I wish USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins would use less inflammatory language in making her announcements. They sound right out of George Orwell’s 1984—or the 1950s McCarthy era—and do not speak well for American democracy.
Let’s start with the banner at the top of USDA websites. If nothing else, it violates the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from partisan public statements.
Next, take a look at ICYMI: Secretary Rollins Pens Newsweek Op-Ed “Theatrics Don’t Feed the Hungry” [my emphasis]
What began as a program for the neediest Americans, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stamps, has exploded to serve one in every eight Americans. The food stamp rolls have not only skyrocketed due to eligibility loopholes and regulatory boondoggles—each allowing for millions of work-capable adults with school age children to participate—but a program that has recently become a “leverage” point for Democrats in their self-inflicted government shutdown…So, the truth has revealed itself. Democrats’ support for programs like SNAP is now reduced to cynical control over people’s lives.
Instead of focusing on reopening the government and keeping programs like SNAP and WIC functioning…Senate Democrats are holding firm on propping up failed government programs with billions in health care subsidies that benefit corporations over people. Not to mention exposing their far left agenda items: illegal aliens, open borders, gender mutilation and more…It is unconscionable.
I agree on “unconscionable.”
On Monday, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins’ filed this comment on X:
@POTUS is doing everything he can to help our most vulnerable mothers and babies while Radical Left Democrats continue to obstruct.
Name-calling does not help.
Red-baiting does not help.
Civility might.
