• Some federal websites and webpages went dark after President Donald Trump took office.
• Among them were La Casa Blanca, the Spanish-language White House site, and some federal DEI sites.
• The government website for reproductive rights also returned error messages.

Several federal government webpages and entire websites went down this week after President Donald Trump took office.

Some of the sites were related to political flashpoints, including reproductive rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.

The White House has addressed some of the changes and said that several pages were temporarily down as part of the transition to the new administration's website, but would be restored.

Here are the sites that went dark this week and what the White House has said about them. Press representatives from the White House did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

La Casa Blanca

The Spanish-language White House website, La Casa Blanca, was returning a 404 page after Trump took office. The 404 page initially included a button that said "Go Home," but it was updated to read "Go To Home Page."

A White House spokesperson told The Associated Press the administration was "committed to bringing back online the Spanish translation section of the website."

NBC reported that the Spanish-language version of the White House website took months to relaunch at the start of President Barack Obama's term and Trump's first term.

Reproductiverights.gov

Reproductiverights.gov was returning an error message as of Friday. The public awareness website was launched in 2022 by the Department of Health and Human Services during the Biden administration.

A version of the website still visible on internet archives showed it included information on birth control, abortion, and preventative health services, like breast and cervical cancer screenings.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment on why the site was down.

Federal agencies' DEI webpages

The DEI pages on several federal agencies' websites disappeared this week. Trump on Tuesday ordered all federal DEI employees to be placed on leave as the agencies work on dismantling their DEI efforts.

Trump's memo also instructed agencies to remove any public-facing webpages on DEI to be removed by Wednesday evening. Some agencies removed their DEI pages even before the memo was issued.

During a speech delivered Thursday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said, "My administration has taken action to abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense. And these are policies that were absolute nonsense throughout the government and the private sector."

White House pages on the Constitution and Presidential biographies

Several former pages on the White House website were returning 404 messages, including pages on the Constitution and on presidential biographies. In a statement to USA Today, a White House spokesperson said the removals were not intentional and were temporary.

"It's day two. We are in the process of developing, editing and tweaking the White House website. As part of this ongoing work, some of the archived content on the website went dormant. We are committed to reloading that content in a short timeline," Harrison Fields, principal White House deputy press secretary, told the outlet.

Page for White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention

The page for the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention was also returning a 404 message this week, the gun-violence prevention organization Brady said, raising questions about whether the office was being shut entirely.

Some members of Congress expressed concern over the webpage being shuttered, including New York Rep. Tim Kennedy and Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost. The NRA posted on X in favor of the move and called the office "misleading" in an X post.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment from BI about the site.