President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Agriculture Department, Brooke Rollins, will spend the coming months making herself and her priorities better known to Congress and the agriculture industry.
Rollins brings comparatively less agricultural policy experience than other names floated for the position. By tapping Rollins, Trump continued his streak of filling his Cabinet with party loyalists, nodding to her role as president and co-founder of the America First Policy Institute, a think tank designed to advance his policy agenda. She also grew up on a farm, graduated from Texas A&M University with an agriculture development degree, and has been ...