Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC

Rollins said AFPI quietly spent four years building a ready-made governing machine for a second America First administration. She said the network became a $90 million operation, prepared 300 draft executive orders and 196 agency plans, and now has seven alumni in the Cabinet plus dozens in the White House.

Her route into national power was built through long personal relationships rather than a conventional Washington career. Rick Perry, whom she met at 15, hired her at 28; years later Jared Kushner repeatedly recruited her to build a White House policy apparatus modeled on her Texas work, and she said no three times before joining.

At USDA, Rollins is pursuing a major reorganization rather than a narrow efficiency drive. She said nearly $6 billion in contracts had already been canceled and staff reductions were underway; USDA’s subsequent 100-day release reported more than $5.5 billion in canceled grants and contracts. (Farmers National Association)

Rollins and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are trying to turn SNAP into a nutrition-policy lever, not merely a benefits program. Rollins said USDA spends $370 million daily across 13 nutrition programs and asked all 50 governors for waivers while arguing SNAP should stop subsidizing soda and junk food.

The administration was already designing a legal farm-labor program to accompany its immigration enforcement, though Rollins said details were not yet public. She said Trump raised it himself in a Cabinet meeting and wanted undocumented workers to leave while ensuring farms retained enough labor, especially for year-round operations such as dairies.

Rollins said the Agriculture job changed her from a free-market purist into a supporter of “fair markets” before freer trade. She argued U.S. farm products face unequal treatment abroad and said she planned trips to India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Peru and the UK to open markets for American producers.

Her small-government approach stops where she believes removing support would destroy farm capacity. Rollins said crop insurance cannot simply be gutted because thousands of farmers could fail and foreign buyers could acquire their land; her goal is to reduce such support only after stronger markets make it less necessary.

Rollins described the coming farm-bill fight as mostly a SNAP negotiation, not a farm-policy negotiation. She said roughly 85% of the bill is food stamps and 15% farmer programs, and that she was already holding bipartisan strategy discussions with Senator Amy Klobuchar while seeking SNAP reform and stronger farmer support.