Jordan Wolman

New: USDA plans to cut its workforce by 30,000 people, sweeping across the department's vast mandate, @Marcia_Brown9 and I report subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

We got @SecRollins schedule from her first week @USDA in Feb In D.C., she met w/ @SecKennedy + WH staff, convened farmers, held sessions on bird flu, tariffs, @forestservice And she went to Ky.+ Kansas, got ethics training and went on conservative media Subscribe @Morning_Ag

New: I sat down with former New Hampshire GOP Gov. @ChrisSununu and former Democratic Sen. @HeidiHeitkamp of North Dakota about their new bipartisan rural America initiative. Read to the end for this fun twist on whether Sununu would seek office again subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

Scoop - USDA is canceling billions in IRA-funded grants under its Regional Conservation Partnership Program Latest in efforts by admin to claw back spending on USDA's climate-smart initiatives with @jordanwolman in @POLITICOPro: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

New: @SecRollins just canceled a $3.1B climate ag program, a signature Biden initiative @Marcia_Brown9 with the assist from Pennsylvania, on the road with @USDA subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

NEW from me and @jordanwolman: President Trump wants to create a new federal agency that will be responsible for “all wildland fire fighting nationwide” by 2026, according to a draft EO that’s currently under review at the White House. For @politico: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

NEW for @politico: Farmers are no strangers to trade wars. But after years of high inflation and low crop prices, the farm economy is much weaker than 2018. w/ @jordanwolman, @YarrowGrace, @sambbenson politico.com/news/2025/04/0…

New cuts to the Forest Service include shrinking nine regional offices to three, per two people. Fired and rehired probationary employees likely to be cut again in a reduction in force and more. w/ @jordanwolman subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

RFK Jr. fired thousands of workers at HHS, including at FDA, CDC, NIH Now he told reporters today that 20% of DOGE cuts are a “mistake’ and he expects workers and programs to be “reinstalled” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

More than half of USDA's regional foresters plan to depart. For @politico with @jordanwolman subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

Read today's @Morning_Ag - it's chock full of newsy bits and great insights to start your week From @YarrowGrace, with contributions from @Marcia_Brown9 + me One nugget: Some agencies at @USDA met Friday to discuss reducing the department's workforce politico.com/newsletters/we…

New: Federal workers, Democrats and even some GOP lawmakers want to believe that Trump clipped Musk’s wings Thursday. But many of them aren’t counting on it. "I don’t trust a word of it." w/ @jordanwolman @Marcia_Brown9 @nahaltoosi politico.com/news/2025/03/0…

Tom Schultz will be the new @forestservice chief, per @SecRollins subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

Picking out this nugget from this week's story with @natsfert subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0… Shelter Cove, in @JaredHuffman's California district, is now unsure whether it can complete a wildfire prevention project on its original timeline