The Trump Train keeps chugging on, and on Thursday, the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary for Health and Services while the Judiciary Committee sent FBI Director-nominee Kash Patel to the full Senate by a party-line vote of 12-10.
And now we have another confirmation, as Brooke Rollins has just been confirmed as Secretary of Agriculture by a vote of 72-28.
U.S. Senate CONFIRMS Brooke Rollins to be Secretary of Agriculture, 72-28. pic.twitter.com/JNi8WzlorP
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 13, 2025
As the Heartland Institute wrote here at RedState in a December 2024 editorial, Rollins is a climate realist, not a fear-monger:
Rollins has both a law degree and a degree in agricultural development and served as the director of the Domestic Policy Council during Trump’s first term, making her well qualified to run the DOA. Rollins knows both…