Trump Selects Brooke Rollins to Lead Agriculture Department

The agency has 100,000 employees and a $25 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2025.

Brooke Rollins, director of the White House Office of American Innovation, in the Secretary of War Suite at the White House on July 23, 2019. Blake Wu/NTD

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Brooke Rollins to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in his administration.

“Brooke’s commitment to support the American Farmer, defense of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns is second to none,” Trump said in a statement announcing the nomination on Nov. 23.