Rollins Defends USDA
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins defended the USDA and the Trump administration against a barrage of attacks from Democrats.
Rollins was hit hard on everything from agency firings and bird flu to proposed SNAP cuts and the MAHA report … But Rollins was ready …
ROLLINS … “No one has been fired. There were 15-thousand USDA employees who took the resignation, the deferred resignation, but no one was fired.”
But some critical workers were later asked to un-resign.
And, on fighting avian influenza with a vaccine for dairy cows …
ROLLINS … “We remain wholly, wholly committed to looking down every single path, under every single hood, doing everything we can on this high-path to contain it. It obviously has jumped to the dairy industry.”
Rollins also vowed a stepped-up fight against Agro-terror after two Chinese nationals were charged with trying to smuggle a toxic fungus into the Midwest to infect farmland.
On GOP plans to shift some SNAP costs to the states …
ROLLINS … “I’m in support of the most fiscally responsible effort to ensure that we’re delivering the right amount of aid to the people who need it.”
And not listening to farmers for the next Make America Healthy Again report …
ROLLINS … “I have worked and have been unequivocal on the record about how important these crop protection programs are - pesticides specifically, glyphosate, and others more specifically - and the president has, as well. So, we will continue that. There’s no doubt that we could do better on the next report.”
Rollins also defended USDA’s efforts to bring down egg prices, get Billions in aid to producers, and opening new foreign markets.
