Confirmed Data Terminations and Removals
This page memorializes the federal datasets and variables, as well as select data tools, that have been terminated or removed in 2025. This list does not include routine changes and terminations of datasets, but rather strives to capture losses to federal data that are extra-ordinary.
Read more about what this all means in this Federation of American Scientists blogpost.
Thank you to everyone who has submitted a dataset, variable, or tool that has been terminated or removed. Comprehensive update coming this summer (last updated 12/1/2025).
Terminated Datasets
labor data
Discontinuance of Information Collections – Federal Register Notice
Farmer Survey Response Decline a Growing Problem – Farm Bureau
Amid Fight Over H-2A Wages, Trump Administration Moves to End Farm Labor Survey – Progressive Farmer
Agricultural Labor Survey (ALS)
Agency: USDA
Status: dataset terminated
social services data
Community Resilience Estimates Equity Supplement Archived Data - Data Rescue Project
Community Resilience Estimates Equity Supplement
Agency: CENSUS
Status: dataset terminated
economic data
USDA Terminates Redundant Food Insecurity Survey - USDA
Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey - WSJ
CPS Food Security Supplement Archived Data - Data Rescue Project
Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS)
Agency: USDA
Status: dataset terminated
health data
Continuation and Revitalization - The DHS Program
Who is now supporting the DHS program? - The DHS Program secured interim funding for select services
Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program - NYT
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Agency: USAID
Status: dataset terminated*
international data
When USAID shut down, its open data portal became password protected.
Archived Development Data Library Webpage - Wayback Machine
Development Data Library (DDL)
Agency: USAID
Status: password protected
health data
DAWN Discontinuing New Data Collection - SAMHSA
An Interview With A Terminated Analyst At The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Administration - Defector
Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)
Agency: SAMHSA
Status: dataset terminated
labor data
Public Service Viewpoint Survey - Partnership for Public Service
Statement on rescinding/revising reports - OPM
After months of postponing, OPM opts to fully cancel 2025 FEVS - Federal News Network
Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS)
Agency: OPM
Status: 2025 data terminated
environmental data
EPA Releases Proposal to End the Burdensome, Costly Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, Saving up to $2.4 Billion - EPA
Reconsideration of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program - Federal Register
Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP)
Agency: EPA
Status: dataset terminated
social services data
Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees for Fiscal Year 2026 - SSA
Archived National Beneficiary Survey Webpage - Wayback Machine
National Beneficiary Survey
Agency: SSA
Status: dataset terminated
climate data
NOAA Research and Development Database
Agency: NOAA
Status: Data collection and publication have been terminated
Variables Removed
remove
The race and ethnicity column was removed
FedScope
Agency: OPM
Status: data element removed
justice data
Data on transgender inmates was removed
Inmate Statistics
Agency: BOP
Status: data element removed
justice data
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
Agency: BJS
Status: data elements removed
demographic data
Sparse federal data on LGBTQs is threatened by recent Trump executive orders - The Bay Area Reporter
Impact of Executive Orders on Access to Federal Data - UCLA Williams Institute
100s of Information Collections Influenced by Presidential Actions in the First 6 Months of the Trump Administration - dataindex.us
Trump Administration Actions to Curb Data Collection Related to SOGI - KFF
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity “SOGI” Data
Agency: Gov-Wide
Status: data elements removed
Tools taken down
emergency management data
Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Notice of Change - NESDIS
Re-creation of U.S. Billion-Dollar Disasters: 1980-2024 - Climate Central
Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
Agency: NOAA
Status: tool taken down
climate data
Re-creation of CEJST - Public Environmental Data Partners
Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST)
Agency: CEQ
Status: tool taken down
environmental data
EPA Removes EJScreen from Its Website - EDGI
Recreation of EJScreen - Public Environmental Data Partners
Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen)
Agency: EPA
Status: tool taken down
emergency management data
Trump removed an online tool that predicts your climate risk. Rogue data scientists rebuilt it - Fast Company
Re-creation of the Future Risk Index - Fulton Ring
Future Risk Index
Agency: FEMA
Status: tool taken down
emergency management data
Navigating the HIFLD Transition - NAPSG Foundation
The Rise, Power, and Uncertain Future of America's Open Infrastructure Data - Project Geospatial
Preserving critical Open Data (including HIFLD) and making it usable in a real-time map - Seer.ai
Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open
Agency: DHS
Status: tool taken down
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Read about what this all means in this Federation of American Scientists blogposts.
