Brooke Rollins
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We do believe that prices are going to start coming down this summer.
The goal is to preserve a way of life of rural America, to get back to healthier, more locally produced food by companies and people that have America's best interest at heart.
Secretary, you've got some new news to break with us this morning.
You know, federal data revealing 4 million fewer Americans are receiving SNAP benefits.
in the first year of this president's second term.
These numbers are coming from your department, enrollment falling 4.2 million people.
And this is after the passage, of course, of the big beautiful bill last July.
What can you tell us?
In a statement, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says moving the agency west to Utah will put its chief and operations leaders closer to the land they manage.
The choice of Utah has raised eyebrows among conservationists because its leaders have long pushed for selling federal land.
There also isn't a lot of forest there compared to, say, West Coast states where the administration is closing regional offices and scientific research stations.
It's not clear if this will face legal challenges.
During the first Trump administration, the White House tried to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Grand Junction, Colorado, which was mostly reversed under President Biden.
We've run over a thousand simulations.
It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the funding freeze in a letter posted on X claiming the Trump administration has uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota.
It's not clear what she meant by that, but the letter noted the years-long benefits fraud scandal there that's already seen more than 60 people convicted.
USDA is demanding justification before it restarts payments, $129 million in all.