President Donald Trump’s administration is floating a plan to reorganize two research offices in the US Department of Agriculture, a move that concerned scientists say could cut funding for studies on climate change and nutrition, The Washington Post reports today (August 16).
In the proposal, the Economic Research Service (ERS) would be relocated from the USDA Research, Education, and Economics division to the Office of the Secretary, a political branch of the Agriculture Department. ERS and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) would move out of Washington, DC by the end of 2019, US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced in a press statement August 9.
“In our Administration, we have looked critically at the way we do business, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the best service possible for our customers, and for the taxpayers of the United States,” Perdue said. “In some cases, this has meant ...
