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More than half of the Bureau of Land Management employees whose positions were relocated out of Washington, DC have left the bureau. The Hill obtained new internal numbers showing that 87 employees left BLM's DC office in the weeks after the reorganization was announced.
80 employees agreed to the move, but it won't be clear for several more weeks how many of those employees actually relocate, since agreeing to move gave them 120 days to report to their new duty location. That window closes later this month.
Former BLM employees, including top career official Steve Ellis, have warned for months that this was the likely outcome—as well as the aim—of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and acting BLM head William Perry Pendley.
“This is a huge brain drain,” Ellis told The Hill. “There is a lot of really solid expertise walking out the door.”
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You’ve got one of the world’s most endangered species involved, so you’d think it’s a time to be true to the science. You would hope science will prevail over politics here.”
