These Research Agencies Still Haven't Recovered After They Were Forced To Move To Kansas City

[TexasTowelie]

The Trump administration moved two agriculture agencies to Kansas City, but it’s not working out as planned.


President Joe Biden has been signing lots of executive orders to reverse Trump administration policies, but some parts of the Trump legacy won’t be so easy change. Food and farming research took a major hit over the Trump years, and unwinding that damage means restoring decimated agencies and mistreated employees.

U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers got crossways with the Trump Administration by publishing and funding objective analyses of issues like climate change, the efficiency of food assistance programs, and tax cuts that mostly benefit the richest farmers.

“There definitely was hostility in the Trump administration towards federal workers,” says Tom Bewick, a national program leader at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. “There was also hostility in the Trump administration towards science, and so, if you were a federal employee and a science agency, that was the double whammy,” says Bewick.

The Trump administration proposed deep cuts to USDA research agencies. When Congress wouldn’t go along, the administration came up with plan B: Move two agencies — the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, and the Economic Research Service, or ERS — far away from Washington.

Read more: https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-02-02/these-research-agencies-still-havent-recovered-after-they-were-forced-to-move-to-kansas-city

[Freethinker65]

1. Thx.I had forgotten about that.

[Whiskeytide]

2. I think it's working out EXACTLY as planned. n/t