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STATEMENT: Secretary Vilsack Has the Experience To Hit the Ground Running at the USDA
Date: December 10, 2020
Contact: Julia Cusick
Mara Rudman, executive vice president for Policy at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement:
Secretary Vilsack returns to the USDA with the experience to immediately hit the ground running. He now has the opportunity to lead the department into a new era by tackling some of the country’s most urgent challenges: hunger, corporate concentration in farming, and rural poverty.
The USDA has an important role to play in alleviating poverty and creating agricultural policy that ensures that every American has enough to eat. Secretary Vilsack returns to the agency at a crucial time, when COVID-19 continues to exacerbate America’s long-standing hunger crisis. I know that Secretary Vilsack will invest in efforts to restore, strengthen, and expand the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) the nation’s most effective a