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Brooke Rollins

33rd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture — Department of Agriculture

Signature issue: Agriculture policy — the farm economy and the food programs

Scoreboard tally

Wins, pending items, and setbacks on this profile are tallied from published scoreboard entries — never set by hand. The tally begins with the first reviewed weekly entry that scores this official.

Role status — October 2026: Rollins is the incumbent Secretary of Agriculture, the 33rd to hold the office, confirmed 72–28 and in the role since February 13, 2025 (usda.gov biography). She remains in place in October 2026. Status dot is green: a comfortable confirmation margin, continuous tenure, and no attributed criticism carried in this research pass.

Her public presence is heavier than the department’s usual profile: the research rates her video footprint MODERATE–LOUD and counts her among the small group of officials whose primary video is really X-native — frequent posts and appearances from her official account, which USDA itself launched for her at the start of her tenure, alongside the department’s institutional channels.

Verified channels:

Video sources: MODERATE–LOUD. USDA and White House channels carry her remarks and events; her official X is a primary video source in its own right, and C-SPAN carries her testimony. Full-remarks search order for this site: White House → C-SPAN → committee → agency.

Why she matters to this chronicle: Rollins owns the agriculture record on the administration’s scoreboard: farm-economy conditions, rural programs, and the food programs administered by USDA. Food policy is also where her department meets the administration’s health agenda, so her profile is one of the bridges between this site’s Economy coverage and the Health & MAHA board tracked in depth on RFK Team Report.

Sources (Oct 2026): Research Cluster A (2026-10-18) on her confirmation (72–28, February 13, 2025) and channels; Audit Sprint Report (2026-10-18) for the canonical usda.gov biography URL, visited directly — the page itself links her @SecRollins accounts; Roster Audit source map (2026-10-18) on her X-native video pattern.