{"id":6182,"date":"2025-02-15T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T05:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/brooke-rollins-confirmed-as-usda-chief-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T05:20:23","slug":"brooke-rollins-confirmed-as-usda-chief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/brooke-rollins-confirmed-as-usda-chief-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Rollins confirmed as USDA chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted 72-28 on Thursday to confirm Brooke Rollins&rsquo; nomination to serve as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. All Republicans agreed to pass Rollins, but more Democrats voted against her than expected &mdash; including Sens. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Ben Ray Luj&aacute;n (D-N.M.), who initially helped advance her out of the Senate Agriculture Committee to the full Senate floor&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/13\/congress\/brooke-rollins-confirmed-agriculture-secretary-00204043\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted 72-28 on Thursday to confirm Brooke Rollins&rsquo; nomination to serve as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. All Republicans agreed to pass Rollins, but more Democrats voted against her than expected &mdash; including Sens. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Ben Ray Luj&aacute;n (D-N.M.), who initially helped advance her out of the Senate Agriculture Committee to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}