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Under the new administration the DEA (and FDA, etc) risks going extinct.

The DEA may grow because they may start the war on drugs back up. FDA and especially EPA are definitely at risk.

Have a single source to back that up?

I think the evidence merely suggests that his DEA will be ineffective. His initial pick for head of the DEA, Florida sheriff Chad Chronister, went two days [0] from being announced to be being "pulled out" on account of his lack of experience with the border and his arrest of a megachurch pastor for COVID public gathering rule violation [1].

My assumption is that the GP expects that it will be gutted by the Department of Government Efficiency and/or be significantly laid off via Schedule F conversion [2]. However, rules made earlier this year by the OPM should limit that specific method of getting rid of civil servants [3].

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/politics/chad-chronister-trum...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/chad-chronister-trump-withdrawing...

[2] https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f...

[3] https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/04/opm-issues-final-r...

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