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Secretary Rollins Testifies Before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the FY2026 Budget Request, May 6, 2025

May 6, 2025 · The Union Herald · 1:40:08

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What happened

The Senate Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies held a hearing entitled “A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the Department of Agriculture,” according to the hearing’s published description. Secretary Brooke Rollins testified for the department; a Forbes Breaking News carry of the same hearing, published May 6, 2025, identifies her testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Why it matters

The Senate’s agriculture appropriations subcommittee writes USDA’s funding bill in the Senate — the Secretary’s answers here are the department’s formal case for its FY2026 request on the Senate side.

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The Secretary’s testimony is recorded here as she stated it, to be checked against USDA’s published actions and the appropriations outcome.

Sources: The Union Herald, ‘Senate Hearing on the FY 2026 Budget Request for the Department of Agriculture,’ May 6, 2025 hearing (upload, embedded above); the Forbes Breaking News carry of the same hearing is recorded as an alternate source in the site index.