(23 Nov 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 11 January 2018
1. Various of President-elect Donald Trump and Brooke Rollins (right) during a prison reform roundtable discussion
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, former White House aide, nominee for agriculture secretary:
"So, in Texas, we’ve changed our laws, we shut eight prisons down. We’ve decreased our incarceration rate by 20 percent, but the most important part of all of that is that our crime rate is down 31 percent in the state of Texas since we undertook all of these reforms. This works."
3. Pan of roundtable
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4. STILL Brooke Rollins (center) speaks at an America First Policy Institute agenda summit along with Kevin McCarthy (left) and Newt Gingrich (right)
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5. STILL Brooke Rollins speaks during a Life is Winning event
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6. STILL Brooke Rollins speaks at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster
STORYLINE:
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary, the last of his picks to lead executive agencies and another choice from within his established circle of advisers and allies.
The nomination must be confirmed by the Senate, which will be controlled by Republicans when Trump takes office Jan. 20, 2025.
Rollins would succeed Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden’s agriculture secretary who oversees the sprawling agency that controls policies, regulations and aid programs related to farming, forestry, ranching, food quality and nutrition.
Rollins, who graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in agricultural development, is a longtime Trump associate who served as his former domestic policy chief.
She is president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, a group helping to lay the groundwork for a second Trump administration.
Rollins, 52, previously served as an aide to former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and ran a think tank, the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Rollins’ pick completes Trump’s selection of the heads of executive branch departments, just two and a half weeks after the former president won the White House once again.
Several other picks that are traditionally Cabinet-level remain, including U.S. Trade Representative and head of the small business administration.
Trump didn’t offer many specifics about his agriculture policies during the campaign, but farmers could be affected if he carries out his pledge to impose widespread tariffs.
During the first Trump administration, countries like China responded to Trump’s tariffs by imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports like the corn and soybeans routinely sold overseas.
Trump countered by offering massive multibillion-dollar aid to farmers to help them weather the trade war.
President Abraham Lincoln founded the USDA in 1862, when about half of all Americans lived on farms.
The USDA oversees multiple support programs for farmers; animal and plant health; and the safety of meat, poultry and eggs that anchor the nation’s food supply.
Its federal nutrition programs provide food to low-income people, pregnant women and young children. And the agency sets standards for school meals.
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