The changes are part of the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to cut down and streamline the federal workforce.

Iowa will not host one of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new regional hubs, but the agency might grow in Iowa in a ...

The proposal from Secretary Brooke Rollins calls for cutting 2,600 of the department's 4,600 jobs in the D.C. area and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it plans to relocate thousands of employees to five offices around the country. But the Trump administration's previous plan to move staff to Kansas City, back ...

During Trump's first administration, the USDA in 2019 moved two offices to Kansas City, triggering a mass exodus of government workers and a drop in productivity.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hundreds of jobs are coming to Kansas City with the announcement Thursday that the USDA will relocate two of its offices to the metro. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny ...

More than half of the USDA's employees will relocate to regional hubs around the country, including Kansas City. The regional hubs were selected with cost of living in mind.

The USDA moved hundreds of research jobs to Kansas City in 2019, but more than a year later hundreds of federal research positions remain vacant.

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The Kansas City region was selected from a pool of more than 130 locations that had expressed interest in hosting the agencies. Now, the move is on a fast-track timeline.

Lawmakers questioned motives behind the USDA’s move from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City and said it would hamper research. But a top official said the agency will use cost savings to invest in ...

The USDA said no jobs would be eliminated but that some federal employees would be asked to relocate to one of the five new ...