More than a dozen recently fired USDA employees told Investigate Midwest the terminations have stalled irrigation projects, rural housing aid and efforts to combat invasive crop diseases. Remaining staff are overwhelmed, and farmers may not receive needed and timely help.
A Cedar Rapids VA worker who aided fellow veterans seeking care, and a former student employee of the year who conducted agricultural research for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Ames are among the more than 200,000 federal workers without a job amid President Donald Trump's and billionaire Elon Musk’s ongoing efforts to slash the government workforce.
Musk and Trump administration face other lawsuits challenging billionaire’s access to government data
This week on the podcast, Iowa’s version of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law is back in the courts and the Legislature, Middle East tensions come to the Iowa Capitol, and Gov. Kim Reynolds talks DOGE and Lutheran Services.
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