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.
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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