Of course, there has been a lot of discussion about the datasets being scrubbed from data.gov during the start of this Trump 2025 administration (I believe the count is around 2000 at present?). I recently stumbled on peculiar information that Biden had also scrubbed a significant chunk of datasets from data.gov around the start of his administration. From 2/6/21 to 2/7/21, I noticed on web.archive.org that the datasets available on data.gov decreased from 218384 to 192180 datasets (21,838 datasets removed). I am genuinely curious why that happened and what datasets became inaccessible under Biden. It is more obvious what Trump has scrubbed from data.gov and why, but how do we explain the apparent Biden dataset scrub? Furthermore, what kind of datasets were removed under his administration? I tried looking this up online and no one seemed to sufficiently address this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210207101043/https://www.data.gov/