"Climate change" is out. "Resilience" is in. "Victims of domestic violence" are now "victims of crime." Foreign aid for refugee rights has become aid to protect "national security." "Clean energy investment" has been transformed into just plain "energy" investment.

The federal government is undergoing a rebranding under President Donald Trump - although not all at his direction.

As Trump sets new priorities for Washington sharply at odds with what the town has seen for the past eight years, some officials working on hot-button issues such as the environment, nutrition and foreign aid are changing the names of offices and programs that might draw skepticism from the conservative Republican leaders he has installed atop agencies.

While entire departments are changing their missions under Trump, many of these rebranding efforts reflect a desire to blend in or escape notice, not a change in what officials do day-to-day - at least not yet, according to 19 current and former employees across the government, and nonprofit officials who receive federal funding.

"I do think it exemplifies a general sense of looking at our programs, looking at the way we characterize our activities, and trying to rebrand or repaint them in ways that hopefully make them less of a target," said one Energy Department employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely describe the changes inside the government.

The changes in messaging come as Trump and his Cabinet leaders are setting new priorities - and that will increasingly change the operations of most agencies as time goes on and the administration gets lower-level political appointees into top posts.

The Environmental Protection Agency has shifted from enacting climate change regulations to reversing them, while the Energy Department has moved from boosting prospects for renewable energy to promoting President Trump's fossil fuel-focused agenda. The Trump State Department is aiming to cut spending on diplomacy and foreign aid, and the Agriculture Department has backed away from Obama-era rules to ensure healthy school lunches.

"I think you're seeing a combination of people trying to stay below the radar so they don't get whacked, and also trying to morph so they can accommodate what the new administration's point of view is going to be," said Adam Cohen, who served as deputy undersecretary for science and energy at the Energy Department from October 2015 until this month.

Some of the most striking examples of rebranding come from agencies dealing with energy and the environment, where references to "climate change" and "clean energy" have sometimes disappeared.

In late April, the "Energy Investor Center" replaced the Department of Energy's "Clean Energy Investment Center," which was founded in early 2016 to help the private sector better learn how to put money into renewable technologies.

Language about the focus on the "clean and alternative" energy market vanished from the program's website.

The old Web link, which included the word "clean," redirects to one that doesn't, according to an analysis by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, which tracks government website changes affecting the environment.

Energy spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler saidthese changes were not ordered by the Trump administration but were made by career staff to "better reflect the broader focus of the project, which includes all traditional and nontraditional energy sources."

"It's our own career staff, they're in their 'Keep their head down, maybe they won't cut our budget' mode," said an Energy Department staffer who also spoke anonymously because the employee was not authorized to speak publicly.

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At two other federal agencies - the EPA and the Federal Highway Administration - programs have shifted to talking about "resilience" rather than "climate change."

The EPA's "Climate Ready Water Utilities" site was renamed "Creating Resilient Water Utilities" - even before the inauguration, the timing of which suggests it was unlikely that Trump appointees were involved in the change.

At the Federal Highway Administration, a website focused on the environmental impacts of cars and other forms oftransportation replaced a page addressing "climate change" with one about "sustainability" sometime in January.

Another page, on climate change "adaptation," morphed into one titled "resilience," and the overall program, formerly known as the Sustainable Transport and Climate Change group, was renamed the Sustainable Transportation and Resilience group.

The rebrandings extend beyond the energy and environment sphere.

A key Obama-era initiative at the Agriculture Department called "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food," which brought together seven farm-to-table nutrition programs, was moved from the agency's main website to an obscure one within the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, where it appears under the blander "Local & Regional Food Sector." Instead of highlighting farmers markets, organic agriculture and a "Farm to School" program, the site features "Opportunities for Farmers and Ranchers" and guidance on"Aggregating, Processing and Distributing."

Development programs, facing potentially drastic funding cuts to international aid, have reframed their missions to de-emphasize Obama-era priorities such as women's health and climate change and instead play up regional stability and religious freedom in areas where Christians are persecuted.

"Civil servants running data-driven initiatives are trying to figure out how to reframe their work to appeal to a White House that has so far taken an ideologically driven 'Ready, fire, aim' approach to understanding many of our federal programs," said Daniel Holt, founder of the Washington-based consulting firm Anchorage Partners and USAID's director of public engagement from 2015 to 2017.

"Staff shouldn't feel their jobs are threatened by those who haven't looked into the efficacy of the programs they're going after," Holt said. "These are civil servants who have sworn an oath to faithfully do their jobs in service of our country."