Trump administration has deleted or altered nearly 400 federal datasets on public health, education and safety standards The Guardian | August 24, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/08/24/trump-administration-has-deleted-or-altered-nearly-400-federal-datasets-on-public-health-education-and-safety-standards/ America’s official data trove is quietly shrinking, and nobody in charge is explaining why. A Guardian investigation by reporters Amy Qin and Flávio Pessoa found that the Trump administration has deleted at least 28 federal datasets and altered 338 more since January 2025, touching public health, education, and safety records across more than 60 agencies.