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Economy
POTUS' Ag Secretary Leading 22-Agency TF to Reignite Rural America, Protect Forgotten Man
2017-06-17
[Breitbart] In keeping with President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue launched the effort on Thursday along with representatives from 22 federal agencies that are taking on the wide-ranging initiative.

The task force will work to find ways to increase jobs, housing and educational opportunities for America’s rural communities, and to remove obstacles, such as burdensome regulations, and to improve infrastructure and access to technology.

The task force held its inaugural meeting in Washington, D.C., and attendees included Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai, and other government officials.

"What we began here today is to lay a fertile seed bed in rural America, where good things can grow," Perdue said. He went on:
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  Let me know when they overrule odious county building and zoning regulations.
Posted by: Secret Master   2017-06-17 21:22  

#2  Let me know when they get rid of farm subsidies.
Posted by: Raj   2017-06-17 20:26  

#1  The task force will work to find ways to increase jobs, housing and educational opportunities for America’s rural communities, and to remove obstacles, such as burdensome regulations, and to improve infrastructure and access to technology.

Steal one from the 'progs', high speed internet all around. How could they object to one of their own demi-god's creation? Why do business in expensive dangerous cities, when you can be just as efficient in your business in rural America?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-06-17 10:29  

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