Farmers across the country rely on their local USDA offices for a range of services, including conservation programs and crop insurance support, but concerns are growing that these services could ...

Republican House appropriators said the proposed 2026 spending levels reflect efforts to “rightsize” many agencies outside of ...

Six months into her tenure, Brooke Rollins has reduced USDA staff, sidelined science, shifted agency culture, and expanded DOGE’s influence.

Rollins, who was asked about staff cuts several times, said that overall USDA staffing had expanded significantly under President Joe Biden—by more than 20,000 employees—and that reductions would save ...

USDA cuts leave food aid groups and farmers struggling 02:56. Four days a week, Maile Auterson and one of her employees drive hundreds of miles across Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas to deliver ...

By the time the hiring freeze lifts this fall, agencies will have been largely unable to hire new federal employees or fill vacant roles for nine months.

A U.S. district judge in San Francisco had temporarily blocked large-scale federal layoffs known as "reductions in force." ...