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Washington D.C. is the capital of a vast federal bureaucracy, much of it useless, and completely out of touch with the people it rules over.
The USDA is one of the best examples. How much non-drug agriculture happens in D.C.? Not a lot.
So the Trump admin is proposing to move a bunch of USDA functions to farm country.
USDA announced on Thursday that the Food Safety and Inspection Service will move about two-thirds of its D.C. metro area workforce out of the region to relocate them to “mission-critical locations,” including new facilities in Iowa and Georgia.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said in a statement that this reorganization ensures FSIS “is positioned where it can best support American agriculture and protect public health.”
“These changes reflect our commitment to modernizing the department while staying focused on delivering results for the American people,” Rollins said.
Last year, USDA said it would relocate more than half of its DC-based workforce to five hubs across the country — Raleigh, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Indianapolis, Indiana; Fort Collins, Colorado; and Salt Lake City, Utah. More than 2,000 USDA employees in the D.C. area will be asked to relocate. In February, the USDA announced plans to sell one of its D.C. headquarters buildings.
The Forest Service is planning to move its headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah.
The local bureaucrats and their selected representatives are taking this about as well as expected.
Rep. Glenn Ivey, who represents Maryland’s 4th District which includes BARC, said lawmakers are disappointed by the decision involving the Beltsville facility, which potentially impacts several hundred people.
He said the state’s congressional delegation believes the action is illegal and lawmakers are willing to go to court if necessary to challenge it.
“We don’t understand the logic behind the move,” he told WTOP. “Certainly, from a scientific standpoint, you’re disrupting decades of research that’s being done and can’t be replicated.”
Democratic lawmakers from Maryland issued a statement in support of the Beltsville center and its mission.
The lawmakers said “it will only end up wasting taxpayer dollars while jeopardizing the success of farmers across the country.”
The ‘logic’ of the move is that it moves the USDA closer to where farmers actually are.
But Maryland Dems are preparing to sue and I’m sure they’ll find a friendly Obama or Biden judge who will invoke the APA to explain why, for the hundredth time, a freely elected administration can’t be allowed to do anything Democrats don’t like.
Thanks, excellent article. I first noticed that kind of thing when remote DC bureaucrats who had no idea what was going on in my area were making decisions for my area.
Sorry amigo, but those DC bureaucrats don’t give a hot damn about your area or anyone else’s. They only say they care because that’s what they are paid to do.
When it comes to government bureaucracy, don’t get your hopes up and certainly lower your expectations. That way you’ll never be surprised and/or disappointed by their callousness, contemptuousness and ineptitude.
Tantamount to this horsecrap, a hell of a lot of residents are leaving California, with many ending up financially ahead. A new report from the California Policy Lab finds that people who relocate out of state are slashing housing costs, boosting their chances of owning a home, and gaining breathing room in their monthly budgets. The study, titled “Priced Out,” tracked migration patterns using anonymized credit bureau data from 2016 to 2025. The takeaway: leaving often pays. On average, movers land in areas where monthly housing costs are about $672 lower. Over time, that adds up to a dramatic shift in financial trajectory. After seven years, those who leave are 48% more likely to own a home compared to those who stay. Researchers say the gap is driven largely by housing prices. “We expected to see people moving to cheaper locations in other states, but our analysis showed the average costs dropping by nearly $400,000,” said Evan White, executive director of the California Policy Lab. “That’s a key data point for families who want to become homeowners.” Even California’s “cheaper” regions remain expensive compared to the rest of the country. Residents pay roughly 11% more for groceries, 40% more for gas, and 61% more for utilities than the national average, according to the report. That cost pressure is pushing people outward, but not necessarily far away. Most movers are heading to neighboring states, with Nevada topping the list, followed by Idaho, Oregon, and Arizona. “I was surprised to see that people were most likely to leave California for nearby states … and not for Texas and Florida, which gets so much media attention and that the world may come to an end in the future,” White said. The trend cuts across income levels. While more high earners are joining the outflow, many show signs of financial strain before leaving, including higher debt and lower credit scores than their peers. The broader implication: cost of living isn’t just a talking point — it’s a tipping point. Policymakers are trying to respond, but change may come slowly. “What happens to California over the long-term is in the hands of policymakers,” White said. “Costs are unlikely to fall dramatically, but we may be able to slow their growth.” For now, the migration continues.
Black homeowners were the first I noticed to move. They could buy property elsewhere for half the price and have the balance left over.
Al Gore moved Navy Personnel Command the memnpohis to benefit his state. <>
A Republican moves anything and it is battle stations,
I had been told that it mnade sense to keep all Military commands in DC because it did things like saved money on moving from 1 command to another..
SO if you move NOPc form a high cost metro to somewhere else why Tenne4ssee and not some other state?
Like Atlanta Georgia, chocacog Illinois or StLuos or Kansas city , Missouri,?
Answer Al Gore.
www.militarynews.com/norfolk-navy-flagship/oceana/news/npc-marks-decade-of-service-from-america-s-heartland/article_a0c4b495-263d-52c5-9e6c-d07b5e3102d5.html
In Australia we have a thing called the Murray-Darling Administrative Board, which is supposed to look after water in the Murray Darling basin.
Their predecessor was based in Albury and had a small staff of people who were actual experts and were based in river towns and cities across the basin, which covers all of inland NSW, Victoria north of the mountains, and a big chunk of inland southern Queensland. It did a good job for decades.
Now it is a bunch of bureaucrats based in Canberra, which although it is located on one of the major rivers in the Basin, is isolated from the rest of it by both geography and the fact of being a parasite city like D.C.
They are cocking it up by the numbers. If they were moved to one of the larger centers out in the agricultural areas of the Basin they’d shed a lot of the Canberra parasites, be much more accessible to the farmers who depend on the water for their livelihoods, and almost certainly do a better job.
It sounds to me like it’s bureaucrats doing what they’re paid to do.
Put bureaucrats in charge of the Sahara desert and I guarantee you that half of the sand would go missing and unaccounted for.
Then the bureaucrats will require more time and money to study the issue of how the sand went missing and why it’s unaccounted for. Then they’ll need more time and money to go through the 10,000 pagers of generated paperwork to make sure all the I’s are dotted and T’s crossed before presented it to yet another bureaucrat government panel for further study.
By the time all that is done, the rest of the sand in the Sahara will be gone and unaccounted for. Then they’ll have to start the process all over again.
Such is the nature of bureaucracy. A money sucking parasite that’s designed to perpetuate and grow itself at the expense of everything else.
Ronald Reagan once said that the nearest thing to eternity that we’ll ever know in life is a government program. In a round about way, he was describing the nature government bureaucracy
Yes, this and more Departments out of D.C., as Northern Virginia Counties have to sell their over-priced homes and move West and South. Recent gerrymandering will be futile, as Dems leave. Now will drink my coffee, thank you for a good thought for-the-day.
YoungT
I would be more in favor of a significant reduction in budget, scope, and headcount than sending DC out to infect all of the states. Render them largely irrelevant, them keep them as far away from the rest of us as possible.
If you move DC bureaucrats out of DC, you have automatically created a reduction in force without actually doing a RIF. Works every time.
There are farms in D.C.?
The “greater” DC area is expensive. Government employees get a 34% cost of living bonus with the bulk of that being housing. Not only will moving employees out of that area mean a 25% payroll deduction but it will reduce congestion in the DC area and hopefully the cost for remaining employees.
As for decades of research, how much of that research is actually being conducted on farms across America centered around universities? Washington State U for example hosts a lot of USDA research. You can see fields within fences dotted with signs identifying it.
The error here is thinking the job of any civil servant is to tend for the people who are affected by his decisions. In truth, the civil servant’s job is to spend taxpayer money, and since that is collected in D.C., that’s where they need to be! The danger of them being near their “constituents” is they might be unduly influenced by those constituents’ needs and interests. \s\
Oh, they understand the LOGISTICS alright, they just don’t want to separate the “Club”! Moving Agencies where they are DIRECTLY involved with the PEOPLE and the PROCESSES is nothing more than COMMON SENSE! This will also identify those who KNOW NOTHING! Much like the poor saps who lost their POSITIONS (not JOBS) when the NGO’s were defunded, many of the “Agricultural Experts” will be exposed as do nothing – KNOW nothing deadwood! Our Gov’t is FULL of parasites – not just the Elected Ones!
I’m not sure what I’d do if one of them were to inhabit a home on my street – I’d be nice and wave at them as I pass them, but would they wave back?? Doubt it!