Trump Administration Unveils Government Reorganization Plan

The White House released a 132-page plan that would make major changes in U.S. government agencies, including moving the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) out of USDA and into a reconfigured Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which would be named the Department of Health and Public Welfare.It would also seek to move the food safety functions from USDA and FDA to one agency – the Federal Food Safety Agency. Plus, it would move some USDA housing programs to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and move some functions of the Army Corps of Engineers to a civil works agency.However, most of the changes suggested in the report require congressional approval and indications are there is little appetite in Congress to make the kinds of changes the administration is proposing, giving the full plan extremely low odds of happening.