Second presidency of Donald Trump: Difference between revisions

In response to executive orders, there were freezes in scientific funding and purges of data related to LGBTQ issues, gender, climate change, and racial diversity.<ref name="e267">{{cite web | last=Calma | first=Justine | title=Donald Trump's data purge has begun | website=The Verge | date=2025-01-31 | url=https://www.theverge.com/news/604484/donald-trumps-data-purge-has-begun | access-date=2025-02-01}}</ref><ref name="s717">{{cite web | last=Stone | first=Will | title=Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies | website=NPR | date=2025-01-31 | url=https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5282274/trump-administration-purges-health-websites | access-date=2025-02-01}}</ref> The [[National Science Foundation]] (NSF) ceased paying out its grants to researchers leaving many without a salary.<ref name="d815">{{cite web | last=Boodman | first=Eric | title=National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills | website=STAT | date=2025-01-30 | url=https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/trump-funding-freeze-national-science-foundation-suspends-salary-payments/ | access-date=2025-02-01}}</ref> The [[FederalFood and Drug Administration]] began purging material on clinical trial diversity, which test the effects of medical treatments on different populations.<ref name="x874">{{cite web | last1=Herper | first1=Matthew | last2=Lawrence | first2=Lizzy | title=FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban | website=STAT | date=2025-01-23 | url=https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/fda-purges-pages-clinical-trial-diversity-after-trump-dei-ban/ | access-date=2025-02-01}}</ref> The CDC's social vulnerability index and environmental justice index, which measure disparities in health risks, were removed from the website, and on January 31 the data portal was taken completely offline in response to [[Executive Order 14168]].<ref name="e267"/> AtlasPlus, an interactive CDC tool for tracking diseases like HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis, was taken down.<ref name="d375">{{cite web | last=Wu | first=Katherine J. | title=CDC Data Are Disappearing | website=The Atlantic | date=2025-01-31 | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cdc-dei-scientific-data/681531/ | access-date=2025-02-01}}</ref> Census web pages about sexual identity and orientation were taken offline, and CDC pages about HIV and LGBTQ+ youth also disappeared.<ref name="x252">{{cite web | last = Hull | first = Dana | title=CDC Information, Datasets Disappear From US Agency's Websites | website=Bloomberg | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-01/cdc-information-datasets-disappear-from-us-agency-s-websites | access-date=2025-02-01}}</ref> According to ''[[The Atlantic]]'', the Trump administration intended to "target and replace" keywords in CDC content including "pregnant people, transgender, binary, non-binary, gender, assigned at birth, binary [sic], non-binary [sic], cisgender, queer, gender identity, gender minority, anything with pronouns".<ref name="d375"/>