All posts tagged "Brooke Rollins"

A Trump Cabinet secretary's inability to say from which country the U.S. will import beef is spurring online outrage.

On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins was asked which countries have been in talks with the U.S. about stepping up beef imports. The question came amid Trump's plan to allow up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef to enter the U.S. without higher tariffs, which has been met with backlash within the GOP.

Rollins told reporters, "I am not privy to talk about" where the U.S. will be getting its beef, which stirred disbelief and anger about the secrecy....

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was mocked on Tuesday after suggesting to a crowd that it was time to applaud, reviving a decade-old meme.

Rollins was speaking at Minnesota Farmfest, where she touted the Trump administration's support for America's farmers.

"With my boss, President Trump, what he was trying to figure out was if we've got to deliver on our promises," Rollins said. "We promised a smaller government. We promised to deregulate. We promised tax cuts. We promised to get rid of all the crazy woke."...

A flesh-eating parasite has the Trump administration backpedaling fast ahead of the midterm elections, according to a new report.

New World screwworm, a parasite that threatens U.S. livestock, forced the Agriculture department to partially lifting its ban on cattle imports from Mexico, according to a Friday night report from Politico.

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to lower the prices of beef ahead of the midterms. ...

A red state official ripped the Trump administration for how it mishandled a dangerous parasite now spreading fear.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said on CNN that he started talking to the White House and Agriculture Sec. Brooke Rollins "for the first time" recently about New World Screwworm, despite giving them information about how to mitigate it much sooner.

Miller was talking about killing the screwworm using fly bait and then sterile flies, and said that the Agriculture Department ignored his calls to deploy it sooner....

An uncomfortable description of a threatening parasite by a Trump administration official is drawing startled reactions.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins spoke at an oversight hearing on Thursday about the spread of the New World Screwworm that threatens cattle ranches.

"It's a vexing challenge that we thought we had beaten in the 1970s," Rollins said. "You need about 400 million sterile flies per week to mate with the bad flies...the larva [of the screwworm] is what actually eats the flesh."...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins blamed the Make America Healthy Again movement — at least in part — for soaring beef prices heading into Memorial Day weekend, telling Fox Business that Americans are eating more beef thanks to the MAHA-driven health craze.

"But this is also combined with Make America Healthy Again — people are eating more beef than ever before," Rollins said Wednesday on Fox Business. "This is an amazing testament to our incredible ranchers who produce the best beef in America."

Ground beef is now running roughly $6.70 to $6.90 a pound — about a dollar above historical norms — as cattle herds sit at a three-generation low....