Biden: Tom Vilsack ‘Will Ensure that the USDA Promotes True Racial Equality and Inclusion’

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BIDEN: “Farmers and small businesses in small towns, rural communities, white, black, Latino are reeling from the pandemic and economic downturn. Tom knows the full range of resources available to this department to get immediate relief to those most in need and address the crises — not one, the crises facing rural America. He knows how to build back better for all Americans. He helped develop my rural plan for America in the campaign and he now has the dubious distinction of having to carry it out. It's a good plan. That includes making American agriculture the first in the world to achieve net-zero emissions and create new sources of income for farmers in the process, by paying farmers to put their land in conservation, plant cover crops that use the soil to capture carbon, and will ensure that the USDA promotes true racial equality and inclusion. He recognizes the history of discrimination and will root it out wherever it exists. I've known Tom for a long time and I'm confident he'll get it done."