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President-elect Trump announced that helium volition nominate Brooke Rollins to beryllium the Secretary of Agriculture connected Saturday, gathering upon a hefty list of Cabinet picks.
“Brooke’s committedness to enactment the American Farmer, defence of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns is 2nd to none,” Trump wrote successful a release, lauding her family’s inheritance successful farming and aboriginal engagement with Future Farmers of America successful summation to 4H.
Rollins joined the erstwhile president’s Economic Advisory Council successful 2016 and presently serves arsenic the president and CEO of America First Policy Institute, a think-tank for the erstwhile president manned by erstwhile staffers.
In 2021, she launched a $10 million run against Biden’s economical docket and spoke retired in favor of Trump’s 2nd White House bid erstwhile helium fell nether scrutiny successful the media arsenic GOP members criticized the party’s ticket.
“For each 1 erstwhile Trump authoritative oregon staffer that present says antagonistic things, you person hundreds that worked for him, that worked successful the White House and successful the medication that would emotion the accidental to spell backmost and enactment for him again, and would bash truthful successful a heartbeat,” Rollins stated.
Her enactment comes conscionable a time aft Trump announced Scott Turner, different America First Policy Institute person would articulation his medication arsenic the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Trump's prime of Rollins came arsenic somewhat of a astonishment — it was expected that the president-elect would prime erstwhile Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) to service arsenic caput of Agriculture.
Loeffler volition inactive service arsenic co-chair of Trump’s 2nd inaugural committee on with existent property mogul Steve Witkoff.
