President Donald Trump’s new budget proposal targets food assistance across the United States and critical programs for public health, says Mike Lavender of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Food & Environment program Story Transcript AARON MATE: It’s the Real News. I’m Aaron Mate. President Trump is proposing a budget that would cut government spending by […]
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Mike Lavender is the Senior Washington representative for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Food & Environment program, where he advocates for a healthy, sustainable, and socially equitable food system. Previously, Mike served as a policy analyst at the Environmental Working Group, where he led congressional and executive branch campaigns relating to agriculture and biofuels policies. Before that, he spent six years in the office of former Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), where he worked on agriculture appropriations, nutrition, dairy policy, and other farm and food policy issues. Mike has a B.A. in American history and French language from Marquette University in Wisconsin.