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USDA Fired Employees Working on Avian Flu Outbreak in Latest DOGE Purge

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“I just wish they’d make a better decision up front,” Republican congressman Don Bacon told NBC News, of the Trump administration’s cuts to USDA programs.

Sean Craig
Sean Craig
USDA workers disinfected a work crew at a Jennie-O turkey farm in Eden Valley, Minnesota, at the end of a day, Thursday, April 30, 2015.
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