USDA to vacate several Washington buildings, relocate staff to regional hubs

The US Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday that it will transport many of its employees in Washington, DC, to five regional axes and evacuate many buildings in the country’s capital, including the pioneering research center.

The agency said in a press statement that there will be no more than 2000 employees of the US Department of Agriculture in the Washington region at the end of the reorganization efforts. The remaining 2,600 people will be transferred to the axes in Rally, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Indianapolis Fort Collins, Colorado; Lake City salt.

The US Department of Agriculture has also said that it will evacuate many sites in the Washington region, including the pioneering research center, the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland, and one of its buildings at the National Commercial Center.

“The American agricultural fodder feeds on this nation and the world, and the Ministry of Agriculture has served in a statement that” the American agricultural administration serves this nation and the world, and a ministry in the past has eliminated better for great farmers, patriots, livestock breeders and producers we support. “President Trump has been elected to make a real change in Washington, and we do so completely by transferring our main services outside Bilatai and to large American cities throughout the country.

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“We will do this through a transparent and logical process that maintains critical public health and safety services in the US Department of Agriculture, the American public depends on,” she added. “We will do properly by the great American people whom we serve in relation to thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees who work hard and who serve their country.”

In a video clip of the employees, Rollins said that the workers’ transfer plan was developed to bring the agency’s employees closer to its “primary voters”.

The US Department of Agriculture’s plan is the latest effort by the Trump administration to reorganize and reduce the federal workforce.

She said in the statement that the agency does not make wide discounts for its employees, although the transportation plan is part of the process of reducing the workforce in the US Department of Agriculture.

She said that a lot of his reduction was through volunteer retirement and the postponed retirement program. More than 15,000 workers, about 15 % of the total workforce, voluntarily chose one of the two financial offers to resign.

The Minister of Agriculture, Brock Rollins, said that the workers’ transfer plan was aimed at making the agency’s employees closer to its “primary voters.” (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images / Getty Images)

Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Republican Senator in Arkansas John Bouzman,; The arrangement member, the democratic Senator at Minnesota Amy Klopochar; The member of the Agricultural Committee in the House of Representatives, the Democrats of Minnesota, Angie Craig, said in statements that have not been consulted on the plan and called for hearings on reorganization efforts.

“The best way to serve our agricultural community is to work together, so the US Department of Agriculture did not participate in disappointment with its plans before this announcement,” Bouzman said.

Craig said that “the planned reorganization announced by the Minister of Agriculture without notice or inputs from congress or the main stakeholders and the electoral districts shows that this administration has failed to learn lessons from similar previous efforts and deliberately risk the effectiveness of agencies and programs that support family farmers in America,” Craig said.

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The US Department of Agriculture will evacuate several sites in the Washington region, including the pioneering research center. (Reuters)

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The US Department of Agriculture also plans to reduce or close some regional offices, including integrating national agricultural statistics service, which publishes agricultural market data, from twelve offices to five, according to a memorandum from the agency.

In addition, the forest service will close its nine regional offices during the next year in a plan “will take into account the continuous firefight season.”

Agricultural research service employees have already struggled with the work burden after voluntary resignation, according to employee Ethan Roberts.

“Many will not take [relocation] He said that the offer, and we will lose more administrative employees who suffer from the daily importance of the US Department of Agriculture and ARS.

Reuters contributed to this report.