U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) records of external emails from schedulers working for Secretary Sonny Perdue. The records are from the spring of 2017 through the summer of 2018, and contain communications that appear to indicate inappropriate use of personal email by Perdue.

No matter how much the administration stonewalls, new evidence in the Ukraine investigation continues to emerge. 

Records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) between the USDA and Missouri State officials regarding the relocation of research components to Kansas City.

Records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture of Congressional meeting requests. These records list proposed meetings with USDA and Representatives Emmer, Nolan, and others concerning twin metals. These meeting requests are from 2017 and early 2018.

U.S Department of Agriculture emails with Congressman Tom Emmer regarding Twin Metals. These documents detail three calls between Minnesota Congressional members and USDA regarding Twin Metals, which occurred in March 2018 as well as February and March 2019.


U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) email communications between senior officials and outside groups associated with lobbying for more lenient animal rights enforcement.

The Department of Agriculture stated that it had no records of communications with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. American Oversight asked for this correspondence following reports of their potential influence on decisions surrounding Twin Metals, which is run by their landlord in Washington, DC.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) records of communications with campaign entities and individuals associated with political campaigns. American Oversight sought these documents to discern whether and to what extent campaign organizations were communicating and coordinating with agency officials.

U.S. Department of Agriculture records in response to our request seeking the communications of Secretary Sonny Perdue and his staff with the office of Georgia Sen. David Perdue, Secretary Perdue’s cousin.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) stated that it had no records responsive to American Oversight's request for communications between USDA and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) officials regarding the relocation of USDA research components to Kansas City.