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Hundreds of Federal Employees Will be Moved out of DC | |
2018-08-11 | |
[Daily Caller] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is moving two agencies and roughly 700 federal employees out of Washington, D.C., to save money and improve the department’s service to taxpayers. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced Thursday that the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will be fully moved out of the nation’s capital by 2020, according to the USDA. A location hasn’t been picked yet. "It’s been our goal to make USDA the most effective, efficient, and customer-focused department in the entire federal government," Perdue said in a statement. "In our Administration, we have looked critically at the way we do business, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the best service possible for our customers, and for the taxpayers of the United States." "In some cases, this has meant realigning some of our offices and functions, or even relocating them, in order to make more logical sense or provide more streamlined and efficient services," Perdue said. As part of the reorganization, Perdue is also moving the Economic Research Service (ERS) out from under the USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics branch. The ERS will be placed back in the Office of the Chief Economist under the authority of the Office of the Secretary. Roughly 700 USDA employees could be moved, E&E News reports.
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Posted by:Besoeker |
#15 Could always move the entire Department of Memoranda to the Pacific Northwest? |
Posted by: Fred 2018-08-11 20:00 |
#14 Move the BIA to Pine Ridge Res. ... |
Posted by: 3dc 2018-08-11 17:56 |
#13 Get the heck out of Dodge. |
Posted by: Bman 2018-08-11 17:08 |
#12 Aren't food stamps USDA's main business? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-08-11 09:47 |
#11 ..I want them to 'feel the Burn'. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-08-11 09:40 |
#10 #8 - you want them to screw up Hatch Chilis? |
Posted by: Frank G 2018-08-11 09:32 |
#9 ...BLM is already scheduled to move - I'm starting to see a pattern here, and one that hasn't really been noticed amidst all the "DOWN WITH KAVANAUGH" wharrgarbl.... Mike |
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-08-11 09:31 |
#8 #6, make it Hatch NM. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-08-11 09:18 |
#7 Should have set this in motion the first week. Most of the dept of agriculture should be moved to farm states. This gets them out of the swamp and closer to those they are responsible for. It will also be cheaper rent and encourage a large number of folks to reaign. Same with EPA, relocate to Alaska and Montana. Etc. |
Posted by: Rjschwarz 2018-08-11 08:34 |
#6 Tucumcari, NM |
Posted by: Frank G 2018-08-11 08:11 |
#5 It’s been our goal to make USDA the most effective, efficient, and customer-focused department Customers? What are those and why should we care? We're the anointed, the rulers any serfs and peasants should be groveling at out feet. |
Posted by: AlanC 2018-08-11 07:47 |
#4 I can almost hear the shuffling of papers as a Federal Judge grants a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the implementation. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2018-08-11 03:09 |
#3 It's the Department of friggin' Agriculture! Makes sense to move where the agriculture is. Out there amongst the cornfields and deplorables, away from the groupthink. It'll be good for 'em. |
Posted by: SteveS 2018-08-11 01:18 |
#2 Since they're virtually un-fire-able, I've always thought that a good way to get rid of the army of pr0n watchers and solitaire players would be to declare that their jobs were moving to Point Barrow. "Your tent city awaits!" |
Posted by: PBMcL 2018-08-11 00:55 |
#1 Bureaucrats are going to be pissed. No more first class DC public schools. They're going to have to rub elbows with the deplorables. |
Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-08-11 00:47 |