Various government sites have been taken down, including the USAID.GOV, foreignassistance.gov, navreateddiseases.gov and childrendanadversity.gov. In a wired analysis of more than 1,000 federal .Gov sites, it was found that at least seven websites linked to a USAID server were offline on Saturday afternoon.
Reuters reported on Friday that the word of offline websites was the result of confusion over new guidelines on federal websites allowed. Agencies have been instructed to take off “all outward media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that sink or promote genital ideology by 17:00 on Friday, 31 January.
The move is the latest step in the Trump administration’s move to radically rework the US government. Shortly after holding office, the Trump administration declined reproductivights.GOV, which provided reproductive health care information. A growing number of US government sites have been offline since mid -January.
Along with websites associated with the USAID server, Youth.gov – is an American government website focused on supporting youth programs – over the past 24 hours. Before it was taken down, an archive version of The Wayback Machine showed that it was a post entitled ‘Preparation for MLK Jr. National Day of Service.
A USAID employee told Wired that staff members are saving digital copies of regulations from the website archive versions, and that some are at least closed from their systems, including staff files, pay and benefits. “Decades of taxpayer-funded reports and analysis have been within a moment,” said the employee, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press. “We have no idea what happens behind the scenes or what will be back, when and in what form.”
The employee added: “Staff cannot even come in the Dec (Development Experience Clearinghouse, a publicly available DUID database) to secure copies of Open Access reports.”
Another USAID employee told Wired that they still had access to internal working systems from Saturday afternoon, but that they have a limited visibility to what is happening and why.
“We were not allowed to contact our partners,” said the employee, who was also granted anonymity. “We were kept in the dark, and it’s just an extension of it.” The employee added that they were concerned that the agency would be taken down to a “skeleton of what we were.”
Other sites, including HealthData.gov, supervised.gov and vaccines.gov, also became periodically dark. It is unclear whether these short take -away meals are linked to the recent executive order or that some are due to non -related technical problems. However, some websites, such as ProsperAfrica.gov, explicitly state: “To be in accordance with the president’s executive orders, this site is currently maintenance as we review all the content quickly and thoroughly.”
Wired building software to systematically check the status of 1.374 government domains. The instrument performs periodic scans, and follows whether websites remain accessible, how their servers respond, and whether the domain name still dissolves. This allows us to monitor patterns in up time and catch moments when websites suddenly disappear – sometimes or hours later reappear. Some of these interruptions can be attributed to routine maintenance or technical errors. Others suggest broader infrastructure errors or deliberate removal.