The Agriculture Department will move more than half of its workforce away from the nation’s capital and close one of its premier research centers as part of a sweeping reorganization, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Thursday.
The planned reorganization, which will take multiple years to complete, will ripple through USDA, including the Forest Service, and put more employees in offices closer to the largely rural populations the agency serves, the department said.
“President Trump was elected to make real change in Washington, and we are doing just that by moving our key services outside the beltway and into great American cities across the country,” Rollins said in a news release.
She added, “We will do so through a transparent and common-sense process that preserves USDA’s critical health and public safety services the American public relies on.”
