Some government webpages briefly went dark Friday after federal agencies were told to comply with a White House order on removing certain language pertaining to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Pages for the Federal Aviation Administration, the Census Bureau and the Justice Department were among those that went blank. The FAA and Justice Department later came back online.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week that stated only the genders male and female are to be recognized by the federal government. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) distributed a memo, obtained by NBC News, ordering that all federal government references to “gender ideology” be removed by 5 p.m. Friday.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the duration of any website changes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it removed its data portal to satisfy Trump administration orders. The data page will eventually return, the CDC said.
A notice on the data homepage said: “Data.CDC.gov is temporarily offline in order to comply with Executive Order 14168 Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government and the OPM notice dated January 29, 2025, ‘Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Defending Women).”
“The website will resume operations once in compliance,” the notice said.
The Trump administration has already removed dozens of webpages across federal health agencies, including many at the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
The main HIV page, a hub for HIV data, resources for health care providers, pages on racial disparities, another on transgender people, gay and bisexual men, and information about ongoing youth risk behaviors and details about the federal “Ending the HIV Epidemic” plan were scrubbed by Friday.
Also down on Friday were several webpages for the U.S. Agency for International Development, tasked with administering foreign, distributing medicine abroad and helping to thwart disease outbreaks.
