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Originally published on February 2, 2021 7:13 am
During the Trump administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers published and funded objective analyses of issues such as climate change, the efficiency of food assistance programs, and tax cuts that mostly benefit the richest farmers. It wasn t received well. There definitely was hostility in the Trump administration towards federal workers, says Tom Bewick, a national program leader at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. There was also hostility in the Trump administration towards science, and so, if you were a federal employee and a science agency, that was the double whammy.
Trump officials proposed deep cuts to USDA research agencies. When Congress wouldn t go along, the administration came up with plan B: Move two agencies the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Economic Research Service far away from Washington.
Another prominent economist is warning that President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan is too large, adding his voice to that of Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton and top economic adviser for President Barack Obama, who sparked a vigorous debate on the issue with an an op-ed for The Washington Post last week warning that Biden’s plan was risky. Olivier Blanchard, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and past president of the American Economic Association, says he agrees with Summers, suggesting that Biden’s plan may be nearly $1 trillion more that what’s needed and could overheat the economy. “I am known as a dove,” Blanchard wrote as part of a series of tweets over the weekend. “I believe that the absolute priority is to protect people and firms affected by covid. Still, I agree with Summers. The 1.9 trillion program could overheat the economy so badly as to be
From the OECD to the International Monetary Fund, global organizations that traditionally supported fiscal restraint have become much more relaxed about