Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, several major government websites have been overhauled, reflecting his administration’s push for swift and significant changes to the bureaucracy.
Following the inauguration on Jan. 20, the White House website underwent a significant redesign, including the removal of its Spanish language version.
Previously accessible at┬аhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/es/, the page now returns a “404 Error” message. Initially, the error page included a “Go Home” button, which directed users to a video montage of Trump’s first term and campaign. The button has since been updated to read “Go To Home Page.”
When asked about the changes, White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields said that the administration is “committed to bringing back online the Spanish translation section of the website.”
He added that the site is still being developed, edited┬аand refined, and that some archived content has gone dormant as part of the process. Fields said the administration is committed to restoring that content soon but did not provide further details.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website remains largely unchanged, except for one notable wording shift: all instances of “noncitizen” have been replaced with “alien.”┬а
According to Axios, this aligns with a directive from ICE leadership to revert to terminology used during Trump’s first presidency.
At first glance, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website appears the same, with shortcuts to various resources still in place.
However, some topics have been removed.
The link to reproductive health-care resources has been deleted┬аand the page it previously led to is no longer accessible.
The shortcut to the “Climate Change and Health Equity” section has been removed from the main site, although the original page remains live.
A shortcut to COVID-19 resources has also been eliminated. Additionally, the site no longer links to the department’s diversity, equity, inclusion┬аand accessibility program, but its URL is still active.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration instructed federal health agencies within HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, The Washington Post reported.
The Department of Labour website has also undergone revisions. A footer link that previously allowed users to report equal employment opportunity violations has been removed, along with the page it directed to.
In the days before the inauguration, the homepage prominently featured a link to resources on collective bargaining and unions. That link has been taken down┬аand the page itself is not currently available.
Also, the Federal Reserve has scrubbed a “Diversity and Inclusion” section from its website, with previous links to a statement of the U.S. central bank’s diversity standards and data on the racial, ethnic and gender makeup of its economists and researchers now defaulting to its home page.
