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Brooke Rollins: “Without Donald Trump coming down that escalator...we owe…”

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Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC

Published May 4, 2025 | Video Starts at 30:00

Right. That. That everyone's got their hand in the pot and they buckle. And that's how they lose their place … Without Donald Trump coming down that escalator...we owe, not industry, not lobbyists, one thing. … we're called to do what's right. You and I don't know that that's ever happened, at least in my lifetime, in governance, in federal governance. (30:00–30:40)

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Asserts that Donald Trump's administration does not owe anything to industry or lobbyists.

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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.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC | Uploaded May 4, 2025 | 46:06-46:14
“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.”
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“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
“We launched the America First Policy Institute quietly in early February of 21, publicly in April.”
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“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.”
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“The fact that we have an agency with 100 plus thousand employees, the largest budget item is food stamps, that the SNAP program.”
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“We've already canceled almost $6 billion, $100,000, $200,000 at a time.”
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“There is no doubt that USDA absolutely needs a realignment, a reconstruction and a significant reorganization.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Every great world power, Netherlands, has buckled under the weight of a government that hands out the largesse.”
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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].”
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“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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