Claim:
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump removed a report on missing and murdered Native Americans, calling it “DEI content.”
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Context
The Department of Justice removed the report from its website but didn’t outright call it “DEI content.” Rather, a spokesperson told Snopes in an emailed statement the department removed the report following a Trump administration executive order on gender ideology, a concept that can fall under the wider diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) umbrella in policy discussions.
In November 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump removed a report on missing and murdered Native Americans, calling it “DEI content.”
One Facebook post on the topic read, “The Trump Administration has Removed the Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content!”
The claim also circulated on Instagram (archived), Threads (archived), Bluesky (archived) and Reddit (archived). Snopes readers wrote in to find out if the claim was true.
The claim appeared to come from reporting by Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit reporting project with a focus on public policy journalism. That outlet published an article on Nov. 14, 2025, titled, “Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content.”
According to that article, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Interior (DOI) had removed a report, titled, “Not One More,” that provided recommendations to the U.S. government on how to address a crisis of violence against Indigenous people who were “at a disproportionate risk of experiencing violence, murder, or going missing,” according to the DOJ website. The report covered both men and women and used the abbreviation MMIP for “missing and murdered Indigenous people.”
A DOJ spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Snopes that the department removed the report “to ensure compliance with OPM [Office of Personnel Management] guidance regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women.” The statement said the report remained available on external websites.
The DOJ did not outright call the report “DEI content” in its statement. The executive order in question that reportedly led to the report’s removal discussed biological sex and gender ideology, which are concepts that can fall under the wider diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) umbrella in policy discussions.
Given the above, we have rated this claim as true.
The report could not be accessed through the DOJ or DOI websites at the time of this writing. According to a DOI spokesperson, the department had linked to the report on its site but the link died when the DOJ removed the report from its website.
We reached out to senators and representatives who campaigned to return the report to the DOJ and DOI websites to ask what they knew about the removal or whether the report might be restored. We await replies to our queries.
Congress members call for DOJ to restore report link
According to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a service that archives URLs, the “Not One More” report was last live at the link from the DOI website on Jan. 22, 2025. The Wayback Machine archived the link again on Feb. 2, 2025, where it led to a DOJ “Page not found” screen, meaning the DOJ removed the report sometime between Jan. 22 and Feb. 2, 2025.
A spokesperson for the office of Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, who introduced the Not Invisible Act in the Senate in 2019 that formed the commission that published the “Not One More” report, said in an emailed statement that the office first discovered the report was missing on Feb. 8, 2025.
Cortez Masto’s office confirmed she and and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska who chairs the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, wrote to the Trump administration to ask about restoring the “Not One More” report.
The DOJ told Cortez Masto and Murkowski that the report “was removed in compliance with President Trump’s Executive Order ‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,'” according to Cortez Masto’s office, which echoed the DOJ statement that Snopes received.
In July 2025, around five months after the “Not One More” report disappeared from the DOJ’s website, a group of Democratic representatives led by U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids, D-KY, and Gwen Moore, D-WI, also wrote to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who heads the DOJ, to call for the department to restore the “Not One More” report on its website.
Samara Sheff, Moore’s press secretary, confirmed via email that the representatives did receive a response from the DOJ, but that Moore “is still focused on restoring the report” to the DOJ website.
According to the reply that Sheff shared with Snopes, Theodore Schroeder, then-deputy assistant attorney general, wrote that the department removed the report in line with the Trump administration’s executive order on gender ideology.
Schroeder added that the department was “committed to addressing the issue of missing or murdered Indigenous people (MMIP)” and that the removal of the report “should not be misconstrued to indicate a change in this position or in our response to the recommendations issued by the Not Invisible Act Commission.”
Schroeder did not say in the response whether the DOJ would restore the report link.
Report did not ‘promote gender ideology,’ reps say
The DOJ did not reply to follow-up questions from Snopes about why it found the “Not One More” report was not in compliance with the Trump administration’s executive order on gender ideology.
In their July 2025 letter, Democratic representatives led by Davids and Moore argued that “the work done by the Not Invisible Act Commission explicitly does not promote gender ideology or extremism.”
The representatives wrote, “Though there is mention within the findings themselves that women compose a large percentage of MMIP individuals, there ceases to be a link between gender extremism and ideology and the work of the Not Invisible Commission.”
“Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” was a sweeping executive order that laid out a new U.S. policy “to recognize two sexes, male and female.”
Part of this policy read:
(e) Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology, and shall cease issuing such statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications or other messages. Agency forms that require an individual’s sex shall list male or female, and shall not request gender identity. Agencies shall take all necessary steps, as permitted by law, to end the Federal funding of gender ideology.
This subsection was the only part of the order that referred to government agencies removing content. It remained unclear at the time of this writing why the DOJ concluded the “Not One More” report promoted or otherwise inculcated gender ideology.
The department had not restored the report to its website at the time of this writing, nor did it appear it intended to.
