The Agriculture Department is eliminating seven panels established to advise the agency on policy implementation, regulatory oversight, and research priorities.
Advisory committees are being scrapped in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive order to slim down the federal workforce, according to a Monday notice posted on the Federal Register. The panels were designed to offer insights from industry professionals, research experts, and government employees about how USDA’s operations and programs could be improved to serve industry and consumers better.
Though several committees have been operating for decades, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins determined “they were no longer necessary,” the notice said. ...