Omaha, along with (AP) – The agricultural department is trying to create several workers who were involved in the government’s reaction to the continued outbreak of bird flu, which has destroyed egg and poultry farms in the past three years.
The workers were among the thousands of federal employees who eliminated the ministry’s recommendations for the government of the billionaire Elon Musk by billionaire Elon Musk, who are committed to the promise of Trump to rationalize and redesign the federal government.
Republican MP Don Bacon said that the administration should be more careful how she carries out the cuts.
“While President Trump fulfills his promise to illuminate light, fraud and abuse in the government, Doge has to measure and cut once. Downsizing decisions have to be tailored to keep critical missions, ”said Bacon, who represents a swing distribution in Nebraska.
The outbreak of bird flu has prompted around 160 million birds to control the virus since the outbreak in 2022. Dozen on average. The federal government has issued almost 2 billion US dollars for the reaction, including almost 1.2 billion US dollars in payments to farmers to compensate them for their lost birds.
A USDA spokesman said that the department “continues to prioritize the response to highly pathogenic Vogel -Influenza (HPAI)”, and several critical jobs such as veterinarians, animal health technicians and other emergency staff involved in the efforts were protected from the cuts. However, some employees of the USDA’s animal and plant health inspection were eliminated.
“Although several aphis positions that support HPAI were informed about their termination at the weekend, we are working on correcting the situation quickly and lifting these letters,” said the department’s spokesman.
Politico and NBC News reported that the eliminated jobs were part of an office in which the national network of Labs USDA is dependent to confirm cases of bird flu and other animal diseases. It was not immediately clear how many employees could possibly try the department and whether one of them worked in the main laboratory in the amount of USDA in Ames, Iowa.
The Trump government officials said this week that the USDA could change its approach to the outbreak of bird flu, so that perhaps entire herds should not be slaughtered when the disease is found, but they still have to provide many details of their plan.
