The Agriculture Department’s Trump-era decision to move several offices from Washington to Kansas City missed some key costs and may have been the wrong choice, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog found.
The Government Accountability Office in a report released Thursday criticized the analysis the USDA used in 2019 to decide to relocate staff from two areas—the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture—out of the nation’s capital. The move has repeatedly come under fire over the past few years, after it caused an exodus of employees who opted to leave the agency rather than move from D.C. ...
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