Brooke Rollins
Appearances
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2147 - HUGE: The Washington Post SURRENDERS…To Reality!
So just this morning, we announced the plan to, first of all, attack the avian flu and how we pull it back out of our poultry producers. But secondly, how we bring the cost of eggs down. So that plan has five parts. The first part is a biosecurity part. And what that means is that How do we lock our poultry barns down? How do we ensure that our egg laying chickens aren't getting this disease?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2147 - HUGE: The Washington Post SURRENDERS…To Reality!
Secondly, we're going to work to move much more quickly on repopulating the 160 million birds that have been culled in just the last few months. Third is a deregulation effort that is ensuring that the rules that have been layered on our producers, our egg producers over the last really four years that we begin to peel those back. The fourth is we're looking to import eggs in the short term.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2147 - HUGE: The Washington Post SURRENDERS…To Reality!
This is just on the cost piece. And then the final more long term is putting significant funds into vaccine and therapeutic research.
The Bulwark Podcast
James Carville and Michael Weiss: The Whole Country Could Go Under
I think the silver lining in all of this is how do we in our backyards, we've got chickens in our backyard, how do we solve for something like this? And people are sort of looking around thinking, wow, well, maybe I could get a chicken in my backyard. And it's awesome. I agree. Yeah, I think everyone who isn't a farmer right now wants to be. So you're in the right department, Brooke.
The Bulwark Podcast
James Carville and Michael Weiss: The Whole Country Could Go Under
If you want real security guarantees, if you want to actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Oh, Charlie Kirk, I mean, really, what a joy on so many levels. I know we have gotten to talk quite a bit off of the camera and off of your show, but this is the first time I've been back on the show, and I'm just so grateful to do it. But thank you so much. It's the honor of a lifetime.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Well, it's funny, you know, all of the talk in Washington and certainly the amazing State of the Union, which was unbelievable. I'm sure you've spent a lot of time on your show talking about it. Oh, yeah. And it's what's happening with Ukraine, what's happening with America across the world, what's happening at the border.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
I mean, what's really happening across all of government with Elon and Doge has just been... Astounding. It's another revolution. But at the end of the day, if the single mom who lives in Detroit, Michigan, can't go to the grocery store and afford a carton of eggs, then the world's not right, right? I mean, it's that sort of...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
pocketbook issue and that as we, Charlie, you and I have long battled together to take the American dream to every corner of our country. These are really, real significant issues. I don't have my chart here with me, but if I did, and by the way, President Trump loves this chart, but it shows that for 40 years, the price of eggs was pretty static. It was right around $1.50, $2 a dozen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Then under Obama, it went up, not surprisingly, because of overregulation and higher taxes, et cetera. The cost of input went up, but not significantly, you know, maybe from $1.52 to $2.53. Then under Trump, without anything intentional, but just because less government, lower regulations, everyone did better, the prices went back down. But then under Biden...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
they skyrocketed 230% higher than what they were under Trump 1. And there's reasons for that, over-regulation, et cetera. But the avian bird flu, which is a virus that these chickens have gotten, is a huge reason. The Biden team basically depopulated about 150 million chickens egg-laying hens last year, which is the protocol.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
We're looking at the protocol now to see how to tweak it so that hopefully we don't have to do that moving forward. But we did.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
We rolled out a five-point plan about a week ago, includes deregulation, includes repopulation much more quickly, includes importing eggs from other countries for the short term, and then for the long term, figuring out how to solve for these viruses that are basically annihilating significant populations in our poultry industry.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
That's exactly right. Now, alongside the Biden crazy inflation, crazy overregulation, crazy spending, right? I mean, the bird flu has certainly been a massive driver in that, but it isn't just that. And, you know, as much as we would love to get the price of eggs down to $2 by tomorrow, although I think we're making some good strides, I've seen some recent numbers that
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
This is going to take a little while. It's going to take a little while to figure out how to solve for the flu. It's going to take a little while to get the deregulation, such as Prop 12 in California and line speeds and other things back to normal before they were in Trump 1. And frankly, just bring the cost of goods down across the country. But we're making incredible strides.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
I'm so proud of this president. He has just been such a, I mean, we all know this, right? Such a warrior for everything that we care about. And my role now becomes, you know, the farmers, the ranchers, the ag community, bringing prosperity back to rural America and getting the price of those eggs down. That's at least what he's told me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Well, it is. And when I got the call on November 23rd from President Trump, it was a Saturday before Thanksgiving. My husband and my four kids and I were driving to Auburn, Alabama for the Texas A&M-Auburn football game and very unexpectedly had a conversation that, I mean, really kind of changed everything.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Although I will eventually go back and join you, Charlie, out in the trenches doing the great work outside. I mean, yeah, that's where my heart is. But but but it is a it really is. It's a privilege. It's a blessing. But it's a big job. I mean, people assume, to your point, it's corn and soybeans and some beef.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
But it's also the food stamp program, which is a massive bureaucratic nightmare of a beast where we're not even really getting food. the food to the people who really need it most. And when we are, it includes Cokes and candy and all kinds of bad stuff. So there's massive amount of work that we need to do there. It also includes the Forest Service. So we've got the largest firefighting unit
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Anywhere in the country of any size of government is the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service. We've got almost 30,000 firefighters in our community. So yesterday I was in North Carolina.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
They've got some fires that have popped up that are a little bit scary, looking at the damage of Hurricane Helene, but also understanding what we need to do and the resources that are necessary to ensure we don't have another fire like what happened in California, that all the different components are are working well together. You name it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
I think USDA was the first agency, the first cabinet position created after the founding of the country. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson created defense and state and attorney general, etc. They waited almost 100 years, and then Abraham Lincoln created the Department of Agriculture. And then it was a little while longer before the other ones came along.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
And so I think it became a little bit of the dumping ground for all the things that didn't have a place in a federal agency. But that's part of the great role. And I welcome it and I thrive with it. How do we realign the United States Department of Agriculture?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
How do we set a model for not just the federal government, but around the country on how you realign, how you reduce in force, how you become more effective and more efficient with much less money? And that's what we in our very small team right now, we're still trying to get people in the door today. But that's what we're doing every day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Well, there's no doubt. I've been now to six or seven different states. I've only been in for about two and a half weeks, I guess three weeks, and been to, gosh, a bunch of states, talked to a bunch of farmers, almost 200, I think, from around the country, had a lot of them come to Washington. It's really important to me that I get outside the noise of Washington and outside the kind
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
the associations, et cetera, not that they don't play a very good role, but I want to talk to the farmers directly. And in so doing, the number one issue for them is the uncertainty that tariffs and the potential trade renegotiations, what that means for our ag community. And listen, Charlie, in 100 years, I'm not sure that the ag community, that our farmers and ranchers have been
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
operating at more of a razor-thin margin than they are today. I mean, it is not a good place to be. Our exports, we have a trade deficit of $49 billion in ag, thanks to Joe Biden. It was zero when we left President Trump's first term. That is real money taken out of the pockets of our farmers. But the number one thing they're concerned about is trade.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
And so yesterday, the president, who I have been talking to, and he These are his people, right? We are his people. And he knows that the rural communities and the ag communities have been with him since the moment he came down that escalator. It took other people a lot longer to get on board.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
In early 21, when others were running for the hills and not supporting President Trump, this community was, and he knows that. So he mentioned the State of the Union a few times on Tuesday night. Farmers, I'm with you. I love you. Yesterday, I talked to him multiples of times as they were finalizing at least a 30-day deal to exempt farmers
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Ag products under USMCA going to Canada or Mexico, which is a huge relief, even if short-term. They exempted fertilizer, also called potash, from Canada under a different kind of line. But at the end of the day, the president is hyper-focused on delivering for the American people He was elected on tariffs being part of that toolkit in order to bring prosperity back to America.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
But I am so confident that he is also an everyday thinking about the real world effects on the backbone of this country and in rural America, which are our farmers.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
So at the end of the day, I think what's really important, and I'm assuming most of the people watching you today, Charlie, and are fans of yours probably also watched the president on Tuesday night. This isn't easy, right? Revolution is never easy. And there are really hard decisions to be made.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
And there are days that, my goodness, the concept of how you get this massive beast of the federal government that has gotten too big under both the Democrats and Republicans, right? Democrats and Republicans. How do you take it back to where it is meant to be? How do you return the power to the people?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
How do you implement our founders' vision of self-governance when things have just gotten so out of control in Washington? And while, Charlie, you and I are both very much pathological optimists, I don't even know that you or I could have imagined the world that we're in right now in the best way, right? We've got... Elon Musk, who is just doing such a phenomenal job. We have a cabinet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
We're like family, and we're all working together. We've all now known each other and worked together for years at this point. So it isn't like we're in our silos anymore. This is a team effort to save America. So as I'm going to the Hill, and part of my message has been, Charlie, When you're in a revolution and you are significantly reducing the size of government, nothing will be perfect.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
It will be imperfect. There will be mistakes made, but this sort of shaking up the whole system and almost restarting it in a way, There's not going to be another opportunity, I believe, perhaps in our lifetimes to do exactly what we're doing now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
So even as I'm talking to our friends on the Hill, but even this morning, I talked to a Democrat senator, and I won't say who it was, but we had a very collegial conversation about what our goals are, what we're trying to do at USDA, the importance of returning voters. And realigning the agency.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
And for the most part, even those on the other side of the aisle understand that President Trump won with a mandate and winning a popular vote and winning all the swing states. And that's now what we're working to effectuate. So I have gotten nothing but mostly general support. positive feedback, even from those on the other side who understand what it is we're trying to do.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
And for the most part, doing it with the best, well, for our sake, we are doing it with the best of intentions. But even those on the other side, I think for the most part, recognize that while they are not in power, they may not make these decisions, but they realize this is what the American people have asked for.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
No, Brooke. Brooke forever.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Thank you, Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did Gavin Newsom Start A Dem Civil War? + The ActBlue Implosion
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Headlines
U.S. Economy Under Stress, and a Behind-the-Scenes Look at DOGE
Talking to three or four countries right now about getting between 70 and 100 million eggs into the country in the next month or two, which of course will help with supply and demand.