It’s part of their war on government, facts, and science.
Read this about the Trump Admin killing off the science units at the Agriculture Dept. Termination notices are apparently going out now — most of these units will lose almost all their staff. Decades of priceless high-level scientific expertise, all off-loaded indiscriminately: https://t.co/piE1PjLH7e
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 8, 2019
How did “drain the swamp” come to mean pardon Blagojevich and fire all the scientists https://t.co/Sv5284yBPQ
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 9, 2019
At the same time that Trump has destroyed the Agriculture Department's science research division. https://t.co/uAgbSz0qa7
— Diana Butler Bass (@dianabutlerbass) August 8, 2019
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 30, 2019
U.S. Department of Agriculture officials made a behind-the scenes-effort last year to cast doubt on a study co-authored by two University of Washington researchers about how climate change would affect the nutrients in rice. https://t.co/64NMYAskqN
— The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) August 11, 2019
Net farm income has fallen 45% since a high of $123.4 billion in 2013 to about $63 billion last year, according to the US Department of Agriculture. https://t.co/2GyLUE4bgc
— EssenViews (@essenviews) August 11, 2019
While Trump's aid to farmers will help the sector in the short term, the level of subsidies threatens to prompt further and future trade actions against U.S. agriculture
— Chad P. Bown (@ChadBown) August 6, 2019
By Joe Glauber, former USDA chief economisthttps://t.co/POu0F1jshl
USDA shrinks buyout packages for employees who won't relocate to Kansas City https://t.co/FuMR6MrhrF pic.twitter.com/QMij7SJsVo
— Janet Shan (@hinterlandg) August 20, 2019
