Is This Any Way to Run a Government?

October 25, 1994

Season 1994: Episode 2

As the Clinton administration claims significant progress in its commitment to streamline the federal government, Frontline investigates the one agency that is arguably the most resistant to reform–the Department of Agriculture. Focusing on the excesses, abuse, and mismanagement in the USDA’s massive crop subsidy programs, Frontline examines how Congressional power has stymied a generation of agriculture secretaries, Republicans and Democrats alike, who have tired to reform the agency’s bloated and outdated bureaucracy.

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