(CNN) It's easy -- and obvious -- to focus on the high-profile ways in which Donald Trump is remaking American government and, by extension, American culture: His appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, his tax cut plan, his tweeting -- to name three.

And, those things clearly matter. Gorsuch will be on the nation's highest court for life. The tax plan, which Republicans are expected to pass through both chambers of Congress this week, will fundamentally alter the nation's tax structure. Trump's tweeting -- and retweeting -- is changing the way in which a president interacts with the country and the words and images he uses to do it.

But, we know about all of those changes because they are right in front of our faces. What we know far less about -- but are no less important in the structural reshaping of the federal bureaucracy and the populace more broadly -- is how Trumpism is being felt in the myriad federal agencies that are simply not on the national radar.

Take, for example, the reporting by the Washington Post over the weekend that the Centers for Disease Control have been warned not to use 7 hot-button words in future budget proposals. The banned words, you ask? "Diversity," "fetus," "transgender," "vulnerable," "entitlement," "science-based" and "evidence-based."

The Department of Health and Human Services insisted there was no "banned words" list, with spokesman Matt Lloyd adding: "HHS will continue to use the best scientific evidence available to improve the health of all Americans. HHS also strongly encourages the use of outcome and evidence data in program evaluations and budget decisions."

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