Reposted from: https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/21931-incoming-trump-administration-could-determine-fate-of-usda-competition-rules
When President Donald Trump took office in 2017 for the first time, his Agriculture Department swiftly rolled back Obama-era efforts to strengthen enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act. Now that he’s won reelection, his administration will once again decide the fate of a new set of Biden Administration competition proposals and rules.
His next administration may well follow a similar course, scrapping a slate of proposals aimed at bolstering grower protections under the Packers and Stockyards Act. But with many new advisers at Trump’s side and more to be named, it’s possible the policies of his next term will diverge from those of the past.
“We clearly believe that, at this point in his transition back to the White House, he is not going to repeat his last administration,” Farm Action Fund President Joe Maxwell told Agri-Pulse.
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