Wide demobilization From the Ministry of Agriculture, agricultural scientists delivered vital research in chaos, according to former and current employees at the agency. Scientists who struck workers were working on projects to improve crops, defense against pests and disease, and to understand the climate effect of agricultural practices. Experts also warn that workers’ layoffs are also threatening to undermine billions of taxpayers paid to farmers to support conservation practices.
The demobilization of workers in the US Department of Agriculture is part of the mass shooting of the Trump administration for federal employees, mainly targeting people who are in test periods before obtaining a full -time position, which can reach the U.S. Ministry of Agriculture scholars for a period of three years. The agency did not issue precise shooting numbers, but it is estimated to include hundreds of employees in critical scientific cases 3400 employees In the service of forests.
The employees were informed of the shooting in a comprehensive email sent on February 13 and watched WIRED. “The agency, based on your performance, says that you have not proven that your additional employment in the agency will be in the public interest,” the email says.
One of the exhausted employees described the week before the shooting as “chaos”, as the US Department of Agriculture stopped (in response to this To orders from The Trump Administration) and then unused work (in response to a court order) linked to the IRA (IRA) Law (IRA) – Law of Milestones 2022 that was approved during the era of President Joe Biden, which allocated large sums of federal funds for climate policies. “It was just a pause, the cancellation of the heads, stopped temporarily, is amazing. The former employee, who was working on projects related to wir and asked an unknown to protect them from revenge:“ After four or five working days of that, I think, I can’t accomplish anything literally”.
The Irish Republican Army provided the US Department of Agriculture $ 300 million to help estimate the amount of carbon insulation and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. These funds were aimed at supporting $ 8.45 billion in the benefits of farmers approved in the Irish Republic Practices with possible environmental benefitsLike crop cover and the best waste storage. At least one agricultural project has been turned off by EQIP by the Trump administration, Reuters reports.
Emily Pass, Assistant Director of Federal Policy, Food, Food, Participant Policy for Federal and Food Policy, and Agriculture at the Environmental Research Center, says a penetration institute. This work was partially carried out by the national resource preservation service (NRCS) and the ARS, which are a scientific sub -factors that reach a large extent by federal workers’ demobilization.
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“This is a lot of taxpayers dollars,” Pass says. “Stopping the efforts made by the knee strings in the middle of the road is a large waste of resources that have already been spent.”
One of the current ARS scientists, who spoke to WIRED, claims unknown, as they were not allowed to speak to the press, that in their unity, approximately 40 percent of scientists have been separated with many support staff. The world says that many of their unit projects are now in a state of chaos, including the work that has been planned in five -year courses and requires monitoring a document of plant samples. “In the short term, we can keep these materials alive, but we cannot necessarily do this indefinitely if we do not have anyone in this project.”