During the confirmation hearings, Senator Steve Daines of Montana asked Secretary of Health and Human Services Nominee Robert Kennedy, Jr., if he would be willing to support farmers through policy should he be confirmed.
Kennedy responded, “I absolutely will make that commitment. I have, as I shared with you, a personal commitment and a long career working with farmers. I understand the very, very narrow margins that American farmers and ranchers are dealing with and I don’t want, under my watch, a single farmer to have to leave his farm for economic reasons or for regulatory or bureaucratic reasons if I am privileged to serve and be confirmed as HSS Secretary.
“Even more important, President Trump has a very, very strong commitment to farmers. President Trump is probably, historically – in modern history – the best farm president in our history. Farm income spiked for the first time in decades under his last administration. He got solid support from farmers across the country. Farm country is Trump country. Farmers across the country supported him during this election, and he has specifically instructed me that he wants farmers involved in every policy and that he wants me to work with Brooke Rollins at USDA to make sure that we preserve American Farmers and that all of our policies support them.”
