Some government websites have been removed, including usaid.gov, Foreignassistance.gov, ignoring LadSease.gov and ChildrenadVerson.gov. A wired analysis of more than 1,000 federal .GOV websites shows that at least seven websites are linked to a USAID server that has been offered offline for two hours on Saturday afternoon.
On Friday, Reuters report From there, the websites offered offline are the result of confusion around the new language guidelines allowed to appear on federal websites. The agencies have been guided to defeat all the media facing outward (websites, social media accounts, etc. , Friday, January 31.
This move is the latest step in the Trump administration to completely redo the US government. Immediately after taking office, The Trump administration has been removedIn which provides information on reproductive health care. A increasing number of US government websites has been offline from the middle of January.
Along with websites associated with USAID server, youth.GOV, a US government website focused on supporting teenagers, appearing offline in the past 24 hours. Before it was removed, a version of archives Wayback machine It shows that it has a title post, preparing for MLK JR. Day of Service.
A USAID employee told Wired that employees are scrambling to save digital copies of the rules from the site's storage versions and at least some people are locked out of their systems, Including human resource files, payment and benefits information. Reports and analysis are immediately sponsored by taxpayers, the staff asked anonymously because they were not authorized to talk to the press. We don't know what is happening behind the scenes or what will return, when and in any form. “
Adding staff: The Viking staff cannot even go to Dec (development experience, a public database of USAID documents) to secure copies of open access reports.
Another USAID employee told Wired that they still have access to internal working systems on Saturday afternoon, but have the ability to display limited about what is happening and why.
We are not allowed to contact our partners, he said, employees, people are also anonymous. We were held in the dark, and this was just an extension of that. The staff added that they were worried that this agency would be reduced by our skeleton.
Other websites, including Healthdata.gov, supervisor.GOV and vaccine -Xin.GOV, have also been dark periodically. It is still unclear whether these brief destruction are linked to the recent executive command or if some are due to unrelated technical issues. However, some websites, such as Prosperfrica.gov, clearly stated: To suit the executive commands of the president, this website is currently being maintained when we review quickly and carefully all. The content. “
The software is built with wired to check the status system of 1,374 areas of the Government. The tool runs periodically, tracks the websites can still access, how their server responds and if the domain names are still resolved. This allows us to monitor the samples during the operation and catch the moments when the websites suddenly disappear, sometimes reappear a few minutes or hours later. Some of these activities can be attributed to regular maintenance or technical problems. Others propose larger infrastructure failures or intentional removal.