Build back better? One department’s turmoil shows Biden’s challenge ahead.(Politico)

Politico published an article on that for President-elect Joe Biden, reversing changes and reviving morale in many parts of the executive branch won’t be easily done with the stroke of a pen and an executive order. The Trump administration’s overhaul of two critical agencies at the Agriculture Department shows how some of the disruptions are much stickier. The abrupt relocation in mid-2019 of some USDA offices from D.C. to Kansas City resulted in a wave of career-service employees leaving, hundreds of economic and research positions left unfilled, and delays of dozens of vital research reports on topics like conservation, nutrition assistance, and the farm economy. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber said, “It’s hard to pretend it never happened.  You’ve uprooted everyone’s lives; you had all these people quit — it’s a tough situation.”