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Brooke Rollins: “We inherited the trade deficit after leaving a trade…”

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 03:37

… with the Maha movement, to fight over weaponization of government, to begin to deconstruct all of the unbelievably bad policy decisions that were made under the last administration that basically We inherited the trade deficit after leaving a trade surplus. We inherited a 40% increase in inputs for our farmers. Eight or nine out of every ten farmers in America are not profitable. I mean, these are massive issues. (03:37–03:42)

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Asserts that the current administration inherited a trade deficit from the previous administration, which had a trade surplus.

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