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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Republican U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson told KELOLAND News Friday the DOGE cuts of federal employees have been a disruption the country has needed for years.
Widespread layoffs and funding freezes and office closures across the country have been ordered by Elon Musk’s, Department of Government Efficiency. Reuters reported around 62,000 federal layoffs from 17 agencies across the country, including offices and workers in South Dakota.
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Johnson said he spoke with Musk on Wednesday and Musk “understands that there have been some of disruptions,” Johnson said in an interview with KELOLAND News on Friday.
“Any time you’re gonna change a big, underperforming organization, there’s gonna be some problems en route to getting to a better place,” Johnson said.
In South Dakota, at least 13 federal offices were listed on DOGE’s real estate closures, including the Codington County Farm Services Agency in Watertown, National Park Services office in Yankton, the Office of Hearing and Appeals and the National Indian Gaming Commission in Rapid City.
According to the DOGE website, the 13 real estate closings in South Dakota have saved the federal government $1,572,700 so far.
“I know Elon’s heart is in the right place,” Johnson said. “When we’ve made mistakes, of course we’ll come back around and we’ll make sure we do right by those areas, but overwhelmingly, on net, these things are moving us in the right direction.”
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A USDA grant has been frozen for the Brandon farm and egg producer Fruit of the Coop, the business said in a Facebook post. The Eat Well Sioux Falls Mobile Market also has lost a USDA Business Builder Grant that was being used to pay one salary of the mobile market’s two-person staff.
KELOLAND News has had three news stories about federal workers with South Dakota ties getting cut from their jobs.
“It was just like a gut punch. I did not see it coming, you know, I had nothing but exemplary performance my entire time in the Park Service. I was being told that I was being terminated simply because I was a probationary employee,” Lydia Jones, an employee at the Badlands National Park, told KELOLAND News.
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