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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/2025/07/24/agriculture-depart...

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.

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Put the people ostensibly in charge of talking to farmers near the...farmers.

This statement proves you do not have a clue about the USDA. The USDA people who "talk to the farmers" are already in the field. Much of the bureaucracy is (or was) in DC because it provides a centralized location for all the NON-FARMERS (i.e. corporations) with which the USDA has to deal.

Now, given the NON-CENTRALIZED USDA bureaucracy, all those NON-FARMERS will have to place people in EACH area where the branches are being relocated. That just RAISED THE COSTS of those NON-FARMERS quite substantially.

Let's do the same thing for ALL the other federal depts. After all, you have already stated you ARE willing to "pay the price"--whatever it will be.

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