The AFP reviews offered hundreds of US official websites on Monday, including the humanitarian agency USAID, which is being closed by President Donald Trump.
From the list of about 1,400 federal sites provided by Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), more than 350 were unavailable on Monday afternoon.
These included defense, commerce, energy, transport, labor as well as sites attached to the central intelligence agency and departments of the Supreme Court, shown in the review.
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The exact time when the sites became unavailable were not clear. Nor was it known whether the sites were temporarily offline or were taken on the instructions of Trump’s administration.
But there was development amid the controversial campaign of the administration to fund the US government fundamentally.
Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX’s chief executive and the world’s richest person, is leading Trump’s federal cost-cutting efforts under the so-called Government Efficiency Department (DOGE).
On Monday, Musk said that USAID would be discontinued, which calls the agency that runs a relief program in about 120 countries “criminal organizations.”
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The USAID’s website was offline as employees were instructed by email not to go to their offices on Monday.
The US media said that a sleep of American government websites including top public health agencies has also scrubbed the references of LGBTQ after Trump’s instructions last week, which instructs them to abolish all the programs funded by taxpayers, Which “promote gender ideology,” said by American media.
Trump has already issued executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion in the government.
Major information and datasets related to HIV and LGBTQ youth have also disappeared from the website of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hazardous to health experts.
On Monday, CDC’s landing pages for both subjects states: “The page you are looking for is not found.”
“HIV-and LGBTQ related resources from the websites of the centers of disease control and prevention centers and other health agencies are related to the removal of scientific information and data, which creates a dangerous difference in the outbreak of the disease and the outbreaks of the disease and The response reacts, “Infectious Disease Society of America said in a statement.
Public access was “especially important for this information because diseases such as HIV, MPX, sexually transmitted infections and other diseases endanger public health and affect the entire population,” it said.
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