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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that helium volition nominate erstwhile White House adjutant Brooke Rollins to beryllium his agriculture secretary, the past of his picks to pb enforcement agencies and different prime from wrong his established ellipse of advisers and allies.
The information indispensable beryllium confirmed by the Senate, which volition beryllium controlled by Republicans erstwhile Trump takes bureau Jan. 20, 2025. Rollins would win Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden’s agriculture caput who oversees the sprawling bureau that controls policies, regulations and assistance programs related to farming, forestry, ranching, nutrient prime and nutrition.
Rollins, who graduated from Texas A&M University with a grade successful cultivation development, is simply a longtime Trump subordinate who served arsenic his erstwhile home argumentation chief. She is president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, a radical helping to laic the groundwork for a 2nd Trump administration.
Rollins, 52, antecedently served arsenic an adjutant to erstwhile Texas Gov. Rick Perry and ran a deliberation tank, the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Rollins’ prime completes Trump’s enactment of the heads of enforcement subdivision departments, conscionable 2 and a fractional weeks aft the erstwhile president won the White House erstwhile again. Several different picks that are traditionally Cabinet-level remain, including U.S. Trade Representative and caput of the tiny concern administration.
Trump didn’t connection galore specifics astir his agriculture policies during the campaign, but farmers could beryllium affected if helium carries retired his pledge to enforce wide tariffs. During the archetypal Trump administration, countries similar China responded to Trump’s tariffs by imposing retaliatory tariffs connected U.S. exports similar the maize and soybeans routinely sold overseas. Trump countered by offering monolithic multibillion-dollar assistance to farmers to assistance them upwind the commercialized war.
President Abraham Lincoln founded the USDA successful 1862, erstwhile astir fractional of each Americans lived connected farms. The USDA oversees aggregate enactment programs for farmers; carnal and works health; and the information of meat, poultry and eggs that anchor the nation’s nutrient supply. Its national nutrition programs supply nutrient to low-income people, large women and young children. And the bureau sets standards for schoolhouse meals.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to pb the Department of Health and Human Services, has vowed to portion ultraprocessed foods from schoolhouse lunches and to halt allowing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries from utilizing nutrient stamps to bargain soda, candy oregon different alleged junk foods. But it would beryllium the USDA, not HHS, that would beryllium liable for enacting those changes.
In addition, HHS and USDA volition enactment unneurotic to finalize the 2025-2030 variation of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. They are owed precocious adjacent year, with guidance for steadfast diets and standards for national nutrition programs. ___ Gomez Licon reported from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Associated Press writers Josh Funk and JoNel Aleccia contributed to this report.
