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Picks Brooke Rollins for Agriculture</h1> <p class="entry-meta"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2024-11-23T12:11:31-05:00">November 23, 2024 at 12:11 pm EST</time> By <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a href="https://politicalwire.com/author/tdg/" class="entry-author-link" rel="author" itemprop="url" data-wpel-link="internal"><span class="entry-author-name" itemprop="name">Taegan Goddard</span></a></span> <span class="entry-comments-link"><a href="https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/23/trump-picks-brooke-rollins-for-agriculture/#respond" data-wpel-link="internal"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="1734060 https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/23/trump-picks-brooke-rollins-for-agriculture/">Leave a Comment</span></a></span> </p></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select Brooke Rollins, a former Trump administration policy adviser, to lead the Agriculture Department, the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-expected-to-choose-brooke-rollins-to-lead-agriculture-department-50b6a3fd" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a> reports.</p> <p>“Rollins is the president of the America First Policy Institute, a group led by former Trump administration officials that spent months planning for a potential second term. 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