USDA relocation plan faces more congressional backlash

USDA relocation plan faces more congressional backlash

House Democrats are putting more pressure on the Department of Agriculture, urging the agency to turn over its internal planning documents as it prepares for a major relocation effort. In an Aug. 7 letter to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, Democratic lawmakers raised alarms about what they described as a lack of transparency and communication to Congress over the agency’s plans to relocate about 2,500 federal employees from Washington, D.C., to m…