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email Democrats Introduce Slew of Bills to Strengthen Protections for Federal Workforce
Lawmakers are pushing to bolster diversity efforts at national security agencies, require greater transparency ahead of agency relocation efforts, and reauthorize the Merit Systems Protection Board.
Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a series of bills aimed at improving protections for federal employees and expanding opportunities for those who belong to minority groups to advance in the national security sector.
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., introduced the National Security Diversity and Inclusion Workforce Act, which would require all national security agencies to publish regular reports on their diversity and inclusion efforts, as well as encourage those agencies to expand on programs that provide professional development and career advancement opportunities in a more equitable manner.
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.
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The Trump administration moved two agriculture agencies to Kansas City, but it’s not working out as planned.
President Joe Biden has been signing lots of executive orders to reverse Trump administration policies, but some parts of the Trump legacy won’t be so easy change. Food and farming research took a major hit over the Trump years, and unwinding that damage means restoring decimated agencies and mistreated employees.
U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers got crossways with the Trump Administration by publishing and funding objective analyses of issues like climate change, the efficiency of food assistance programs, and tax cuts that mostly benefit the richest farmers.
USDA Research Agencies ‘Decimated’ By Forced Move. Undoing The Damage Won’t Be Easy
By Frank Morris
February 2, 2021
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.”
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