Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Before he received his termination notice, he says, Copeland had just spent ...

More than 15,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture employees have taken one of the Trump administration's two financial incentive offers to leave the agency, according to a readout from a USDA briefing ...

It’s the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration ... “This decision affirms that impacted USDA employees should be judged based on their own job performance and not on the perceptions ...

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USDA is among the agencies that twice invited employees to quit their jobs through the deferred resignation program — once in late January when the deal was presented to nearly the entire ...

A sign at the National Centers for Animal ... We aren't bureaucrats' Also caught up in the job cuts was Ron Gregory. He worked for a USDA plant protection and quarantine office in Wyoming, but ...

Probationary workers, meaning those who have been in their positions about a year or less, lost their jobs at USDA beginning on February 13. The reason the Trump administration gave for the ...

An independent federal agency has ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to temporarily give more 5,000 employees fired since Feb. 13 their jobs back, finding reasonable grounds to ...

Peterson served in the U.S. Army and was hired for his USDA job through the Veterans’ Recruitment ... want to do good conservation work, want to sign up for farm bill programs, to make sure ...

Overall, nearly 6,000 probationary workers — new employees who’d been on the job less than a year or workers who’d been promoted — were eliminated from USDA, including other highly ...