U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse blasted the firing of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top executive in Washington state for ag loans, disaster relief and other programs, as a shortsighted “mistake.”

Jon Wyss, 54, declined to comment when reached by phone Thursday after he was reportedly fired from his post as executive director for the USDA’s Farm Service Agency operations in the state.

Wyss, who lives in Brewster in Okanogan County, was appointed to the post in 2019 during the first Trump Administration.

He was reappointed in 2022 during the Biden Administration and a third time in May after Trump returned to office.

Because of the federal shutdown, no officials could be reached Thursday to ask about his firing. ‘Mistake and a disservice’

However, 4th District Republican Congressman Newh

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