The State Dept. said the 2024 reports on countries were "adjusted" to be "aligned to the administration's executive orders."

The Trump administration released its new, drastically scaled-down version of the State Department’s annual human rights report on Tuesday.

The report, an annual U.S. government account of human rights conditions in countries around the globe, typically comes out in February or March. A senior State Department official explained that the later release date was due to the transition of power from the Biden administration to the Trump administration.