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DOGE cuts agency funding to fight pests as bed bugs, now has bed bugs.

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A federal pest-control agency that suffered budget and staff cuts under Trump is now stuck with a bed bug infestation, according to reports.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which protects agriculture from pests, is dealing with a bed bug takeover at the Agriculture Department building, according to reporting by NOTUS.
One USDA employee told NOTUS that the irony of the situation "was lost on no one." Headquarters News noted on X that DOGE slashed the APHIS budget and fired its employees.
The George Washington Carver Center in Beltsville, Maryland, which houses a few USDA agencies, reportedly told employees about the bed bug problems in May, five employees told NOTUS, which also looked at a town hall meeting transcript. --HERE
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The horror! :eek:

This is a ridiculously desperate argument. Overcutting is part and parcel of budget cuts. Complaining about bed bugs after tens of billions of dollars of budget cuts is like someone complaining about the incision marks after an organ transplant. It's true: you really can't make this stuff up. :rolleyes:

Besides, if a pest control agency can't avoid bed bugs then they're obviously in the wrong line of work. The average American avoids bed bugs without special funding from the government.
 
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Maybe they just want to telecommute? :)

A USDA spokesperson also attributed the bed bugs’ reemergence to employee negligence. The spokesperson declined to explain why employees have not been offered another chance to work remotely.

“Not allowing employees to telework while the office is infested with bed bugs is an unnecessary significant risk to U.S. cattle health, with experts dealing with the NWS situation forced to go home if they don’t want to get bed bugs,” one employee said."


From Notus Article.
 
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