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Welcome Ceremony for Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Feb. 14, 2025

February 14, 2025 · USDA · 0:17:07

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What happened

The U.S. Department of Agriculture held a welcome ceremony for newly confirmed Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, published by the department on February 14, 2025. The department’s description invites virtual attendance at the welcome reception of the newly confirmed Secretary; the ceremony, held the day after her Senate confirmation, is her first recorded event with USDA employees.

Why it matters

The welcome ceremony opens Rollins’s tenure: it is the first time the department’s workforce heard from the Secretary directly, one day after the Senate confirmed her on February 13, 2025, as this site’s chronicle records.

Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, ‘Welcome Ceremony for Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins,’ February 14, 2025 (official upload, embedded above). Grounded in the department’s published description and the upload’s metadata.