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In her congratulatory station earlier this period aft Trump won the election, Rollins posted connected X, “We emotion you, Mr. President, and we are truthful arrogant to proceed the conflict for an America built astir your America First vision.” (Photo: @BrookeLRollins/X)
President-elect Donald Trump has selected his erstwhile argumentation advisor and lawyer, Brooke Rollins, arsenic caput to pb the Department of Agriculture.
If ratified by the Senate, Rollins is bound to pb a section which has a 1,00,000 person-agency with the cultivation offices successful each region successful the US. The budget of the Department of Agriculture successful 2024 was $437.2 billion.
“As our adjacent Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke volition spearhead the effort to support American Farmers, who are genuinely the backbone of our Country. 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 said successful a statement.
Rollins is presently the CEO of America First Policy Institute which is reported to person adjacent links with Trump’s modulation squad and has been a champion of supporting Trump successful the statesmanlike campaign.
In her congratulatory station earlier this period aft Trump won the election, Rollins posted connected X, “We emotion you, Mr. President, and we are truthful arrogant to proceed the conflict for an America built astir your America First vision.”
According to the Associated Press, Rollins, 52, graduated from Texas A&M University with an undergraduate grade successful cultivation improvement earlier completing instrumentality schoolhouse astatine the University of Texas. During Trump’s archetypal term, she served arsenic the White House Domestic Policy Council director.
Thank you, Mr. President, for the accidental to service arsenic the adjacent U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. It volition beryllium the grant of my beingness to combat for America’s farmers and our Nation’s cultivation communities. This is large worldly for a small-town ag miss from Glen Rose, TX — genuinely the… https://t.co/h91Zx3eEgl pic.twitter.com/DLgxrmZhH6
— Brooke Rollins (@BrookeLRollins) November 23, 2024
Prior to that, Rollins was president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a blimpish deliberation tank, for 15 years. Her sanction was antecedently brought up arsenic a imaginable White House main of staff.
But she stood down and made mode for Susie Wiles, communicating to Trump’s modulation squad that the Agriculture caput would beryllium different relation she tin beryllium up for. According to CNN, Trump and Rollins spoke astir the relation this week.
Rollins had called Trump an “amazing boss” earlier this twelvemonth successful an interview.
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