Tag Archives: Brooke Rollins

Axios reports: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the suspension of live cattle, horse and bison imports via the southern border “due to the continued and rapid northward spread” of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico, effective immediately. This parasitic worm species’ infestation “occurs when NWS fly larvae infest the tissue or flesh of warm-blooded animals; on rare occasions this includes …

NPR reports: The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status. The sweeping and unprecedented request comes as the Trump administration ramps up the collection and consolidation of Americans’ sensitive data, and as that data has been used to make …

Politico reports: At least 15,000 Agriculture Department employees have taken the Trump administration’s offers to resign, according to a readout of a USDA briefing with congressional staff that was shared with POLITICO. The departures represent a drastic contraction of a department that handles a diverse portfolio including flagship federal nutrition programs, food safety, farm loans and rural broadband initiatives. While …

The Hill reports: USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins said a price drop for eggs has already hit some parts of the country, but for others, it is “coming” soon. Rollins joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where she highlighted a major economic indicator: the price of eggs. Egg prices rose to a record high in March at $6.23 per …

Politico reports: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ $1 billion plan for fighting bird flu will rely on money cut from programs meant to help schools and food banks support local farmers, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Rollins in February rolled out a five-step strategy to fight bird flu that includes importing eggs and researching and developing a poultry …

CNN HOST JAKE TAPPER: “President Trump laid out with a giant graphic of all the countries where tariffs were going to be, what he called reciprocal tariffs, were going be imposed. And you’re imposing a 10% tariff on the herd in McDonald Islands. The McDonald Islands have zero human inhabitants. They have zero exports, they have zero imports. They do …

The Washington Post reports: The Trump administration has removed environmental protections covering more than half of the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the president’s aim to significantly bolster the U.S. logging industry. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said “heavy-handed federal policies” have prevented the United States from making use of its “abundance of timber resources that …

Courthouse News reports: A coalition of farmers sued the Trump administration Thursday to lift an indefinite freeze of billions of dollars in funding for programs created under the Inflation Reduction Act. In the suit, brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the farmers challenge President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order “Unleashing American Energy,” which placed …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary claimed Tuesday Americans are feeling another surge in egg prices because we are in “Easter season.” “This is always the highest price for eggs,” she said. “We expect [costs] to perhaps inch back up.” Trump’s tariffs are reportedly adding to the spike in prices, but the No. 1 factor driving egg prices …

Breitbart reports: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump’s administration will be focusing its egg price reduction efforts on repopulation of chickens and on biosecurity measures, and that the administration is now ruling out any vaccines for animals against avian bird flu. Rollins broke down key planks of the administration’s billion-dollar …

LARRY KUDLOW: “You know, Brooke, the other part of this, and I appreciate what you’re trying to do on the egg story. It’s a hard story. You inherited that story.” USDA SEC. BROOKE ROLLINS: “That’s right.” KUDLOW: “Some very, very smart people are telling me that the jobs number that’s coming at the February jobs number that’s coming out Friday …

Politico reports: Thousands of fired workers at the Department of Agriculture must get their jobs back for at least the next month and a half, the chair of a federal civil service board ruled Wednesday. The ruling said the recent dismissals of more than 5,600 probationary employees may have violated federal laws and procedures for carrying out layoffs. The decision …

“I have chickens in my backyard and yesterday I went out – they just started laying – and yesterday I got five eggs. Is part of the solution more small farms, because when avian flu hits, you have these giant industrial farms? I don’t think the eggs are as good anyway.  Isn’t part of it just investing in smaller farms, …

The New York Times reports: As the price of eggs reaches record highs, the federal government is looking into importing more eggs from other countries and increasing funding for efforts to combat the spread of avian flu, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday. The measures, announced by the department’s secretary, Brooke L. Rollins, in multiple news appearances, do not appear …

NewsNation reports: Egg prices are at an all-time high and expected to get even worse for consumers, according to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture projection. The USDA’s latest outlook predicts egg prices will increase 41% in 2025 as a widespread bird flu outbreak continues to devastate egg-laying chicken flocks. Tuesday’s updated forecast is more than double the 20% jump …

NBC News reports: The United States Department of Agriculture on Tuesday said that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired agency employees who are working on the federal government’s response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. In a statement, the agency said it is trying to quickly reverse the firings. The error is the latest in the Trump administration’s efforts to …

Politico reports: Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO. The directive from USDA’s office of communications, whose authenticity was validated by three people, could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives, USDA …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: The America First Policy Institute, a MAGA movement think tank founded by former Trump aides, has raised millions in tax-exempt funds to promote policies that would undermine public education, restrict access to abortion, limit voter registration and voting, roll back environmental protections, gut government’s ability to regulate corporate behavior, pursue campaigns against transgender …

Politico reports: Trump has picked Brooke Rollins as his Agriculture secretary, after weeks of intense internal fighting over the role. Rollins served as director of the Office of American Innovation and acting director of the Domestic Policy Council during the first Trump administration. Since her time in the White House, Rollins has co-founded and helmed the America First Policy Institute …