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Brooke Rollins
October 31, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mike Johnson Panics After Trump Official Calls Out GOP on Shutdown
The House speaker rushed to spin Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s comments.
October 20, 2025
Grace Segers
Millions of Americans Could Lose Their Food Stamps as Shutdown Lingers
The USDA could tap into contingency funds to keep SNAP afloat, but it’s unclear if the administration will prioritize nutrition assistance.
July 9, 2025
Robert McCoy
Trump Agriculture Chief Admits Deportations Have Caused a Big Problem
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the administration is still trying to come up with a solution to the problem posed by Donald Trump’s mass deportations.
July 8, 2025
Robert McCoy
Trump Agriculture Chief Pushes Outrageous Plan for Medicaid Recipients
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has a wild vision for American farms amid Trump’s mass deportations.
June 27, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Budget Bill Is So Bad, Even Fox Is Calling It Out
Fox Business highlighted that Donald Trump’s pet budget bill will cut Medicaid and SNAP.
April 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Treasury Sec. Rushes to Explain How Many Trade Deals He’s Made
It sounds like Donald Trump has yet to make a single deal.
April 7, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Ag. Sec. Has Unhinged Defense for Tariffing Uninhabited Islands
Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on islands inhabited only by penguins.
April 3, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Egg Prices Are About to Get Even Higher
The Trump administration brought prices down by importing millions of eggs. Officials can’t answer simple questions about whether those eggs will be subject to substantial tariffs.
March 10, 2025
Grace Segers
Trump’s Sticker Shocks Are About to Hit the Produce Aisle
The president’s policies regarding trade and immigration, as well as bone-deep cuts to government spending, have brought chaos to the nation’s agriculture industry.
February 26, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Finally Has a Plan to Solve Egg Costs, and It’s a Doozy
Avian flu has sent the cost of eggs surging across the country.
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