The elected president of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced this Saturday that his former teacher Brooke Rollins will be your nominee for Secretary of Agriculturein an announcement that puts an end to his initial cabinet proposal, which will be submitted for consideration by the country’s Senate, where the Republican Party has the majority.
Rollins is the director of the conservative think tank America First, created in 2021 to promote Trump’s public agenda after the end of his first term and has since become the link that unites much of the nominees for his new administration.
Rollins, if admitted, would succeed Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden’s agriculture secretary, leading oversight of a department that oversees policies, regulations and aid programs related to agriculture, forestry, livestock, quality of food and nutrition.
In Trump’s first term, Rollins served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, a domestic policy forum for members of Trump’s first Cabinet. Before that, she was president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, another conservative think tank, for 15 years.
