Would it even be legal to delete existing data sets? Surely it belongs to the US public, as it was collected using taxpayer money? (A more likely scenario woul

Would it even be legal to delete existing data sets? Surely it belongs to the US public, as it was collected using taxpayer money? (A more likely scenario would be that the programs collecting data the new administration doesn't like gets the budget axe, creating a hole in the data series for posterity to wonder at. ("Say, ma, how come we have climate records from 1870-2017 and then again from 2021 onwards?")