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Trump nominates a GOP cover-up expert as ambassador

In September, President Trump announced that he would nominate Georgia attorney Randy Evans to be the United States’ ambassador to Luxembourg. On the White House website they describe Evans as “a distinguished attorney, author and public servant,” but this hardly describes him. Evans has a long list of high profile clients in the GOP. His clients include Newt Gingrich, Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal. Among other things, Evans helped Deal through his seven-year corruption scandal

Healthcare

Sonny Perdue’s assault on the working poor

Food stamp policy is going to change, and not for the better. Enter Georgia’s own Sonny Perdue, who serves as the Secretary of Agriculture under the Trump administration. He has been panning the food stamps program, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), all year. There’s been a push — both in this state and across the nation — to go back to having a work requirement. If you are an able-bodied adult,

Trump

Sonny Perdue brings business buddies to the USDA

In the past few weeks, agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue has moved to change school lunches,  issued a “religious liberty” order and tried to reassure America’s farmers about U.S. trade policy. With such ambitious goals, he’s going to need a lot of help, perhaps that’s why he’s appointing two of his known business associates to the USDA. After Perdue was appointed by Trump, Politico launched an investigation into Perdue’s list of appointments while governor. The investigation,

Education

Sonny Perdue wants unhealthy school lunches

One of Michelle Obama’s signature accomplishments was increasing the health standards of school breakfasts and lunches, which feed 31 million children in the United States. Although obesity has more than tripled in the past forty years, Sonny Perdue wants to undo Michelle Obama’s work and decrease the health standards of school lunches. “I feel that we have made such progress in schools meals over the past five years,” said Miriam Nelson, a public health researcher

Climate

Nothing to celebrate with Perdue appointment

The Senate just confirmed Georgia’s own Sonny Perdue as the Dept. of Agriculture Secretary. But unfortunately there isn’t much to celebrate. Perdue’s history aligns him with Donald Trump’s disastrous policy choices. Perdue’s history includes killing forest conservation programs, engaging in tax evasion and promoting anti-immigrant policies predating Trump’s own brand of xenophobia. Neill Herring, a Gold Dome stalwart and lobbyist for the Sierra Club in Georgia, expressed his concern that Perdue’s confirmation will lead the

Climate

Sonny Perdue, a disastrous pick for forest conservation

President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of agriculture, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, doesn’t have a good track record with forest conservation to say the least. As governor of Georgia, he killed the green space program, designed with conservation in mind, and replaced it with one that allowed continued harvesting of trees on rural lands where the state had purchased development rights. Georgia is already one of the country’s biggest timber states. Deforestation not only