They’re calling it the “Hunger Games.” 70 USDA employees now have to compete for 6 jobs – or be relocated to an unknown location
The Trump administration's plan to move the National Institute of Food and Agriculture out of Washington has created a cutthroat competition among high-level staffers for a limited number of non-relocation positions that employees liken to a "Hunger Games"-like environment.
Multiple national program leaders told POLITICO that Agriculture Department leadership has reassured them that no one will lose their job if they don't land one of the Washington posts. NIFA workers didn't learn that select employees would be allowed to stay in Washington until a staff-wide meeting in March — or seven months after Perdue announced the relocation proposal, staffers told POLITICO.
Much of the criticism of the plan has focused on the department's motivations for relocating ERS staff and for the potential for its research to be politicized. A number of current and former agency employees previouslythey believe the move is an effort to silence research that could make the White House look bad.
But employees warn that relocating NIFA will compromise the agency's ability to efficiently get research funds out the door. And they're worried that the move and the competitive process for the Washington-based jobs could contribute to people leaving USDA and create a brain drain of research knowledge that has already started to become apparent at ERS, where six economists left on the same day earlier this year.
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