Polirico does piece on how the Agriculture pick of Brooke Rollins, by Trump, maybe a move to put someone that would keep RFK. Jr. from pissing off Farmers and those with them….
Rollis has NO experience in Agriculture….
But she starts out as a Trump loyalist if confirmed…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent weeks lobbying Donald Trump to nominate an Agriculture secretary who would be his ally in a war with the sugar, soybean, corn and other farm commodity interests he argues are poisoning Americans.
Working largely from his home in California, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services even meticulously vetted and put forward his own list of candidates to run the massive agency responsible for the country’s farm and food policy, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
But Trump went a different direction. Instead, the president-elect made a wild-card pick — a former White House aide with little formal experience in agriculture policy and no record on the public health concerns driving Kennedy’s agenda.
Trump’s choice of Brooke Rollins, who co-founded the Trump-aligned think tank America First Policy Institute, to lead the Agriculture Department represents something of a victory for the entrenched agriculture interests that view Kennedy as a foe. And it shows the potential limits of Kennedy’s power to pursue his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda in a Trump administration attuned to the concerns of industry.
“Brooke Rollins is a savvy operator, and she’s not going to serve as anyone’s lackey,” said one farm state GOP lawmaker. They and more than a dozen other individuals interviewed for this story were granted anonymity to candidly discuss transition decision-making. “RFK may have broad discretion at HHS, but I have every expectation that Secretary Rollins will be the one actually calling the shots at USDA. That’s going to give America’s farmers and ranchers a certain amount of comfort.”….
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You ARE going to see variation’s of this in a LOT of Trump admin choices as a way to get US Senate support of choices and deal’s with media beat downs on those who do not have to be confirmed….
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