U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart News late last week that President Donald Trump and his administration are keenly focused on lowering the price of eggs in the United States and prepared to take any and all actions needed to do so.
Rollins, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday as Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, spoke to Breitbart News on Friday afternoon on her first full day as Secretary. Rollins previously served in Trump’s White House in his first term, and then later launched the America First Policy Institute—an outside group advocating for America First policies.
After Trump’s historic victory in November’s election, she was appointed to lead USDA—which is a critically important government department involved heavily in policies focused on food prices. Her interview with Breitbart News on Friday afternoon was her first print interview with a non-trade publication.
Rollins said that one of the very critical parts of Trump’s mandate is to lower food prices and combat inflation, and she intends to be part of leading the charge to make that happen.
“First of all, it’s very clear that the president campaigned on significant and transformational change,” Rollins told Breitbart News. “Having been next to him for three years in the last White House, having launched the America First Policy Institute to continue the America First policies beyond President Trump—when I launched it I didn’t know he was going to run again so that wasn’t even really part of the plan, but we knew when the next conservative administration came in we wanted to be ready, and I believe just so sincerely that our team in the last Trump administration was ready and then when that opportunity came again that we would prepare for that day.” […]
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