It was updated weekly. Constantly writing and maintaining so much information is almost certainly very expensive. Coupled with the fact that you have to be very careful before releasing each edit to make sure that no accidental personal beliefs or theories slip by (as that would be a diplomatic catastrophe), I reckon the cost of maintaining the thing could be very high.

I would wager that they're still going to maintain their own version of the World Factbook, and just simply not share it. This would allow them to cut out the very costly review step that I talked about.

Now whether that's a good decision or not is a completely different question.

What makes you think they can't "keep it going"? They're ceasing the publication, aka, the act of releasing it.

From the CIA Factbook History page it writes,

> It was first made available to the public in 1975 and in 1981 was renamed The World Factbook

Is it just being classified again? Who knows! That could be classified.

$100,000,000,000 budget for ICE in a year. Average $400,000,000,000 a year in tax cuts for the wealthy. Those expenditures don't pay for themselves. Gotta cut useful services, medical care for the working class, and devalue the dollar some.