President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that Brooke L. Rollins, the CEO of the America First Policy Institute and a senior aide during his first administration, was his choice to become Agriculture secretary.
Rollins was director of the Domestic Policy Council in Trump’s first term, director of the Office of American Innovation, and a presidential assistant for strategic initiatives. She founded the pro-Trump America First Policy Institute think tank and America First Works, an advocacy group, four years ago. She’s a native of Texas and was a policy director for GOP Gov. Rick Perry, who was Trump’s first Energy secretary.
“Brooke will spearhead the effort to protect American Farmers, who are truly the backbone of our country,” Trump said in a statement posted to his Truth Social account. He said she is committed to “the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns.”
