WASHINGTON — Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) issued the following statement in response to Trump's White House budget office memo outlining a plan to continue the mass firing campaign of nonpartisan public servants, including at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“The Trump administration has already taken an axe to 15 percent of USDA’s workforce this year due to the administration's shortsighted, ill-informed actions. To now threaten additional mass firings – in the middle of an economic crisis in farm country – is malicious and cruel and would only further the pain in farm country. I’ve had enough with how much this administration says it loves farmers. And enough of my Republican colleagues who continue to do whatever this administration wants – no matter the cost to rural communities and the ag economy.”