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US agriculture department On Thursday, it announced that it would transfer its employees to five regional hubs in Washington, DC, area and vacate several buildings in the country’s capital including its major research center.
The agency said in a news release that more than 2,000 USDA employees would not be at the conclusion of the restructuring attempt in the Washington region. The remaining 2,600 people will be transferred to the hub in Rale, North Carolina; Canus City, Missouri; Indianapolis; Fort Colins, Colorado; And Salt Lake City.
The USDA also stated that it would vacate several places in the Washington region, including its major research center, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland and one of its headquarters buildings at the National Mall.
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rolins said in a statement, “American agriculture feeds this country and the world, offers clothes and fuel, and it is a long time that the department served great and patriotic farmers, Ranckers and producers, which we are mandatory to support.” “President Trump was chosen to make real changes in Washington, and we are simply doing that by transferring its major services outside the beltway and in great American cities across the country.
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The USDA said it would transfer its employees to five regional hubs in Washington, DC, area and vacate several buildings in the area. (Getty Image / Fox News)
“We will do this through a transparent and common sense process that preserves the important health and public safety services of the USDA, which depends on the American public,” he continued. “We will correct by the great American people we serve and are in relation to thousands of hardworking USDA employees who serve their country.”
In a video to the employees, Rollins stated that the plan to transfer workers was made to bring the employees of the agency closer to their “core components”.
USDA’s plan is the latest attempt Trump administration To reorganize and downsize the federal workforce.
The agency is not making a comprehensive deduction to its employees, although the rehabilitation plan is part of the USDA process Reducing its workforceIt said in the release.
It said that its shortage was through voluntary retirement and agency’s postponed retirement program. More than 15,000 workers, about 15%of its total workforce, chose one of the two financial incentive proposals to voluntarily resign.
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rolins said that the scheme to transfer workers was aimed at bringing the agency employees closer to its “main component”. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Image / Getty Images)
Chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee, Arkanses Republican Sen John Buzman; Ranking member, Minnesota Democratic Sen Amy Clobachar; And the House Agriculture Committee, Minnesota Democrat Rape Angi Craig said that he was not consulted in the plan in the statements and called for a hearing on the restructuring attempt.
“The best way to serve our agricultural community is to work together, so it is disappointing that the USDA did not share its plans before the announcement,” Buzmann said.
Craig said that “the planned reorganization declared by the Congress or major stakeholders and constituencies or without input without input shows that the administration has failed to learn a lesson from previous equal efforts and is putting the effectiveness of agencies and programs supporting the farmers of America’s family.”
The USDA will vacate several places in the Washington region, including its major research centers. (Reuters)
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The USDA plans to reduce or discontinue some regional offices, including the National Agricultural Statistical Service, which, according to a memorandum by the agency, publishes agricultural market data up to five from twelve offices to five offices.
Additionally, the forest service will shut down its nine regional offices in a plan in the next year that will “take into account the ongoing fire season,” Memo said.
According to employee Ethan Roberts, employees of Agricultural Research Service have already struggled before their resignation after their resignation.
“Many people (rehabilitation) will not take the motion, and we will lose more administrative staff who are important for the daily functioning of USDA and ARS,” he said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
