Whistleblower: Federal agency’s HQ is ’empty’; Vilsack says work is getting done
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reacted angrily to a whistleblower’s complaint that his headquarters is a post-pandemic telework “ghost town,” calling that an insult to “the USDA family.” Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican, confronted him at a committee hearing with data from the Government Accountability Office saying his Washington headquarters building had an 11% occupancy rate. […]