Trump Admin Got Rid of Report on Indigenous Deaths & Disappearances

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For the past few years, the above page on the Justice Department website was home to the mandated Not One More Report—which recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances across the U.S., and provided tribes with resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis. But, in order to comply with the cursed executive order called “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government”—aka, the anti-DEI initiatives—the Trump administration vanished it in February.

All this was brought to light earlier this week by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), one of the legislators who passed the act that mandated the report. Speaking to reporters outside her office on Capitol Hill on November 10, she said, “It is astounding that an administration that actually signed these bills into law, that wants to address the issue of keeping our communities safe from violent criminals, including our tribal communities, thinks that this isn’t an important issue.” She continued, “They are ignorant to the fact of the trust and treaty obligation that we have to our tribal communities.

When @lisamurkowski and I passed the Not Invisible Act in 2020 to combat the MMIW crisis, it was Pres. Trump who signed it into law.

But when he took office again, his admin. took this report down. Now it’s been 285 days and this essential report still isn’t back online. His… https://t.co/Tc7fNKWcp7

— Senator Cortez Masto (@SenCortezMasto) November 20, 2025

Masto had been part of the Senate committee that originally introduced the Not Invisible Act in 2019, which was signed by Trump during his first term in 2020. At the time, he tweet-bragged that he was the first president to “formally recognize the issue of Missing & Murdered Native Americans.” “Forgotten NO MORE!” he wrote.

Well, “Forgotten until 2025,” apparently. Speaking to the Journal Record, one spokesperson from the DOJ confirmed the report was removed due to Trump’s (anti) DEI (and anti-trans) executive order because, apparently, missing persons are not a matter of life and death, but a matter of reverse discrimination.

According to Masto, the report disappeared in February—during a time in which the Trump administration was rinsing the country of crucial government resources, like key CDC programs tracking public health, family planning services, and air safety. (Not to mention removing Julianne Moore’s children’s book, Freckleface Strawberry, from administration-led schools.)

Masto and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)—who chairs the Senate Indian Affairs Committee—have been reaching out to the administration to restore the report. According to Masto, the DOJ and White House have yet to comment on why the report was seen as a DEI issue. (Moment of shame for Murkowski, though, whose vote got the Big, Beautiful Bill to pass the Senate, even though she called the decision “agonizing” and said she hoped it would be improved.)

Deaths and disappearances disproportionately impact indigenous people, and in the majority of their missing persons cases, the federal government is expected to step in and investigate. According to the National Crime Information Center, Native people are reported missing at higher rates than the general U.S. public, and in 2020, at least 9,575 missing cases were reported.

“The Trump administration continually, and seems to me, purposefully, misunderstands the difference between Native people and tribal nations and other important and big groups in this country,” Tina Smith, a member of the Senate’s Indian Affairs committee, told NOTUS. “It’s an epidemic of violence against Native women, Native people.”

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