Agriculture Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden on Wednesday vigorously defended the Trump administration’s proposal to reorganize the Agriculture Department at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing.
“President (Donald) Trump made clear his second term would include relocating the sprawling federal bureaucracy to locations outside the National Capital Region,” Vaden said in the testimony. “The department’s July 24 memorandum begins to deliver on this promise and does so in a way that right-sizes the USDA footprint, eliminates unnecessary management layers, consolidates redundant or duplicative functions and, most importantly, allows USDA to deliver on its mission to the American people within the bounds of its available financial resources.” Read more