[tanknetter]

Consolidation of government functions to eliminate redundancy and waste, and reducing the number of government staff in the process, is a good thing.

So in concept I can support this if it both reduces government bureaucracy and makes it more efficient.

What I can’t support is it being embedded within HHS. It should properly be within Ag.

[Olog-hai]

Nothing that ever happens in DC is with an eye to reducing government bureaucracy.

[OneWingedShark]

Consolidation of government functions to eliminate redundancy and waste, and reducing the number of government staff in the process, is a good thing.
So in concept I can support this if it both reduces government bureaucracy and makes it more efficient.

Except that these functions do not exist as enumerated powers of Congress [See Art 1, Sec 8], therefore the agencies are, at the federal level, illegitimate.