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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
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January 24, 2017 - Activity in the hallways of USDA’s D.C. headquarters is still muted, but Trump administration officials are starting to fill up the political-appointee offices. New faces in the communications department, Rural Development and other agencies are beginning to filter in.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2017 - President Donald Trump only took office Friday, but he and his administration are already moving forward on some key campaign promises.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2017 - President Donald Trump moves ahead with filling out his new administration after taking early action to stall some of Barack Obama's last-minute regulations. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, will head to a retreat this week to discuss how to replace the Affordable Care Act.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2017 - The Trump administration has delayed a new Agriculture Department rule that sets standards of proof for livestock and poultry producers who believe they have been harmed by processors' business practices.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2017 – J. Christopher Giancarlo today was designated acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that oversees the commodity futures, options and swaps industry.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2017 - Donald Trump assumed the presidency today with a strong, populist pledge to rebuild the economy and the nation’s infrastructure by putting American interests first.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2017 - Sam Clovis, Donald Trump’s top farm policy adviser during the presidential campaign, will be leading the transition group installing his team and policy at the Agriculture Department.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 – Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry promised senators today that he is capable of running the Energy Department and has changed some key beliefs since famously saying during a past presidential bid that the department should be abolished.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - After the longest search for a USDA chief in modern history, President-elect Donald Trump will nominate for agriculture secretary former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, a longtime rural agribusinessman who originally trained as a veterinarian.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 – Democrats and Republicans at a Senate hearing today offered distinctly different visions of the role of the Environmental Protection Agency if Donald Trump nominee Scott Pruitt is confirmed to lead the agency.
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