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CHICAGO, July 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of \u2060Representatives’ \u2060Democratic Women’s Caucus on Monday \u2060urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate four women to the \u200bUnited Soybean Board industry group after they were denied reappointment to leadership roles, a move by the \u200cagency first reported by Reuters in \u200cApril.<\/p>\n

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The 96-member caucus sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and to USDA Agriculture \u2060Marketing Specialist \u2060Sarah Aswegan imploring the agency to reverse its decision, adding that the \u200bmove “takes the USB and American farmers in the wrong direction.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Trump administration rejected all four women and one man\u00a0chosen by their peers to represent them at the USB earlier this year in a rare intervention \u200bby the USDA, which has historically approved states’ choices with few exceptions. The USDA has \u2060not provided \u2060any explanation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Your decision is \u2060not only disrespectful \u200bto the qualified women who were nominated, it sends a message to women farmers that \u200btheir voices do not matter,” \u2060the caucus said in the letter seen by Reuters and dated July 13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We strongly urge USDA to reverse its decision and allow these nominees to serve their rightful terms.”<\/p>\n

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The soybean board purge left the organization, which oversees more than $121 million in funds collected from farmers to expand markets for \u2060U.S. soybeans, with just five women among its 77-member board, the lowest in at \u2060least a decade. Women make up more than a third of U.S. farmers but have historically held a smaller share of leadership roles in commodity groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The USDA’s intervention came as the Trump administration has in the past year revoked equal pay initiatives enacted by the Biden administration and rolled back programs across the federal government that aimed to correct past inequities impacting women and minority groups. The White House argues that such programs are illegal under laws against race and gender discrimination, and work against \u2060merit-based advancement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“This is the type of targeted discrimination I have come to expect from this administration. These women were nominated by their peers and deserve to be reinstated to do the work that they are capable and qualified to do,” said Democratic Representative \u200bAngie Craig of Minnesota, ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by \u200bKarl Plume in Chicago; Editing by Aurora Ellis)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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