{"id":10463,"date":"2025-02-12T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=10463"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:08","slug":"nominate-brooke-rollins-to-be-secretary-of-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=10463","title":{"rendered":"Nominate: Brooke Rollins to be\u00a0secretary of agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooke Leslie Rollins<\/b>\u00a0(born April 10, 1972) is an American attorney and policy advisor who is the nominee for\u00a0United States secretary of agriculture<\/a>\u00a0in President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>‘s\u00a0second administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rollins previously served as deputy\u00a0general counsel<\/a>, ethics advisor, and policy director to\u00a0Texas governor<\/a>\u00a0Rick Perry<\/a>. She is an advocate of\u00a0criminal justice reform<\/a>. Rollins was the president and CEO of the\u00a0Texas Public Policy Foundation<\/a>, an\u00a0Austin<\/a>-based conservative\u00a0think tank<\/a>, from 2003 through 2018. During her tenure at\u00a0TPPF<\/a>, the think tank grew from having a staff of three to a staff of 100.<\/p>\n

Rollins oversaw the White House\u00a0Office of American Innovation<\/a>\u00a0under President Donald Trump from 2018 until 2020. She also served as the acting director of the\u00a0United States Domestic Policy Council<\/a>\u00a0under President Trump. Since the end of the Trump administration, Rollins served as the president and CEO of the\u00a0America First Policy Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On November 23, 2024,\u00a0President-elect<\/a>\u00a0Trump announced his intent to nominate Rollins to be\u00a0secretary of agriculture<\/a>. If confirmed, she will be the second woman to hold the position, after\u00a0Ann Veneman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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First Trump administration<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Office of American Innovation<\/h4>\n

In February 2018, Rollins replaced\u00a0Reed Cordish<\/a>\u00a0as Trump’s assistant to the president for intergovernmental and technology initiatives and as a member of the\u00a0Office of American Innovation<\/a>.[<\/span>9]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/div>\n

Rollins was influential in encouraging the passage of the\u00a0First Step Act<\/a>, legislation that reforms the nation’s prison system and seeks to reduce recidivism. The First Step Act was signed into law by President Trump in December 2018.[<\/span>10]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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In May 2020, President Trump named Rollins acting director of the\u00a0United States Domestic Policy Council<\/a>.[<\/span>11]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>12]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>13]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In her first public interview as acting director of the Domestic Policy Council, Rollins said she was focused on bringing “together all sides of the table to figure out how we can move forward together.”[<\/span>14]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0She said the U.S. “is a nation in mourning for the senseless death of\u00a0George Floyd<\/a>\u00a0and the senseless loss of livelihood all over this country.” Rollins struck an optimistic tone on the country’s future, saying “this is America and we have been through difficult times before. We are a nation of doers and believers and dreamers, and we are a nation where if anybody tells us to step back, we step three feet forward.”[<\/span>14]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Amid nationwide protests and racial unrest, Rollins said “we need everyone to rise above the division and the divide and come together.” She said the White House was “working through a list of solutions and possibilities, bipartisan. How do we come together? How do we use this as a unifying force for this country?”[<\/span>15]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

At an event announcing the signing of the new order, President Trump said his goal was to maintain law and order as well as justice and safety. He said “Reducing crime and raising standards are not opposite goals. They are not mutually exclusive. They work together.” According to\u00a0Politico<\/a><\/i>, the order was crafted “in consultation with police officers, mayors, conservative African Americans, faith-based leaders and the families of victims.”[<\/span>16]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooke Leslie Rollins\u00a0(born April 10, 1972) is an American attorney and policy advisor who is the nominee for\u00a0United States secretary of agriculture\u00a0in President\u00a0Donald Trump‘s\u00a0second administration. Rollins previously served as deputy\u00a0general counsel, ethics advisor, and policy director to\u00a0Texas governor\u00a0Rick Perry. She is an advocate of\u00a0criminal justice reform. Rollins was the president and CEO of the\u00a0Texas Public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10465,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions\/10465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}