Do you work at the CDC? Can you share your sources for this?

We (the general public) know absolutely nothing about why these pages were removed. All we can say definitively is that they are gone.

And spit out baseless speculation too of course.

So just to confirm: you think this is a bad thing.

Ok. I'll count on you to push back on the President if this indeed turns out to be what he wants.

If this is true, why don’t we see the administration ordering the pages restored?

Well if that's the case I'm sure the Executive will make it a priority to issue clarifying guidance for agencies so they can accurately reflect its intent.

Any day now surely.

Are all the firings across the federal government just to cause backlash too?

Given that people are being fired left and right on laughable pretexts, I can't blame the people tasked with implementing these executive orders for erring on the side of "what the boss probably wants". Especially when the boss is very loud about what he wants.

> The Bureaucracy intentionally read the executive order on gender in a broad and absurd way.

I think Trump's biggest stunt is to convince almost half of American voters is that the cause of their financial problems is not the broken system (of financing higher education and healthcare) nor the top rich people who get richer whereas the poor become poorer, but some magic "Bureaucracy" - basically people like you and me, some of which at some point decided to serve their country rather than get a job in private sector for more money.

I saw this rhetoric of common enemy before, but I never believed people would be gullible enough to believe it. (I say this as a person who believes that periodic review and improvement of functioning of all infrastructure is crucial, but the way you do it is decisive.)

"I take no responsibility for the wide-ranging consequences of my poorly worded and ill-thought out executive orders!"

Good, this is dragging us back to the stone ages.

I'm impressed at how you can perceive conspiracies everywhere.