The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Donald Trump’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) President Brooke Rollins on Thursday afternoon.
The senator voted between 72 and 28 votes in favor of confirming USDA candidates. Rollins will become Trump’s 16th cabinet candidate to secure confirmation, far surpassing the Biden administration’s confirmation schedule. (Related: PAM Bondi vows to indict FBI agents and government officials who leak information about ice attacks)
The Biden administration had not confirmed 16 cabinet candidates until March 10th. We set the Senate GOP confirmation pace almost a month before our predecessor’s schedule.
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Rollins has gained support from Republicans and Democrats. This included Republican Arkansas Sen. John Boosman, who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, on Thursday, Sen. John Boosman, who is Sen. John Boosman, urged his colleagues to confirm USDA candidates. .
“I know Brook Rollins shares my commitment to strengthening policies that help farms and rural communities thrive,” Boosman said. “Given her executive leadership, she is fully prepared to run when she walks the USDA door as a secretary and provides the certainty and predictability that producers need. Masu.”
Rollins unanimously cleared the Senate Agricultural Panel on February 4th while voting 23-0.
Senate Democrats specifically agreed to promote Collins’ confirmation votes and vehemently opposed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy secured confirmation with a 52-48 vote before Rollins on Thursday. McConnell was the only Senate Republican against Kennedy’s confirmation.
“The American farming demands and the interests farmers have taken are higher than ever,” Rollins said. I said At her confirmation hearing at the Senate Agriculture Committee on January 22nd. “When farmers thrive, the prosperity of the American countryside, and I have committed to you today. The community will thrive.”
“We need to work with the USDA’s great community of men and women and stakeholders to immediately and comprehensively address the outbreak of animal disorders, including H5N1 and New World Screworm, and eradicate everything possible. There is,” added Rollins. While discussing her priorities as a USDA secretary.
Rollins served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council in the first Trump administration and was president and chief executive of the American First Policy Institute, which was placed in Trump before he led the USDA.
The Senate is planning to consider the nomination of Canter Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick.
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