A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been completely removed or otherwise compromised by President ...

The ostrich approach to data won’t solve US hunger

But pretending problems don’t exist won’t make them go away. The ostrich approach is no way to solve U.S. hunger or any other ...
FedScoop

The time to update the federal data strategy is now

The Office of Management and Budget in 2020 and 2021 teamed with agency chief information officers and chief data officers to ...
The Hill

America’s public data needs rescuing

America’s public data is part of our country’s critical infrastructure, every bit as important as our highways, bridges, railways, and dams. Roughly 300,000 public federal datasets, including GPS, ...

The Trump administration is axing a decades-long survey used to track hunger — and it could have dire consequences for millions of Americans

The Trump administration is ending the USDA’s annual hunger survey, a data-rich program tracking food insecurity across the country every year since 1995. Policymakers, non-profits and anti-poverty ...
Yahoo

States file lawsuit against Trump administration over efforts to collect SNAP recipients' data

Washington (AP) — A coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration's demand that their states turn over personal data of people enrolled in a ...

U.S. government releases more data on millions of businesses that took pandemic aid

The Trump administration late on Tuesday released the names of more than 10 million businesses and individuals that took pandemic aid, providing more transparency for the programs which officials say ...
FedScoop

GSA’s newly expanded acquisition data reporting program is riddled with ‘shortcomings,’ watchdog says

The General Services Administration (GSA) Headquarters building. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) The General Services Administration mandated in June that all multiple award schedule contract holders ...

Judge blocks USDA from collecting data about SNAP applicants in 21 states

A judge has temporarily stopped the federal government from collecting personal information about residents in the ...
NBC New York

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients' personal data, including addresses, to ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down ...
The Harvard Crimson

What Can the Trump Administration Do With Harvard’s Race Data?

On Oct. 9, the University will hit a public deadline to turn over documents on its admissions process to the Department of ...
Government Executive

Lawmakers sound alarm on administration of USPS health care program

The Office of Personnel Management still has less than half of the IT staff needed to support postal workers’ employer-sponsored health insurance program as it prepares for its second-ever open season ...