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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Maddow on USDA scientists transcribed here:

Peer reviewed world class science is already happening which U.S. taxpayers have already paid for and is ready to be published.  And the Trump administration is taking that stuff and actively [crumples papers] shutting it down.  Refusing to release that research.
The Trump administration is also right now trying to dismantle a big chunk of the whole scientific capacity at that pioneering agency, USDA.  The Washington Post reports today that it really does seem like this is now going to happen within the next two weeks. 
Quote: These USDA employees face a stark choice: Move or be fired.  Scientists at USDA were recently given a document with two blank boxes on it.  They were told to check one of the two boxes.  Option A, accept a forced transfer a thousand miles away, out of Washington away from USDA and the rest of the federal government, to a city where there are not even offices for them, there is no building to move them into.  Or option B, agree to be fired.  For the crime of refusing to move halfway across the country for no reason.
These are scientists do analyses of global commodity production and the economic impact of various trade policies. 
And these are specifically the scientists who look at the effects of climate change on agriculture.   
As the Trump administration has clamped down on their work, and now announced that hundreds of them will be relocated on zero notice on a mandatory basis to Kansas City and if you don’t move you'll be fired, the scientists themselves are warning that this is going to decimate the ranks of scientists at one of America's premier scientific institutions.  These agencies are going to lose eighty ninety or a hundred percent of their scientists all at once two weeks from today.  [reads quotes]
Scientists were told for the first time on June 13th that they need to move their families immediately or quit. [USDA letter to employees on screen] and they were given one month to make the decision.  They were told they needed to tell the agency which it's going to be, move a thousand miles with your family immediate or be fired. 
And they were given one month to make the decision. 
Which is due Monday July 15th two weeks from today.


Again there is no office or building to move these people into in Kansas City.  The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association [shows AAEA document] did the math and found the cost to U.S. taxpayers will be $80 to $100 million dollars.  For that low-low price we can fire all the scientists in this part of the government.  
Reference https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/01/these-usda-employees-face-stark-choice-move-kansas-city-or-be-fired/?utm_term=.d586b5973630
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Transcript begins at [16:00] in this video 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfl_aUsTcQQ


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