How much federal data has Trump really purged? |
The Trump administration has scrubbed nearly 3,400 federal datasets from the U.S. government's open data site, Data.gov.
In his first month in office, President Trump has made good on his promise to clean house, with massive slashes in the federal workforce and in publicly accessible data.
Pre-Trump, there were 308,000 datasets available on Data.gov. It's since dipped to 304,621 as of Feb. 21. That's 3,379 datasets removed — but what was on those pages?
One researcher told The Associated Press earlier this month that the factual purge has put them in "a mad scramble" to determine what public data has been deleted from........