Rollins, a close Trump ally, will lead the department as mass deportation plans could lead to farm labor shortages and tariffs could hit agricultural exports.

The Department of Agriculture is quickly flailing to rehire the bird flu experts they just "accidentally" fired, NBC News reported on Tuesday."Although several positions supporting [avian flu] were notified of their terminations over the weekend,

Conservative lawyer Brooke Rollins was confirmed Thursday as secretary of agriculture, placing a close ally of President Donald Trump into a key Cabinet position at a time when mass deportation plans could lead to farm labor shortages and tariffs could hit agricultural exports.

Rollins, who served as chief for domestic policy during Trump's first administration, was confirmed overwhelmingly by the Senate in a 72-28 vote. Rollins will now lead a department tasked with overseeing nearly all aspects of the nation's food system,

The letter from the federal government arrived in an email Thursday. It informed the Department of Agriculture worker that he was fired.

The Department of Agriculture ordered staff shortly after Trump returned to power to rank webpages by how heavily they focused on climate change.

The Department of Agriculture ordered staff shortly after Trump returned to power to rank webpages by how heavily they focused on climate change.

The Trump administration plans to overhaul food assistance programs, with the new Department of Agriculture leadership promising to fix what they call Biden-era “financial mismanagement” of food benefits.

The Trump administration faces a new lawsuit over its removal of federal webpages that farmers relied on to help them adapt to climate change.

Climate defenders and farmers sued the Trump administration in federal court on Monday over "the U.S. Department of Agriculture's unlawful purge of climate-related policies, guides, datasets, and resources from its websites.

President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive order from his first day in office. An AAMU administrator said their 35 scholars “are in high workforce demand majors such as food science, forestry and other major needs in agriculture.

The Department of Agriculture ordered staff shortly after Trump returned to power to rank webpages by how heavily they focused on climate change.