Many government websites have been taken down, including usaid.gov, feonitassestance.gov, eggecteddiseases.gov, and Children's -cadre.GOV. A wired analysis of over 1,000 federal. Gov websites found that at least seven sites associated with USAID server went offline over a two -hour period on Saturday afternoon.
On Friday, Reuters reported The term of the sites was being taken offline, which was the result of confusion around the new guidelines on the language allowed to appear on federal sites. The agencies were instructed to take down the “all external facing media (website, social media accounts, etc.)), which promote the gender ideology to EST, Friday, January 31 at 5 pm.
This step is the latest step of the Trump administration's move to remake the US government fundamentally. Short after taking office, Trump administration breedWhich provides information about reproductive health care. The increasing number of US government websites has gone offline since mid -January.
With sites affiliated to the USAID server, Youth. Gov- An American government site focused on supporting youth programs – has gone offline in the last 24 hours. From a stored version before it was taken down Webac machine It has been shown that a post has been shown a post titled “MLK Junior National Day of Service”.
A USAID employee tells Wired that the staff members are scratch to save digital copies of the rules from the stored versions of the site, and at least some are being locked out of their system, including the workers' files, Payment and profit information includes. “The taxpayer went into an instant in the decades of reports and analysis,” says the employee, who requested oblivion because they are not authorized to talk to the press. “We don't know what is happening behind the curtain or what will be back, when and in what form.”
Employee added: “Staff cannot even go to DEC (a publicly available database of the development experience clearance, USAID documents) to secure copies of the open access report.”
Another USAID employee said Wired still reached internal work systems by Saturday afternoon, but what is happening and why there is limited visibility in why.
“We are not allowed to stay in touch with our colleagues,” says the employee, which was also given oblivion. “We are kept in the dark, and this is just an extension of that.” The employee said they worry that the agency would be dropped down to the “skeletons of what we were”.
Healthdata.gov, Oversite.GOV, and vaccines. It is not clear whether these brief Tekdowns are associated with the recent executive order or if some are due to unrelated technical issues. However, some sites, such as prosperafrica.gov, clearly state: “To be in line with the President's executive orders, this website is currently undergoing maintenance because we review all the materials faster and fully and completely all the materials. . “
Wired -made software to systematically check the condition of 1,374 government domains. The tool drives a periodic scan, tracks whether the site is accessible, how their servers react, and if the domain name still resolves. This allows us to monitor the pattern in the uptime and catch the moments when the sites suddenly disappear -sometimes after minutes or hours later, sometimes appear again. Some of these outages may be attributed to regular maintenance or technical glitter. Others suggest wide infrastructure failures or deliberate removal.