Note: many agencies stopped issuing releases when the shutdown began
9/29 - New Foreign-Born Data Tables Now Available (Census; direct to data page)
9/29 - Energy Department Announces $625 Million Investment to Reinvigorate and Expand America’s Coal Industry (DOE; see also, related DOI and EPA releases | NYT article)
9/29 - Justice Department Files Lawsuit Under the FACE Act Against Violent Protestors at Synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey (DOJ; see also, NYT article)
9/29 - Attorney General Bondi Issues Memo on Ending Political Violence Against ICE (DOJ; direct to memo | see also, Law Dork article)
9/29 - U.S. Department of Education Awards Over $153 Million in American History and Civics Seminars Grants (ED; see also, Chronicle of Higher Ed article)
9/29 - OGIS Publishes Annual RMSA Report (NARA; direct to report)
9/29 - USDA to Host Data Users’ Meeting to Gather Public Input on Statistical Programs [Oct. 21] (NASS, via IA as site is down)
9/29 - On the Release of the 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report (State; direct to report page; see also, older reports – notes: report was legally mandated to be delivered to Congress by 6/30, and 2025 page does not have individual country reports as older reports did)
9/30 - Census Bureau Releases Intercensal Estimates by Demographic Characteristics: 2010-2020 (Census; direct to data page)
9/30 - Hegseth Announces War Department Reforms in Sweeping Speech to Top Military Brass (DOD; see also, transcript | Guardian article | NBC News article)
9/30 - Civil Rights Division Files the First Department of Justice Affirmative Lawsuit in Support of Gun Owners (DOJ; see also, UPI article)
9/30 - Summary and Assessment of Agency 2025 Chief FOIA Officer Reports and New Guidelines for 2026 CFO Reports Issued (DOJ; direct to report | 2026 guidelines)
9/30 - FCC to End Unlawful Inclusion of School Bus Wi-Fi Through E-Rate: Modernizing the E-Rate Program for Schools and Libraries (FCC; see also, Ars Technica article)
9/30 - Office of the Historian, Shared Knowledge Services, Bureau of Administration Releases Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 (State; direct to website)
9/30 - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Releases Report: The Federal Response to Teacher Shortage Impacts on Students with Disabilities (USCCR; direct to report page)
10/1 - DHS Debunks New York Times False Reporting: DHS Does NOT Deport U.S. Citizens (DHS; see also, NYT article)
10/1 - DHS and FEMA Condemn Judicial Overreach Threatening National Security and Emergency Preparedness (DHS; see also, Politico article)
10/1 - USPTO announces closure of Rocky Mountain Regional Outreach Office (USPTO)
10/2 - Energy Department Announces Termination of 223 Projects, Saving Over $7.5 Billion (DOE; see also, NPR article)
10/3 - Trump Administration Scores Major Supreme Court Legal Victory, Ending de Facto Amnesty Program [re: Venezuela TPS] (DHS; see also, Law Dork article with link to source document)
9/29 - Update: Recission Notice re: Implementation of NIH Research Security Policies posted to Notices of NIH Policy Changes, rescinding 9/11/25 policy
9/30 – “The PSL Climate Data Repository and associated FACTS website was discontinued September 30th, 2025” posted to NOAA PSL repository
9/30 - Correctional Populations in the United States, 2023 – Statistical Tables and Prisoners in 2023 – Statistical Tables posted to BJS Publications List
9/30 - FBI Headquarters Consolidation posted to FBI Vault Recently Added
10/1 thru 10/3 - Large number of 2026 DHS files posted to Approved Apportionments
9/29 - New Democratic Staff Report: Direct Evidence Trump Administration Has Been Illegally Imposing President’s Proposed Budget Cuts at NASA Since Early Summer—Threatening Safety, Mission, Science (S Commerce minority; direct to report)
9/29 - Peters Calls on OMB to Make Shutdown Contingency Plans Public Following News of Large-Scale Reductions In Force Notices (S Homeland; direct to letter; see also, News from the States article | my contingency plans page)
10/1 - OMB Releases $5 Million for PRAC Following Push by Grassley, Collins (S Judiciary majroity)
10/2 - Ranking Member Robert Garcia Demands Investigation into Trump Administration’s Alleged Illegal Use of Government Resources to Promote a False MAGA Agenda [re: agencies’ web shutdown notices] (H Oversight minority; see also, NBC News article | GovExec article)
10/3 - Ranking Member Robert Garcia, Full Slate of Oversight Committee Democrats, Launch Investigation Into All Major Federal Agencies As They Plan to Illegally Lay Off Thousands of Federal Workers During Republican Government Shutdown (H Oversight minority; direct to letters)
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.
None this week
White House press releases and executive actions
Roll Call Factbase for Trump transcripts (no longer posted to WH website)
9/29 - Audit of NARA’s Research Room Activities (NARA, via IA as site is down)
9/30 - Advisory Report: Review of WHD Efforts to Address Child Labor Law Violation Challenges (DOL)
9/30 - Audit of the Teaching with Primary Sources Program and the Three Regional Partners (LOC)
10/1 - Many OIG websites down/modified; see details in content/preservation section below
10/1 - New EPA OIG website rolled out; reports currently unavailable. See 9/30 IA capture for comparison and access to older reports.
10/3 - Final Results of the 2025 Filing Season (TIGTA)
9/29 - Social Security Administration (SSA) Staffing Levels: Data Brief (CRS)
9/29 - Decision: Department of Homeland Security–Application of the Impoundment Control Act to Federal Emergency Management Agency Prior Year Federal Assistance Appropriations (GAO)
9/30 - Potential Effects of a Federal Government Shutdown (CBO)
9/30 - Venezuela: Political Crisis and U.S. Policy (CRS)
9/30 - Sexual Harassment: Actions Needed to Ensure Consistent Agency Policies for Research Institutions (GAO)
9/30 - Extreme Heat: Limited FEMA Assistance Highlights Need for Reevaluation of Agency’s Role (GAO)
Note: many paywalled articles are freely available via archive.ph
9/25 (missed last week) - Gutted NCES Releases First Batch of Higher Ed Data (Inside Higher Ed; see also, data page)
9/25 (missed last week) - Google To Label Some Search Ads With "Not A Government Website" (Search Engine Roundtable)
9/27 - FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say (AP)
9/28 - Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers (WaPo)
9/29 - Vought of No Confidence (First Branch Forecast, with link to source document)
9/29 - Education Department takes a preliminary step toward revamping its research and statistics arm (Hechinger Report)
9/29 - Judge pauses cuts to US Agency for Global Media (Politico; see also, source document)
9/30 - White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data (CNN)
9/30 - Reagan-Appointed Judge Calls Out Trump’s ‘Full-Throated Assault on the First Amendment’ (Democracy Docket, with link to source document)
9/30 - Trump Tells Top Military Brass to Prepare for War Against ‘Enemy from Within’ (Democracy Docket)
9/30 - Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown (The Handbasket)
10/1 - US government shutdown: What is open, what is closed (Reuters)
10/1 - Federal websites, IG hotlines start to go dark under shutdown (FNN)
10/1 - White House fires many members of the National Council on the Humanities (Reuters)
10/1 - White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage (WSJ; see also, compact via Washington Examiner | 10/3 Politico article on CA governor response)
10/2 - ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ (404 Media)
10/2 - What the Government Shutdown Means for Federal Information Collections and Data (dataindex.us)
10/2 - Hegseth, Vought actions heighten fears about continued inspector general independence (NextGov)
10/2 - Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told (NYT)
10/2 - FDA approved new generic abortion pill before shutdown (Politico, with link to source document)
10/2 - US scraps Justice Department task force that took on cartels, documents show [re: DOJ reorg] (Reuters)
10/2 - ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building (TNR)
10/2 - TrumpRx Could Let Government Steal All Your Data, Legal Expert Warns (TNR)
10/2 - The Government Shutdown Is Helping Trump Obscure Federal Economic Data (TPM)
10/3 - Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids" (Doomsday Scenario)
10/3 - ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering $2,500 Payment for Deportation (Intercept)
10/3 - Head of Eisenhower library forced out after sword spat with Trump (Military Times)
10/3 - DHS Includes White Supremacist Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz (TPM)
10/3 - Trump Explores Bailout of at Least $10 Billion for U.S. Farmers (WSJ)
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.
Note: since I've had requests for it, I'm making available a Google doc that compiles all the previous "from my own reviews" notes; it is updated every week. Many, but not all, of these are also included on the UMN spreadsheet above.
From my own reviews:
Final September and preliminary October change/error report of GovSpeak linkcheck
9/30(?) - OMB Contingencies Plans [9/29 IA capture] page removed; replaced by Miscellaneous page
10/1 - Census Publications | Working Papers | www2.census gov sites (file downloads, such as 2020 Decennial [9/20 IA capture] and TIGER 2025 [9/24 IA capture]) | others? | unavailable, presumably due to shutdown
10/1 - New EPA OIG website rolled out; only five most recent reports available. See 9/30 IA capture for comparison and access to older reports.
10/1 thru 10/3 - Many OIG websites down/modified; some shutdown-related, some funding-related (see GovExec article; asterisks below indicate OIGs also noted in the GovExec article; see also, H Appropriations ranking member statement)
NOTE: I have been capturing all OIG reports - from either an "all reports" page or an "audit reports" page - daily for several years, so they should be available in IA with few exceptions.
From media/Bluesky reports: (All previous media reports are compiled on my Transition guide.)
9/28 - Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list (Politico)
9/30 - Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation (National Security Archive)
9/30 - USDA migrates data archive to new website, dropping Cornell's Mann Library (Reuters; direct to website; see also, 9/26 IA capture of Cornell site)
10/1 - Federal US domain bot (Bluesky)
