Extensive dismissal According to former and current agency staff, the Ministry of Agriculture scientists have conducted vital research on turmoil. Scientists were working on projects to improve crops, defending pests and diseases, and understand the impact of climate on agricultural practices. Experts warn that the dismissals also threaten to weaken the billions of taxpayers paid to protect farmers for protection practices.
USDA firing is part of the Trump administration’s massive firing from federal employees, which mainly targets people who are in their conditional courses before the full -time situation, which can be up to three years for USDA scientists. The agency has not released a detailed shooting figures, but it is estimated that hundreds of employees will include important scientific subsidiaries and 3400 employees reported in the forest service.
Employees were shot in a blanket email sent on February 13 and were seen by Wired. The email says, “The agency will find that you have shown that your more employment in the agency will benefit public.”
One fired employee described the weeks before the shooting as “chaos” because the USDA paused (in response to Trump’s government orders) and then illegal work (in response to court order) related to inflation reduction law (IRA) – The Milet 2022 law was approved by the President Joe Biden, which abandoned a large amount of federal money for climatic policies. “It was just pause, unpaauuse, pause, unpause,” he said.
The IRA provided USDA $ 300 million to help determine the amount of carbon separation and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. This money to support $ 8.45 billion in the IRA Farmer Subsidies for Costs for Environmental Quality Incentives (EQIP) – Plan to encourage farmers to perform potential environmental benefits, such as harvesting and better waste waste. According to Reuters, at least one agricultural project with the Trump administration has been halted by the Trump administration.
Emily Bus, director of federal, food and and $ 300 million, was supposed to be used to create a greenhouse gas grid that could affect the effectiveness of EQIP and other multibillion -dollar protection programs. Have a dollar monitor. Agriculture at the Institute’s Environmental Research Center achievement. This was partially carried out by the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), with two scientific sub -cases being severely attacked by federal expulsion.
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“This is a dollar of taxpayers, and the work of quantity ARS and NRCS is an important part of measuring the actual impact of those plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” says Bus. “Stopping or hamstering efforts in the middle of the road is to waste a lot of resources that have already been spent.”
A current ARS scientist, who spoke anonymously with wired because they were not allowed to talk to the press, claiming that about 40 % of scientists were fired in their unit with numerous support staff. The scientist says many of their unit projects are now turbulent, including the work planned in the five -year cycles and require careful monitoring of plant specimens. “In the short term, we can keep those materials alive, but if we don’t have anyone in that project, we can’t do it indefinitely.”
