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.

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

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,

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.

Billions of dollars for rural electric cooperatives are stuck in limbo as the Department of Agriculture continues the Trump administration’s funding freeze, despite federal court orders

While legislation has already filed in the Florida Legislature to ensure all official state documents, maps, and references be changed to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,

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,

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.

One office in the Agriculture Department show how efforts to comply with Trump’s DEI order have halted some grant payments, even as judges have ordered an end to its funding freeze.

The US Department of Agriculture is facing a legal challenge over its move to wipe out information on climate change from its websites.

After DOGE canceled a lease for USDA's Risk Management Agency regional office in Topeka, the building owner called it an example of government waste.