{"id":830001,"date":"2025-02-26T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/hundreds-of-us-government-sites-go-offline-amid-trumps-online-purge\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:13:01","slug":"hundreds-of-us-government-sites-go-offline-amid-trumps-online-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/hundreds-of-us-government-sites-go-offline-amid-trumps-online-purge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of US government sites go offline amid Trump\u2019s online purge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of US government websites were offline on Monday, an AFP review showed, including that of the humanitarian agency USAID which President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is shutting down.<\/p>\n

From a list of nearly 1,400 federal sites provided by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), more than 350 were unavailable on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

These included sites linked to the departments of defense, commerce, energy, transportation, labor as well the Central Intelligence Agency and the Supreme Court, the review showed.<\/p>\n

The exact time when the sites became unavailable was not clear. Nor was it known whether the sites were temporarily offline or taken down at the instruction of Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

But the development comes amid the administration\u2019s controversial drive to radically shrink the US government.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive and the world\u2019s richest person, is leading Trump\u2019s federal cost-cutting efforts under the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/p>\n

On Monday, Musk said USAID will be shuttered, calling the agency which runs relief programs in about 120 countries a \u201ccriminal organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

USAID\u2019s website was offline as employees were instructed by email not to go to their offices on Monday.<\/p>\n

A slew of US government websites, including top public health agencies, have also scrubbed references to LGBTQ after a Trump directive last week instructing them to terminate all programs funded by taxpayers that promote \u201cgender ideology,\u201d US media reported.<\/p>\n

Trump has already issued executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion in the government.<\/p>\n

Key information and datasets related to HIV and LGBTQ youth have also disappeared from the website of the\u00a0US\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), alarming health experts.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the CDC\u2019s landing pages for both topics said: \u201cThe page you\u2019re looking for was not found.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe removal of HIV- and LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies is deeply concerning and creates a dangerous gap in scientific information and data to monitor and respond to disease outbreaks,\u201d the\u00a0Infectious Diseases Society of America\u00a0said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Public access to this information was \u201cespecially important as diseases such as HIV, mpox, sexually transmitted infections and other illnesses threaten public health and impact the entire population,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Vanguard News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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