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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly IMO -- the effect will be almost negligible.

The majority of federal jobs being moved are middle management and paper pushers for satellite offices.

So yes - USDA is heading to Kansas/Missouri, 3.5K of FBI is moving to Alabama, and BLM is moving...somewhere. But DoD is going nowhere, the majority of high security contractors are staying here and the lobbyists and tech developers (the real moneymakers) are growing.

I will happily take the 30,000 Amazon employees, 1,000 Google employees, and a couple hundred Facebook employees, and all of the New York millionaires moving down here in exchange for the loss of 4,000 or so feds moving to the middle of the country. Not to mention the relocation of Virginia Tech's campus and John Hopkins.

D.C. is booming.

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The issue is that consultants, contractors and all of those highly paid lobbying/lawyer jobs come to this region precisely because federal agencies exist in this region.  Are big ag consultants gonna stay here or have to move to Kansas too if they have to lobby the agency when they are working on a product?  If the FDA ever left, tons of pharma lobbyists and lawyers would have to leave and go where the agency would relocate.  [/quote]

Except you’ve got it wrong. They aren’t lobbying the FDA. They are lobbying Congress AGAINST the FDA.

Same for all other lobbying firms and their respective federal counterparts. Which means they’ll stay right here and that all the feds displaced will have to spend more money in their line item budgets traveling [i]to[/i] DC in order to lobby the seat of government on behalf of themselves and their projects.

Which means more tourism revenue for DC. Bottom line - it’s good for us regardless.[/quote]

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