USDA is last cabinet department waiting for Trump to name its leader
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Backers say President-elect Donald Trump is conducting a thorough search for the next agriculture secretary although the search, the longest since 1933, is creating anxiety in farm country and could mean a late start for the Trump ag agenda. Agriculture is the last department without a Trump nominee now that the president-elect announced his choice for secretary of veterans affairs.