross
Friday, August 14, 2026
Jeff Asher and Denice Ross
The Jeff-alytics Podcast
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Friday, August 14, 2026
Amy Qin and Flávio Pessoa
The Guardian
The EPA’s data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark
Friday, August 14, 2026
Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Grist
Former federal data officials answer the question: How many federal datasets have been terminated since January 2025?
Monday, August 10, 2026
Megan Lampros
PR Newswire
Governing in the Dark: A New Watchdog Reveals the True Cost of Lost Data
Monday, August 10, 2026
George Millen
BriefGlance.com
On the Data Dish, we’re checking the pulse of America’s public data systems
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Terry Gerton
Federal News Network
Where U.S. Government Data Is Disappearing
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Matthew Thompson, Ama Sarpomaa
New York Times
Census Bureau Quietly Scraps Plan for Improved Data Collection on Race and Ethnicity
Friday, June 26, 2026
Layla A. Jones
Talking Points Memo
Trump Has ‘Almost Completely’ Erased LGBTQ+ Data. Is Race Next?
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Natalie Alms
NOTUS
Better decisions depend on data, but only if people can actually use it
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Terry Gerton
Federal News Network
The Fight For The Public Record
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Merrilee Proffitt, James Jacobs, Christopher Marcum
Internet Archive and Authors Alliance
Federal Data, Local Impact: What Cities Need to Know
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Stephen Goldsmith
The Data-Smart City Pod
Researchers Mobilize to Defend America's Public Data Infrastructure
Monday, June 08, 2026
Mark Mather
Population Reference Bureau
The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are 5 ways it’s hurting Americans
Thursday, May 07, 2026
Amy Qin
The Guardian
America's Data Crisis: Saving Trusted Facts Is Essential to Democracy
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Joel Gurin
The Fulcrum
Availability of Federal Data: Policy Considerations for Disclosure, Preservation, and Governance
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Taylor Knoedl and Meghan Stuessy
Congressional Research Service
Trump’s Minions Have Quietly Disappeared Most Federal Data on Gender Identity
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Anna Rogers
Mother Jones
LGBTQ data is disappearing under Trump, reports find
Tuesday, March 03, 2026
Natalie Alms
Nextgov/FCW
The Federal SOGI Data Landscape Under the Second Trump Administration: One Year In Review
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Movement Advancement Project
Removal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from Federal Data Collections
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Lauren J.A. Bouton and Elana Redfield
The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law
The Future of America’s Data: Policy, Risk, and Resilience with Denice Ross
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
Jonathan Schwabish
The PolicyViz Podcast
The Trump administration's 'war on measurement' is scrubbing consequential data for Floridians
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Gabriella Paul
WUSF News
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist on Public Data Under Siege
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Jeremy Ney
American Inequality
Government’s historic role as trusted information source is under threat
Saturday, December 20, 2025
Naftali Bendavid
The Washington Post
Economic Data Dashboards Flourish to Track the Trump Effect
Friday, November 28, 2025
Molly Smith
Bloomberg
The federal data and tools that "died" this year
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Meghan McCarty Carino
Marketplace
When government data vanishes, communities pay the price
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Diane Sylvester
Editor & Publisher Magazine
Five Things You Can Do to Protect Public Data
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Mark Mather and Beth Jarosz
Population Reference Bureau
Ensuring the Future of Essential Health Data for All Americans
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE)
Data scientists perform last rites for ‘dearly departed datasets’ in 2nd Trump administration
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
Mike Schneider
The Associated Press
Trump’s Data Cuts Could Leave Nonprofits ‘Flying Blind’
Friday, October 17, 2025
Eden Stiffman
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
How to navigate the impact of manipulation and removal of federal data: Expert advice, reporting tips and resources
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Naseem S. Miller
The Journalist's Resource
What Happens When We Can’t Rely On Federal Data
Thursday, October 02, 2025
Jane Coaston
Crooked Media: What A Day
UNGA, Advise & Consent, Democratic Data
Thursday, October 02, 2025
Erin Simpson, Loren DeJonge Schulman, and Radha Iyengar
Sirens: A Bombshell Podcast
The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill
Monday, September 08, 2025
Pamela Herd
Can We Still Govern?
Preserving and Rebuilding Public Data Systems: A Framework for Funders
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Karuna Sridharan Chibber
The Center for Effective Philanthropy
How Third-Party Data Can Strengthen the Strained Federal Data Landscape
Monday, September 08, 2025
Judah Axelrod, Jeremy Seeman, and Sonia Torres Rodríguez
Urban Wire
Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Mike Schneider
The Associated Press
Government health datasets were altered without documentation, Lancet study shows
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Naseem S. Miller
The Journalist's Resource
Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it
Monday, August 18, 2025
Margaret Levenstein and John Kubale
The Conversation
Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?
Monday, July 28, 2025
Mike Schneider
The Associated Press
America’s Data Future: Towards A Roadmap for Action
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Joel Gurin
Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE)
Inside efforts to capture federal data after ‘the big takedown’
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Natalie Alms
Nextgov/FCW
These geeks are building an early warning system for disappearing government data
Wednesday, July 02, 2025
Issie Lapowsky
Fast Company