Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
All-In Podcast, LLC
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🗓️ 4 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
(0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins!
(1:32) How she ended up in Trump's two administrations, history of the USDA
(16:56) Trump's first 100 days, what needs to be reformed in the USDA
(21:31) SNAP's massive impact on USDA budget: soda, obesity, health challenges; how being DC outsiders helps the Trump Administration
(30:48) How she reconciles running a department with a lot of government intervention after coming from a free market background
(34:33) State of US farming in 2025, labor costs, opening up new markets, and more
(42:11) Working with DOGE, Farm Bill negotiation, stance on agricultural innovation
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| 0:00.0 | Secretary Rollins, thank you for joining me here. |
| 0:02.6 | Can you call me Brooke? |
| 0:03.6 | Brooke. |
| 0:04.4 | Okay. |
| 0:05.0 | I didn't. |
| 0:05.8 | I mean, I'm wearing a tie. |
| 0:07.2 | There's a degree of formality. |
| 0:08.4 | You just came from a cabinet meeting. |
| 0:10.0 | I did. |
| 0:11.7 | Food security is national security. |
| 0:14.8 | America is the largest ag exporter in the world. |
| 0:17.2 | These farmers don't want all these checks. |
| 0:19.9 | No one wants a handout. Exactly. |
| 0:21.6 | No one wants a handout. |
| 0:22.6 | Fifteen billion dollars a year is spent on soda. |
| 0:24.6 | Taxpayer dollars will be spent on sugary drinks and junk food that's making our kids sick? |
| 0:31.6 | Absolutely not. |
| 0:32.6 | Does that mean we shut them down? |
| 0:34.6 | Does that mean? |
| 0:35.6 | No, of course not. |
| 0:36.6 | Part of that was having 300 executive orders drafted. |
| 0:38.3 | We did it all very quietly. |
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