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Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 5/17/25

Press Releases : May 17 - May 23

5/19 - DHS Hits Back at Tim Walz’s Dangerous Rhetoric Comparing ICE to Gestapo (DHS; see also, RealClear politics article with Walz transcript & link to video)

5/19 - DOE Finalizes 2024 LNG Export Study, Paving Way for Stronger American Energy Exports (DOE; direct to info page; see also, Reuters article)

5/19 - Justice Department Establishes Civil Rights Fraud Initiative (DOJ; direct to memo; see also, CNN article)

5/19 - Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Announces Key Step Towards Building Cars in America Again (DOT; see also, CAFE page)

5/19 - EPA Lifts 2016 Emergency Order on Drinking Water in Flint, Michigan (EPA; direct to Flint page; see also, Michigan Advance article)

5/20 - Secretary Hegseth Statement Directing DOD Review of U.S. Military Withdrawal From Afghanistan (DOD; direct to memo; see also, military.com article)

5/20 - Message from EEOC Acting Chair Lucas about Opening of 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection (EEOC; direct to data collection page; see also, JD Supra article)

5/20 - U.S. Household Food Spending Post COVID-19 and the Implications for Diet Quality (ERS)

5/20 - Gomez on 5th Circuit Finding FCC Lacks Authority on Hiring Practices (FCC; see also, Yale Journal on Regulation article with link to court opinion)

5/20 - OSC Institutes New Policy to Encourage Rewarding Whistleblowers (OSC; direct to policy)

5/20 - SBA Launches Onshoring Portal to Advance America’s Economic Comeback (SBA; direct to website)

5/21 - The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division Dismisses Biden-Era Police Investigations and Proposed Police Consent Decrees in Louisville and Minneapolis [re: George Floyd & Breonna Taylor] (DOJ; see also, CBS News article with link to source document | ProPublica article)

5/21 - Who Regularly Uses the Nutrition Facts Label? Exploring Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Geographic Differences (ERS)

5/21 - FDA takes steps to enhance state importation programs to help lower prescription drug prices (FDA)

5/21 - FTC Renews Challenge of More Than 200 Improper Patent Listings (FTC)

5/21 - OGIS Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report Now Available (NARA; direct to report page)

5/22 - Harvard University Loses Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certification for Pro-Terrorist Conduct (DHS; see also, Politico article | 5/23 Harvard president letter to community, with DHS letter and Harvard legal complaint | 5/23 Politico article on judge blocking action)

5/22 - EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas Corrects EEOC’s Course in Federal Sector, Promises Accountability and Reform (EEOC; direct to memo1 and memo2)

5/22 - EEOC Delivers Historic Results for American Workers in First 120 Days (EEOC)

5/22 - EPA Hails Congressional Disapproval of Biden EPA’s California EV Mandate Rule (EPA; see also, NPR article, with link to GAO report | CA governor statement)

5/22 - MAHA Commission Unveils Landmark Report Exposing Root Causes of Childhood Chronic Disease Crisis (HHS; direct to report; see also, Guardian article)

5/22 - NSA’s AISC Releases Joint Guidance on the Risks and Best Practices in AI Data Security (NSA; direct to guidance)

5/22 - USCIS Deploys Common Sense Tools to Verify Voters (USCIS; see also, SAVE page)

5/23 - Updated Physical Control Measures for Press/Media Access Within the Pentagon (DOD; see also, military.com article)

Bills Signed into Law : May 17 - May 23

Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.


5/19 - S.146, TAKE IT DOWN Act - prohibits the nonconsensual online publication of intimate visual depictions of individuals, both authentic and computer-generated, and requires certain online platforms to promptly remove such depictions upon receiving notice of their existence (see also, CRS report)

Hearings: May 17 - May 23

Other links of possible interest

White House press releases and executive actions

Roll Call Factbase for Trump transcripts (no longer posted to WH website)

Regulations.gov

Trump Trackers

Inspectors General : May 17 - May 23

Spring Semiannual Reports (SARs) have begun to trickle in. As always, I'm tracking them on this page.


5/21 - Potential Cost Savings: HHS Actions (HHS)

5/21 - Several older reports released: OIG-2008-07, OIG-2010-03, OIG-2017-07, OIG-2018-14, OIG-2018-12, OIG-2019-15 (IA link; replaced 5/22 with redacted OIG-2019-15), OIG-2019-07, OIG-2020-11, OIG-2020-10 (USCP)

5/23 - The IRS Could Leverage Examination Results in Artificial Intelligence Examination Case Selection Models and Improve Processes to Evaluate Performance (TIGTA)

Miscellaneous : May 17 - May 23

5/12 (missed last week) - The EPA didn't release its annual U.S. greenhouse gas emissions report, but we got the data. Here's what we found (CBS News, with link to EDF page with report documents)

5/18 - The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous US president (AP)

5/18 - Cooking the books? Fears Trump could target statisticians if data disappoints (The Guardian)

5/19 - Updates on NSF Priorities page revised, with items 15, 16, 17, 25 updated and items 27-34 added (NSF)

5/19 - AHA Statement on Military Libraries, Censorship, and History (AHA)

5/19 - Court Ruling Creates Uncertainty for LGBTQ Workplace Protections (OutSmart; see also, source document)

5/19 - The EPA Plans to Vastly Change How It Studies Chemical Risks (Undark; note – I’ve captured the IRIS data & downloads files in IA and uploaded to IA the Assessments “export to excel” file)

5/20 - DOGE sought access to Government Publishing Office (Politico)

5/21 - FDA plans to limit COVID shots to those over 65 or with high-risk conditions (ABC News)

5/21 - Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn (AP)

5/21 - New Livestream Brings Microfiche Digitization to Life for Democracy’s Library (Internet Archive)

5/21 - These 7 executive actions show how Trump wants to reshape American history (NPR)

5/22 - Updates on NSF Priorities page revised, with “Is there a publicly available list of the awards NSF has terminated?” and link to .csv file added (NSF)

5/22 - What’s in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill that passed the House (CNN; see also, CBO prelim analysis and paygo report | HuffPost article | NYT article)

5/22 - U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data (The Intercept, with source documents)

5/22 - US judge blocks Trump administration plan to gut Education Department (Reuters, with source document)

5/23 - Updates on NSF Priorities page revised, with “Did NSF terminate every award that no longer effectuates priorities, or are more still being identified? and new “Archived information” section added (NSF)

5/23 - 5th Circuit rules Texas library patrons have no First Amendment right to information (Austin American-Statesman, with source document)

5/23 - Supreme Court temporarily allows Trump administration to shield DOGE documents (see also, CREW litigation page and SCOTUS order)

5/23 - Trump orders major revamp of agencies’ handling of scientific research (E&E News; see also, WH factsheet)

5/23 - Public Urged To Report National Park Placards That Disparage Americans Or Detracts From Scenic Grandeur (National Parks Traveler, with link to source document; note - I've uploaded the secretary's order to IA)

5/23 - DOGE created a 'survey of surveys' for a push to cut some government data collection (NPR; see also, Data Foundation statement)

5/23 - Fired Copyright Office head sues Trump administration over removal (NPR, with link to source document)

5/23 - A federal judge further halts Trump's radical transformation of government (NPR; see also, source document)

Web Content Changes/Preservation

This list is illustrative, but certainly not exhaustive.

Note: special thanks to Jenny McBurney, Molly Blake, and Sanga Sung at the University of Minnesota, who are working to post items "from my own reviews" (including those in previous roundups, but excluding the media reports) in their Tracking Removed and Modified Government Information & Resources spreadsheet. A submission form is included on their page if you have other documents/resources that should be added.


From my own reviews:

Preliminary May change/error report of GovSpeak linkcheck

date? (identified 5/21) – Notice on Satellite Products and Services Review Board website that site will be retired at end of May and content will be moved to a google site

5/19 - Public Comment Received for Lanphere Ma l'el Dunes NNL Nomination (IA link) removed from NPS Advisory Board Meetings (“removed to correct accessibility issues; copy available upon request”)

5/20 - NESDIS News page revised, with removal of items appearing on Notice of Changes page. The Notice of Changes page seems to have also been revised again; the 5/18 IA capture shows 12 pages of content, while the current page has just 5 pages of content--with each item having a new url that had not been previously captured in IA.

5/20 - HHS Unaccompanied Alien Children site heavily revised (see 4/28 IA capture for comparison):

5/20 or 5/21 - Redesigned NOAA Global Systems Laboratory website rolled out with significant changes from previous version (5/19 IA capture).

  • Follow-up: entire GSL website went down as I was archiving pages on 5/21; came back up same day, but as older version
  • Follow-up 2: new version released again late 5/21 or early 5/22

5/22 - NIH ONHM Archives and Stetten Museum Collections redesigned website rolled out, with significant revisions from previous version (5/18 IA capture). Among other changes:

5/22 - NSIDC Data Announcments page added retirement notices for:


From media/Bluesky reports: (All media reports are compiled on my Transition guide.)

5/16 - NOAA removes “Teaching Climate” resources from Climate.gov (EDGI)

5/19 - TSA complaint data disappeared. Here’s where you can still find it. (MuckRock; note – this removal was noted on 1/25/25 roundup)

5/21 - The Case of the ‘Lost’ FOIA Requests (FOIA Files/Bloomberg)

5/21 - White House purges transcripts of Trump's remarks from its website (NBC News; note - this removal was noted on 5/10/25 roundup, see 5/15 HuffPost item in miscellaneous box)

5/21 - FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season (Wired)

5/22 - In the Face of Trump’s Erasure, We Must Write Women Back Into the Story (Ms.)

5/23 - FDA Drug Data Missing After DOGE Cuts: How This Impacts Prescriptions (Healthgrades)

5/23 - Trump administration must restore health articles scrubbed for transgender mentions, judge rules (Reuters, with source document; see also, PSNet website)

5/23 - As Trump’s White House Purges Public Records, These Independent Databases Are Keeping Their Own Archives (Time)