Summary: When the Agriculture Department launched its One Neighborhood initiative just over a year ago, the broad goal focused on two “Cs”— collaboration and cost savings. Now a year later, the initial success of One Neighborhood convinced Congress to increase USDA’s discretionary funding to renovate and fix its buildings. At $128 million, it's twice as much as the department received in 2019. Don Bice recently left after 32 years in government, including the last two-plus years as USDA’s acting deputy assistant secretary for administration. He told Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller about the impact of the One Neighborhood initiative that convinced Congress to open up its wallet a little wider. Hear more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
