USDA Ethics Program

What this funds

The Office of Ethics (OE) is the sole office that operates the Department's Ethics program and implements the statutory and regulatory requirements to raise employee awareness and compliance with ethics laws. OE's work enhances the public's confidence in the integrity of USDA's workforce, programs and initiatives. Because OE is a consolidated office there are no redundant ethics programs in the mission areas. OE is the only office which conducts ethics vetting for incoming Administration appointees, provides daily ethics advice to USDA employees Department-wide, and provides post-employment counseling for departing USDA officials. Despite a proposed adjustment in funding, OE is fully committed to maintaining its high standards and delivering all essential services without compromise. The office will strategically optimize its existing resources and leverage the deep expertise of its dedicated current staff to seamlessly absorb the duties associated with two ethics advisor vacancies. This proactive approach demonstrates OE's exceptional adaptability and unwavering commitment to its crucial mission. Through this resourceful strategy, OE will continue to ensure all USDA employees and political appointees uphold the highest ethical standards, effectively utilizing every available resource to safeguard the Department's integrity and public confidence.

Extracted from Office of Ethics, p. 6. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

Contracts funded by this line

1659 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

Showing 8 of 1659 — most confidently matched first, largest within a confidence tier. These are not necessarily the largest 8.

Confidence mix · 1659 medium

Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.

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