National Pork Board In a move celebrated by the hog industry, the Trump administration proposed on Monday to put the USDA in charge of regulating genetically engineered livestock and poultry, a duty now performed by the FDA. The Biden administration would make the final decision on the transfer of power since it will take office before the end of the 60-day comment period on the proposal. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the proposal was part of a multiyear modernization of federal oversight of agricultural biotechnology that began in the Obama years. In June 2019, President Trump signed an executive order telling the FDA, USDA, and EPA, which share authority over biotechnology, to update their regulations and, referring to gene-edited crops and livestock, to use their powers “to exempt low-risk products of agricultural biotechnology from undue regulation.”