Over 95 percent of the BLM staff work in the field, far from Washington, yet the administration seems hellbent on sabotaging this agency.
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Yet again, the Trump administration is attempting to disrupt the lives of hundreds of federal employees and sabotaging their important work.https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/07/15/interior-move-one-fifth-bureau-land-managements-dc-staff-out-west-part-larger-reorganization-push/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.af95d9645179 …
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The small number of Washington-based staff serve the vital role of working with Congress and the president and keeping them informed of BLM activities.
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@washingtonpost notes that in the 1990s, BLM moved its wildfire staff out West, only to move them back when Congress demanded briefings on new wildfires.Show this thread -
Just as I have fought the misguided, politically motivated relocation of USDA, I will fight this relocation with all tools at my disposal.
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