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Perdue on board with finding 5% budget cuts
Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says he’s on board with making a five-percent cut in the next USDA budget, “Any good agency, any good manager, any good secretary can look into their budgets and do more with less, certainly five-percent, and put that to Congress.”
President Trump has called on all government agencies to reduce their budgets by five-percent to help reduce the deficit. Perdue tells Brownfield that can be achieved at the ag department, “The economy’s growing thanks to President Trump’s policies – economic policies. Now the time is to focus on fiscal discipline and we’re prepared to do that in the USDA. We can do that.”
One cost-cutting proposal already in the works by the Ag Secretary is to move the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture out of D.C. Perdue did not tell Brownfield what other cuts might be made at USDA.
Mr. Perdue, you should really take a look at the NRCS offices. I know in our County there are more Employees than needs to be. They spend more time out of the office and I don’t mean working. I have been in this line of work for 30 years and that is one of the biggest waste within the USDA. They waste Government hours with the paperwork that is already submitted to the FSA Office. Which gets lost or misfiled etc…. Just saying.
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