Phyllis Fong, the former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture who was recently fired by the Trump White ...

Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran, said the Trump administration had not followed proper protocols, according to Reuters ...

The first Trump administration's strategy caused a "brain drain" and a generational blow to American agricultural research.

Less than a fortnight in office, President Donald Trump has quickly targeted federal employees in his attempt to remake the ...

Senators’ top questions for Rollins included how she would support U.S. agriculture as Trump rolls out his tariff and mass deportation plans.

Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the Agriculture Department, had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House fired her Friday.

President Donald Trump’s flirtation with taking Greenland is not a new American pastime. For more than a century, United States officials have been eager to gain access to the island’s vast deposits ...

The USDA, however, denied that security officials ... Since Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has fired several government employees across dozens of agencies. Inspectors general are one of many ...

In a statement to HuffPost prior to Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, a USDA spokesperson called ERS and NIFA “two of our nation’s premier scientific institutions” and said that under the ...

In a dramatic turn of events, Phyllis Fong, the USDA Inspector General, was escorted out of her office for refusing to comply with her dismissal by the Trump administration. This incident raises ...

With Donald Trump’s hands yet again on the levers of power, what happened at the USDA is just the start. Trump campaigned last year on a promise to “dismantle the deep state,” and his pick to lead the ...