Brooke L. Rollins is poised to tackle foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land if confirmed as Agriculture secretary, but she will face some limitations on the scope of her power to do so.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 23 that he will nominate Rollins to lead the Agriculture Department. Rollins was a senior aide for Trump during his first administration and is the president and CEO of America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank founded in 2021.
The AFPI has called on Congress to restrict China’s ability to own U.S. agriculture land. Rollins said in an AFPI video in October that the think tank’s agenda mirrors what “would have been the second-term agenda, which we had built out in the last year of the last White House.”
