billion and a workforce of more than
10,000 employees.
Prior to public service, Moffitt
spent 10 years as managing director at
Dixon Ridge Farms, her family’s organic
walnut farm and processing operation.
Additionally, she served on California’s
Central Valley Regional Water Quality
Control Board from 2012–2015 and
worked for American Farmland Trust
from 2002–2005. Moffitt is a graduate
of Brown University and the California
Agricultural Leadership Program. She
resides in Davis, California, with her
husband and daughter. R
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Katherine Tai has been less forthcoming.
During testimony on the topic during her
Senate confirmation process and when
questioned by the House Ways and
Means Committee in May, she gave no
timetable for when the administration
might formally request reauthorization.
Any effort to craft a new bill
before the 2022 elections, although
highly unlikely, would have to be led by
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron
Wyden (D-OR) and House Ways and
Means Committee Chair Richard Neal
(D-MA). Wyden voted for the 2015
TPA bill while Neal opposed it. Despite
Democrats’ loathsome disgust with
Trump administration policy, the fact
remains that “America first” trade policy
flipped the script for many congressional
Democrats who long championed get-tough
enforcement and stronger tariffs
to support American laborers.
Prior to expiration, TPA was most
recently used by Congress to ratify
the United States-Mexico-Canada
Agreement. In 2019, the Trump
administration notified Congress that
it planned to enter negotiations with
the European Union, Japan, and the UK
for potential trade agreements under
TPA. The United States and Japan signed
two bilateral agreements not formally
considered by Congress under TPA.
US agriculture in 2020 generated
$145.7 billion in global exports. Nearly
20 percent of rendered product is sold
overseas annually, and not by accident
in those markets where the United
States has trade agreements in place,
including Mexico, Chile, and Singapore.
Not surprisingly, when TPA is requested
by the Biden administration, rendering
interests will play a role advocating for
its renewal.
USDA Under Secretary for Marketing
and Regulatory Programs Nominated
Former California Department
of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)
Deputy Secretary and current CDFA
Undersecretary Jennifer (Jenny) Moffitt
has been nominated by Biden to serve
as the Under Secretary for Marketing
and Regulatory Programs at USDA.
From this position, she would lead this
critical USDA mission area covering the
Agricultural Marketing Service and the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service. Combined, the mission area
oversees a budget of more than $2.5
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