What happened/happens to the Internet data and records and results for agencies and projects that were defunded?

Many federal agencies and projects have been eliminated or are being eliminated. But the American people paid for the work and research. Now the agencies are fired, the Internet materials are off the Internet and all the records and data the agencies and departments built are gone? Isn’t that illegal? That is the record of decades of work that has been paid for, in good faith, that is no longer accessible. It could hide things. Good and bad are hidden forever?

I have a particular example. From 1986-1988 I set up the Famine Early Warning System for USAID, and the US State Department.

Now USAID is eliminated and the websites shut down. But those maps, analyses, methods and insights, records of activities and studies of situations are all valid. The international community is trying to restore the current Information but all the reports and documents at USAID offices are likely inaccessible. This affects all defunded research in any agency or its funded projects and grants using the Internet.

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What do you think should happen?

Sincerely,
Richard Collins, Houston Texas

Richard K Collins

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