Stakeholders have suggested to me that the ERS reorganization was proposed because research coming out of the agency didn't align with the administration's views on topics such as SNAP or climate change.
Pingree raises concerns about potential political motivations behind the ERS reorganization.
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It just seems like it would be a horrific time to lose those research capacities and also give up the body of research that we already have.
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