{"id":8904,"date":"2025-02-26T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mass-federal-firings-may-imperil-pets-cattle-and-crops\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:16:54","slug":"mass-federal-firings-may-imperil-pets-cattle-and-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mass-federal-firings-may-imperil-pets-cattle-and-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Federal Firings May Imperil Pets, Cattle and Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Shortly after taking office for the second time, President Trump began making deep cuts to agencies and programs that play critical roles in human health, slashing funding for medical research, halting global health aid and firing scores of workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the campaign to downsize government, which has been led by Mr. Trump and Elon Musk, has also hollowed out agencies and programs devoted to protecting plant and animal health. The recent wave of mass firings hit federal workers responding to the nation\u2019s growing bird flu outbreak, protecting crops from damaging pests and ensuring the safety of pet food and medicine, among other critical duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although the government has since rescinded some of these firings, the terminations \u2014 combined with a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-executive-orders-list.html\" title=\"\">federal hiring freeze<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-buyouts-federal-workers.html\" title=\"\">buyout offers<\/a> \u2014 are depleting the ranks of federal programs that are already short on employees and resources, experts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The damage could be long-lasting. Workers whose jobs were spared said that the upheaval had left them eyeing the exits, and graduate students said they were reconsidering careers in the federal government. The shrinking work force could also have far-reaching consequences for trade and food security and leave the nation unequipped to tackle future threats to plant and animal health, experts said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese really were indiscriminate firings,\u201d said John Ternest, who lost his job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he was preparing to conduct studies on honeybee health and crop pollination. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what we\u2019ve lost until it\u2019s potentially too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-b3baeac\">Plant and animal inspectors<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The most recent wave of firings focused on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-musk-doge-federal-workers.html\" title=\"\">the roughly 200,000 \u201cprobationary\u201d employees<\/a> across the federal government, who had fewer job protections because they were relatively new to their positions. (For some roles, the probationary period can be as long as three years, and it can also reset when longtime employees are promoted.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The exact size and scope of the job losses remain unclear, and the U.S.D.A. did not answer questions about the number of workers who had been terminated or reinstated at several of its agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in an emailed statement, a U.S.D.A. spokesman said that Brooke Rollins, the new secretary of agriculture, \u201cfully supports President Trump\u2019s directive to optimize government operations, eliminate inefficiencies and strengthen U.S.D.A.\u2019s ability to better serve American farmers, ranchers and the agriculture community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Reports suggest that the department <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-musk-doge-federal-workers.html\" title=\"\">has lost thousands of employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That includes roughly 400 people who worked in its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, according to one U.S.D.A. official who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation. The plant protection and quarantine program within APHIS was especially hard hit, losing more than 200 employees, including agricultural inspectors, entomologists, taxonomists and even tree climbers who surveyed for pests, the official said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of the fired workers were responsible for combating invasive, plant-killing insects, such as the Asian long-horned beetle, within the nation\u2019s borders. Others worked to ensure that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/health\/trump-border-health-inspections.html\" title=\"\">agricultural products entering<\/a> and exiting the country were free of pests and pathogens. Exotic fruit flies pose a particular risk to American agriculture, including the citrus and berry industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The terminations are already causing import delays at the nation\u2019s ports, according to the U.S.D.A. official. Over the longer term, if agricultural pests and pathogens found their way into the country, they could infest the nation\u2019s homegrown crops, threatening food security and reducing demand for American agricultural products abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf the United States gets a reputation for having dirty products, does that mean other countries will also, you know, step in and say, \u2018Hey, we don\u2019t want to buy your goods\u2019?\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The firings also hit the agency\u2019s veterinary services program, which inspects imported livestock for disease and plays a key role in the nation\u2019s bird flu response, said Dr. Joseph Annelli, the executive vice president of the National Association of Federal Veterinarians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The U.S.D.A. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/bird-flu-fired-workers.html\" title=\"\">has quickly rehired<\/a> some of the employees who were involved in the bird flu response, suggesting that their firings had been a mistake. But even before the recent terminations, the government was short on veterinarians, Dr. Annelli said. \u201cThere has not been adequate staffing for at least 10 years,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need more veterinarians, not less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The agency was in the midst of hiring additional people to assist with the bird flu response, Dr. Annelli said, but the federal hiring freeze put that process on hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The workers who remain are nervous about the long-term stability of their jobs. \u201cI\u2019m not very optimistic,\u201d said one current veterinary services employee, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation and has already applied for another position outside the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2f0f2ac5\">Agricultural scientists<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Roughly 800 people, including the leaders of laboratories, were also fired across the Agricultural Research Service, the in-house scientific agency at the U.S.D.A, according to a department official who was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The firings brought a wide range of research projects to an abrupt halt and left the technicians and the students who worked in these labs in limbo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One New York lab was in the middle of investigating a potential outbreak of late blight, a potato disease, when the lead scientist was fired, said Isako Di Tomassi, a graduate student at Cornell University who worked in the lab. Potato samples from a large, commercial farm are now locked up in the shuttered lab, \u201cuntouched and untested,\u201d Ms. Di Tomassi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scientists and statisticians working in the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Nebraska, which studies livestock genetics and breeding, were also terminated, including those working on research projects in food safety and salmonella testing. The firings have led to objections from Nebraskas\u2019s Republican congressional delegation and industry groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe understand and respect the federal government\u2019s desire to cut wasteful spending, but the truth of the matter is, U.S. MARC does not fall in that category,\u201d the Nebraska Cattlemen Association said in a statement. The work being done at the center, the statement continued, \u201chas potential to reduce costs for the beef industry long term and improve food safety for consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some \u2014 but not all \u2014 of the agency\u2019s scientists were reinstated this week. Still, the mass firings could do lasting reputational damage to the agency, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think that people that want to earnestly do science are going to be viewing and remembering these decisions and how scientists are being treated,\u201d said one agricultural researcher who was fired and then rehired and requested anonymity to protect the job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In interviews, several graduate students in agricultural science said that they were no longer sure whether they could build research careers in the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy future as a scientist seems very uncertain right now,\u201d Ms. Di Tomassi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGetting a federal scientist position is a big deal,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to do, and all of that investment is now being let go.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3d7fde55\">Animal health regulators<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention primarily concerns itself with human health, the agency also aims to prevent zoonotic diseases, including by regulating the entry of animals \u2014 particularly those than can carry pathogens \u2014 into the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For example, the agency does not permit dogs that have recently been in countries with a high prevalence of rabies to enter the United States unless they have been vaccinated against the disease. C.D.C. officers also examine animals at port stations, and isolate or quarantine those exposed to dangerous pathogens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the Trump administration recently dismissed about half of the C.D.C. employees at the agency\u2019s 20 port health stations, leaving some stations entirely unattended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Calls to the port station in San Juan, P.R., last week were rerouted to the station in Miami, where a C.D.C. employee who declined to be identified said that no one would be at the San Juan post \u201cfor a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Workers were also fired from the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s Center for Veterinary Medicine. Among those affected were employees reviewing data on novel animal medicines and working to ensure that pet food and animal feed were free of contaminants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those teams were already short-staffed, said two fired employees, who asked not to be identified because they are appealing their terminations. They worried that the losses could slow down the approval of new animal drugs and even cause dangerous products to fall through the cracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s a gap in the safety structure,\u201d one of the employees said. \u201cThey\u2019re big challenges and there\u2019s no one else to take it on. 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