President Trump will establish a task force on Tuesday to examine regulations and laws that hold back American farmers, the White House said Monday evening.
Trump is set to sign an executive order Tuesday that will sunset the White House Rural Council and establish the task force in its stead, said Ray Starling, special assistant to the president for agriculture.
The task force will conduct an 180-day review of whether current U.S. policy “unnecessarily hinders economic growth in the agriculture sector,” Starling said.
“It is the number one driver in most of these rural communities,” Starling said of the agricultural sector.
Trump will also hold a farmer’s roundtable Tuesday with newly confirmed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and 14 farmers and agricultural experts, the White House announced on Monday.
Starling said the White House Rural Council, which Trump will soon shutter, had produced few recorded accomplishments during its existence, noting officials had found little documentation of actual meetings.
