Secretary Rollins and Secretary Noem Host a Press Conference in Support of the Maude Family, Apr. 30, 2025
April 30, 2025 · USDA · 0:44:41
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What happened
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem hosted a press conference in support of the Maude family, published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on April 30, 2025. In the department’s description, the family endured what the department characterizes as a senseless politically motivated prosecution waged by the Biden Administration over 25 acres of federal land; that characterization is the department’s, and the press conference is the published record of the two secretaries’ appearance.
Why it matters
A sitting Agriculture Secretary and Homeland Security Secretary appearing together for a ranching family in a federal land dispute puts the administration’s land-use enforcement posture on the record — the case sits where USDA’s land constituency and the Justice Department’s prosecutions meet.
Scoreboard watch
The secretaries’ statements at the press conference are recorded here as they stated them, to be checked against the disposition of the Maude family’s case.
Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, ‘Secretary Rollins and Secretary Noem Host Press Conference in support of the Maude family,’ April 30, 2025 (official upload, embedded above). The characterization of the prosecution is the department’s, as published in its description.
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