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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue hosts the inaugural meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, where he is joined by Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, and other government officials, to set the stage, for work the Task Force must do to identify legislative, regulatory, and interagency policy changes and actions that promote agriculture and economic development, and quality of life in rural America, on June 15, 2017, in Washington, D.C. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.