President-elect Donald J. Trump has nominated Brooke Rollins as Secretary for Agriculture in his Administration.  Currently, she is the Executive Director for the America First Policy Institute.  Previously, she was Director of the Domestic Policy Council during the first Trump Administration.

Rollins is a native of Glen Rose, TX. and participated in FFA in high school.  She earned a baccalaureate degree in Agricultural Development from Texas A&M and her law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.

Her appointment has received the support of the American Farm Bureau Federation noting that she would “fight for America’s farmers in our nation’s agricultural communities”.

In her current position, Ms. Rollins has advocated for a review of SNAP eligibility requirements.  It is anticipated that she will aggressively advocate for change within USDA in accordance with pre-election commitments by the President-elect.

It is evident that many of the grant and giveaway programs favoring minorities and the “underserved” as favored by Secretary Tom Vilsack will be reversed or abandoned during her tenure.