USDA relocates half of D.C. staff
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Axios on MSNUSDA's D.C. shutdown could hurt rural America amid SNAP cuts, tariffs, Klobuchar warnsSen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) warned that the U.S. Department of Agriculture shuttering most of its Washington, D.C. operations could hurt the department's ability "to provide critical services to Americans.
The administration is asking employees “to help the agency with no guarantee of protection in the future," one staffer says.
Over the past seven months, Kenneth Sparks lost at least five federal grants as a result of cancellations and funding freezes. The grants would have supported his four-year-old farm, where he grows vegetables,
Gov. Tony Evers sent a letter to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins and the Trump Administration urging immediate action to reverse the administration’s misguided cuts to key investments and staff at the USDA that will negatively impact Wisconsin’s forestry industry.