A week before Trump's order protecting meat plants, industry sent draft language to feds

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A week before Trump's order protecting meat plants, the industry sent draft language of an executive order to feds

, meatpacking executives pressured federal regulators to help keep their plants open, according to a trove of emails obtained by USA TODAY.

At the same time, the companies and their trade organizations tried to thwart local health departments’ orders to close plants by asking the USDA to intervene. The emails were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Public Citizen and American Oversight and shared with USA TODAY and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. ProPublica, which also requested the emails from the USDA,Adam Pulver, a Public Citizen attorney, said the “degree of collaboration” between Trump administration officials and industry in the emails is “astounding.

Julie Ann Potts, the president and CEO of the North American Meat Institute, said her group and many other trade organizations “routinely suggest legislative language.”

 

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Food production was always essential and non-negotiable. Defense Production Act was appropriate here.

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Every industry is drafting Trump's executive orders, including the nursing home industry.

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