Subject: USDA moving out of DC
About time. Put the people ostensibly in charge of talking to farmers near the...farmers.
Trump tried to do this last time but the Swamp People got Biden to reverse.
https://rollcall.com/2025/07/2...
The Agriculture Department on Thursday said it will relocate more than half of its Washington, D.C., workforce to primarily red-state farm areas as it works to shrink its workforce under the Trump administration.
A memorandum signed by Secretary Brooke Rollins said that the reorganization is being conducted in lockstep with the department’s effort to get smaller, having already offered employees deferred resignations, voluntary early retirement and voluntary separation incentive payments.
The memo states that the department is not conducting a large-scale reduction, but notes that as of Thursday, 15,364 employees have taken deferred resignations. The agency had employed about 100,000 people as of last year.
“Focused and limited Reductions in Force will be implemented only if needed,” and only after approval by USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Alexander Vaden, the memo said.