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Brooke Rollins: “At USDA, we've let 20,000 employees go. We went from 100,000…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: China, Food Security & the Future of American Farming

Published | Video Starts at 15:02

And the way our founders envisioned it is the small federal government. We're trying to get back to that. By the way, I think the newest numbers are our government. I mean, At USDA, we've let 20,000 employees go. We went from 100,000 employees to 80,000 in just a matter of months. And that's happening across the entire federal government that were back to the size of the government from 30 or 40 years ago, which is kind of amazing and I think sort of deserves a round of applause. (15:02–15:10)

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Asserts a reduction of 20,000 employees at the USDA, reducing its workforce from 100,000 to 80,000.

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