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Brooke Rollins: “We launched the America First Policy Institute quietly in…”

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Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC

Published May 4, 2025 | Video Starts at 15:38

And so what? I was in the time frame. Yes, exactly, because that's it. It's the time frame. So We launched the America First Policy Institute quietly in early February of 21, publicly in April. almost exactly four years ago today. In April of 21, I had nine former Trump cabinet members from Trump, 1:50 former White House senior staff. Many were volunteers at the beginning. (15:38–15:47)

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“We spend $370 million a day on nutrition programs.”
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“Under Joe Biden, we lost $50 billion in trade.”
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“We went from a $0 trade deficit with Trump won to a $50 billion trade deficit with Biden.”
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“80% of the USDA budget is food stamps.”
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“The first year of Trump [administration], for every one new regulation, 22 went.”
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“The SNAP program, which is what the Democrats are always trying to put more money into, that grew 40% under the Joe Biden term.”
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“The farmer part of the farm bill is 15% 1 5. The food stamp part of the farm bill is 85%.”
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“Food security is national security.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 00:11-00:15
“These farmers don't want all these checks.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 00:17-00:21
“The USDA is the people's department.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 04:21-04:24
“Abraham Lincoln in the 1860s believed sincerely that the majority of Americans then were rural, they were agriculture related, and that they…”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 05:03-05:16
“We run the food stamp program, the SNAP program, the Supplemental Nutrition Program.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 05:33-05:38
“Forest Service is under Forestry is under USDA.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 05:39-05:44
“In President Trump's greatest vision and in his bold leadership, one of my top priorities is how we realign the USDA around its original…”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 06:05-06:19
“I spent the year with Larry Kudlow, who ran the National Economic Council, Scott Robert o', Brien, who ran National Security Council.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 13:55-14:02
“I had nine former Trump cabinet members from Trump, 1:50 former White House senior staff.”
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“It was a $90 million operation in just a couple of years.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 16:05-16:10
“Part of that was having 300 executive orders drafted, having 196 agency plans ready.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 16:20-16:26
“The fact that we have an agency with 100 plus thousand employees, the largest budget item is food stamps, that the SNAP program.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 18:58-19:07
“We've already canceled almost $6 billion, $100,000, $200,000 at a time.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 19:12-19:18
“There is no doubt that USDA absolutely needs a realignment, a reconstruction and a significant reorganization.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 19:26-19:36
“Every year we lose more family farms. Every year things get outsourced to other countries, including China and Brazil.”
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“It's also getting harder and harder for new Americans, men or women, to get into the business of farming.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 20:21-20:28
“We lose more farms, we buy more food from overseas.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 21:03-21:07
“The President's realigning the entire world economy right now, putting America first.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 21:22-21:27
“Within the first hour of being sworn in on February 13, 50 letters went out to all 50 governors in the country.”
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“Taxpayer dollars be spent on sugary drinks and junk food that's making our kids sick. Absolutely not.”
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“This is the problem when the government gets too big.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 29:33-29:37
“Every great world power, Netherlands, has buckled under the weight of a government that hands out the largesse.”
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“Without Donald Trump coming down that escalator...we owe, not industry, not lobbyists, one thing.”
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“We have already lost tens of thousands of family farms in the last decade.”
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“China's been buying up a lot of our farmland in America.”
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“A lot of our major meat packers, et cetera, are now owned by foreign ownership.”
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“Those farmers are paying $2 an hour over there [in Mexico].”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 39:05-39:08
“You come across on our side and with everything that we're required to do and Pay, and it's 20 to $23 an hour.”
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“The visa programs don't work for [dairy farmers]. It's not a seasonal deal.”
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“Our average was like 10 to 1 in the first Trump administration.”
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“I just believe so strongly in our ranchers and our farmers and what they produce and what it means to the average American family.”
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“I don't think we ever want to get in the way of stifling innovation, especially as it relates to something that could eventually be such a…”
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