Derek Copeland Fired from USDA
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DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
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The USDA lost about a fifth of its trainers and support staff when 6,000 employees were let go at the USDA in February as part of a government-wide purge orchestrated by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency .
“These aren’t your average people,” says Mike Lahar , the regulatory affairs manager at US customs broker behemoth Deringer .
Customs and Border Protection deploys the dogs trained by Copeland and other staffers at the National Dog Detection Training Center .
As the fired USDA workers wait to hear whether their reinstatements will actually take place, ports are beginning to feel their absence.
The price of missing a threatening pest is “wiping out an entire agricultural commodity,” says Lahar .
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