In testimony on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and Wednesday, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins confirmed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is now looking to fill critical positions, after agreeing to pay more than 15,000 employees’ salaries and benefits through September in exchange for their resignations.
“We are actively looking and recruiting to fill those positions that are integral to the efforts and the key frontlines,” Rollins told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday.
But the need to fill positions so soon after letting people go has raised questions, including from Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
“So you let people go and you’re looking for new people to fill the positions that they had experience in?” Murray asked.
I wish I could. The only maga hat wearing fascist in my job site acts too nice and friendly so I’ll look like a raging hysterical idiot if I openly act like a dick to him. People around me either don’t care or only want to keep the peace in their immediate area. Every day we get more awful news from the administration, hear about how ICE abducts random people, and see how much we’ve alienated ourselves in the international community. Despite all this we still collectively act like everything’s fine. It’s maddening.
Lol, no.
You should totes bring it up.
“Hey, I know you are a nice person-- did you vote for American children undergoing cancer treatment being deported? Are you okay with this?”
Either be silent and accept your fate when they run out of others, or keep fighting