A damaged hallway in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) is seen in a photo taken by an employee three weeks after a 2022 Christmas Day flood and ceiling collapses at the research facility, where employees have now filed whistleblower complaints over working conditions, in Beltsville, Maryland, U.S. January 20, 2023. Ashaki “Teddi” Mitchell/Handout via Reuters