The administration’s “reorganization” plan for the USDA will upend the important services that the Department of Agriculture provides to American communities, and disrupt the lives of many dedicated public service workers who provide those services.
The plan will effectively cut important jobs, disrupt the delivery of important services, and force workers to choose between uprooting their lives to move across the country or lose their jobs.
While the administration continues to hide behind the language of “efficiency” and “bureaucracy,” federal workers know what this really is: an attempt to purge dedicated USDA civil service employees and replace them with partisan ideologues who will do the White House’s bidding.
This plan may be starting at USDA, but we’ve seen how this administration works. It won’t end there unless we stand together and fight back.