
E&E News | Could Marcia Fudge change USDA for people of color?
Rep. Marcia Fudge had lost her patience with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue by February 2019. At a hearing nearly two years earlier, in May 2017, the Ohio Democrat had let Perdue go on at length describing his goals for reorganizing the Department of Agriculture. Running it like a corporate CEO would bring better results to rural America, he’d said.