Additional Nominees Named for USDA

President Donald Trump is out with a large number of nominees. That list includes Tyler Clarkson to be USDA’s general counsel; Scott Hutchins to serve as the undersecretary for research, education and economics and Brian Quintenz to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Clarkson was the Agriculture Department’s deputy general counsel during the first Trump administration. Hutchins was the deputy undersecretary for research, education and economics during the first go-round and Quintenz was a CFTC commissioner from 2017 to 2021 and is now part of a crypto venture fund.