--- title: Federal Webpages Go Dark as Trump Admin Removes Public Data description: Census.gov went down late Friday, as did the FAA's website, and health datasets from the CDC and other sites. canonical: https://time.com/7211965/trump-federal-websites-data/ author: Brian Bennett article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-01-31T22:33:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-01-19T18:36:17.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Federal Webpages Go Dark as Trump Admin Removes Public Data og:description: Census.gov went down late Friday, as did the FAA's website, and health datasets from the CDC and other sites. og:url: https://time.com/7211965/trump-federal-websites-data/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3e2791e62eb1ea6/6998b2ff47fe5181d05597fb/GettyImages-1232895303.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: In this photo illustration the Center for Disease Control og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Federal Webpages Go Dark as Trump Admin Removes Public Data twitter:description: Census.gov went down late Friday, as did the FAA's website, and health datasets from the CDC and other sites. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3e2791e62eb1ea6/6998b2ff47fe5181d05597fb/GettyImages-1232895303.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Federal Webpages Go Dark as Trump Administration Removes Public Data > Sponsored content. 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Updated: Jan 19, 2026 6:36 PM UTCPublished: Jan 31, 2025 10:33 PM UTC  In this 2021 photo illustration, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) logo is seen on a smartphone in a hand in front of its website. In this 2021 photo illustration, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) logo is seen on a smartphone in a hand in front of its website. Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar—SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images  by [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/)  ## Brian Bennett Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME. Updated: Jan 19, 2026 6:36 PM UTCPublished: Jan 31, 2025 10:33 PM UTC The Trump Administration took down parts of some government websites as well as removed several health data sets on Friday**,** raising alarm among health care providers and researchers who use government data in their daily work. Information about HIV was removed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Late Friday, census.gov appeared to be down. Earlier in the afternoon, links to U.S. Census data sets sent users to the message, “an error occurred while processing this directive.” And research data from national surveys of American children called the “Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System” also wasn’t available on Friday. Trump’s White House press office did not return requests for comment about the outages. President Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office instructing federal agencies to shut down diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, prompting agencies to start reviewing all the information on their websites. On the CDC website Friday, webpages with detailed information for doctors working with HIV patients were not accessible. The link for the site tilted: “HIV Nexus: CDC Resources for Clinicians” generated a page-not-found message, so did the website link for “HIV Data.” During the day on Friday, state public health officials and front line organizations that work with patients circulated messages about online resources going dark. In one email message sent to organizations in North Carolina and reviewed by TIME, local health care workers who rely on government data for their work were told to download any significant information. “We have been told the YRBS is unavailable and has been removed,” the email read, referring to the Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System. “We do not know how long it will be down or what will be impacted.” —WITH REPORTING BY ANDREW CHOW ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7211965/trump-federal-websites-data/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7211965/trump-federal-websites-data/"},"headline":"Federal Webpages Go Dark as Trump Administration Removes Public Data","datePublished":"2025-01-31T22:33:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-01-19T18:36:17.000Z","description":"The Trump Administration took down parts of some government websites.","url":"https://time.com/7211965/trump-federal-websites-data/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3e2791e62eb1ea6/6998b2ff47fe5181d05597fb/GettyImages-1232895303.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian Bennett","jobTitle":"Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3e2791e62eb1ea6/6998b2ff47fe5181d05597fb/GettyImages-1232895303.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"In this photo illustration the Center for Disease Control","caption":"In this photo illustration the Center for Disease Control","creditText":"Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar—SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7211965/trump-federal-websites-data/","name":"Federal Webpages Go Dark as Trump Administration Removes Public Data"}}]}] ```