Two federal judges and an independent agency that assesses the decisions of government officials Ordered It sacked USDA employees. Earlier this week, the USDA said it had been stopping the terms for 45 days and “withdrawing from a step -by -step plan for duty.” But the affected staff lives in the dark about their future, and the Trump administration has indicated that it will fight court decisions to restore employees, with the White House press secretary Crown Levit. Call One of these decisions “ridiculous and unconstitutional.”
Since these legal and regulatory battles are underway, Hadika says it expects a lot of trouble -down effects, such as more than the local market warfare, in which major cities and major grocery chains will be better than mother and pop and rural communities. Hadika says that allowing shipping containers to sit without some extent can affect other sectors, as delays will prevent them from reuse for other types of goods. He says, “These containers have to move the goods every day, and now they stand somewhere.”
US Customs Broker John S. James Director of Trade Compliance Kat Johnson has also predicted an increase in prices and waste. But what raises the most alarm for him is the possibility of inspection of invasive species through the creeks. He says the cost of losing threatening insects is “wiped out a whole agricultural commodity,” he says, “an event in which” not only economic but national security effects. “
Eliminating the agriculture department may also have the results of the US Customs and Border Protection, which deployed dogs trained by Coopeland and other staff at the National Dog Detection Training Center. The CBP also works with USDA in other ways, especially at admission locations. Both agencies run the Agricultural Quran Inspection Program, but it has been financed by the USDA. Many animals and plant health inspection service programs do not rely on taxpayers’ dollars. Collect fees From importers and other players in the industry. In this way, it subsidizes some CBP agriculture activities. The CBP did not respond to a comment.
Since the ousted USDA workers wait to hear whether their restoration will really happen or not, the ports are beginning to feel their absence. “So many inspections are not being carried out, and we are not just in danger,” says Lahar. “This endanger our farmers and food chains.”
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