Trump’s Under-Radar Farm Chief Remakes Agency, Avoids Boss’s Ire
- Perdue pursues deregulation, business-friendly policies
- Former Georgia governor shows ‘Trump administration at work’
Sonny Perdue.
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In a town where deregulation is king, Sonny Perdue rules. Rather quietly.
Perdue is the U.S. secretary of agriculture, running an agency with a $140 billion budget and a low profile. His traveling press corps, when there is one, can squeeze into the back of a van. He may be the most aggressive enforcer of President Donald Trump’s pro-business and deregulatory agenda that the fewest Americans have ever heard of.