If confirmed, Rollins will also oversee the country’s largest anti-hunger program, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It provides food aid benefits to more than 40 million low-income Americans and Republicans are eyeing ways to rein in future spending on the program as part of a major 2025 reconciliation package, as POLITICO has reported.
She will also have massive influence to shape agriculture policy and farm subsidies that serve as the foundation of the U.S. food system, which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is eager to overhaul.
In a statement announcing the decision, Trump seemed to signal that a major upheaval at USDA wasn’t in store. “As our next Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke will spearhead the effort to protect American Farmers, who are truly the backbone of our Country,” Trump said in a statement announcing the decision Saturday
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