The Senate has confirmed celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, placing the former TV personality in charge of two health programs used by millions of Americans.
The vote to confirm Oz fell along party lines, with 53 Republicans for and 45 Democrats against. Democrats have criticized Oz as a potential threat to Medicaid as Republicans consider cuts to the program, which provides health insurance at low or no cost to poor people.
Oz has said he plans to tackle waste and fraud in the healthcare system, and he has echoed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s emphasis on reducing the cost of healthcare by confronting an epidemic of obesity and chronic disease.
“We have a generational opportunity to fix our health care system and help people stay healthy for longer,” Oz said during his confirmation hearing last month.
President Trump, while nominating Oz, said "there may be no physician more qualified and capable... to make America healthy again."
Trained as a heart surgeon, Oz became a household name as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show before launching his own talk show, which ran from 2009 to 2022. He is known for his advocacy of alternative medicine and a holistic approach to wellness that emphasizes diet and lifestyle.
Democrats have criticized Oz as a quack who has peddled dubious treatments, and they say he will advance an agenda to privatize government health insurance that poor and vulnerable people depend on.
Oz deflected questions about Medicaid cuts when grilled by the Senate last month, but he pledged to tackle insurance fraud in Medicare Advantage, a privately run version of Medicare that Oz had long supported in his career as a TV personality.
The doctor was critical of the use of "upcoding" to jack up the cost of treatment by listing questionable diagnoses. He also suggested using automation to reduce delays and costs tied to prior authorization, which insurance companies require to certify the medical necessity of certain procedures.
"If you're going to have a knee replacement and you can bend your knee more than 120 degrees, you don't get to get the knee replacement -- or whatever number you want to put in there,” he said. “And then, if we know those numbers ahead of time, like a credit card -- credit card approval doesn't take you three months – you know immediately whether the transaction's approved or not. We will be able to do something similar so that pre-authorization could happen rapidly.”
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which Oz now leads, has an annual budget of $2.6 trillion and oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, which collectively provide health coverage to about half of Americans.
Medicaid provides health coverage at low or no cost for poor people, while Medicare covers people above age 65 and younger people who are disabled.
About 300 CMS employees are facing layoffs as part of Secretary Kennedy's restructuring of the Health and Human Services Department, which includes CMS. While thousands of workers have been fired across HHS, Kennedy has said Medicare and Medicaid won't be impacted.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
It's the fast-track for a court hearing on charges by Liberty University that a worker, hired and then fired, deceived the school and violated a standard to which he had agreed, all in order to undermine the school's religious rights.
The fight is over a lawsuit brought by Jonathan Zinski against Liberty. He was hired but then fired shortly after his probation period had ended.
He had agreed at hiring to follow the school's religious standards, but then after the probationary period claimed he was a woman and would be portraying himself as a "she." He also confirmed that he had been taking drugs to "transition" even before he was hired by the school.
But the school's standards, based on the Bible, recognize male and female and do not support those who claim to change from one to the other, a scientific impossibility.
Liberty Counsel is representing the school and Chief Mat Staver said, "The appeal certification allows Liberty University to appeal this critically important question of religious freedom which can result in controlling the outcome of the case. Zinski intentionally and deceptively set up Liberty University in an attempt to undermine its religious beliefs and mission. Title VII exempts Liberty University from having to employ individuals who violate its religious beliefs and doctrinal positions."
Liberty Counsel confirmed the U.S. District Court of Western Virginia now has certified the appeal for expedited consideration regarding the Title VII lawsuit, Zinski v. Liberty University.
In certifying the appeal, Liberty Counsel said, Senior Judge Norman K. Moon noted Zinski's "sole claim" invokes Title VII sex discrimination "raising the question of whether Liberty University is exempt from sex discrimination in order to uphold its religious doctrines."
Moon previously said after the Supreme Court's decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, neither the Fourth Circuit nor the Supreme Court have clarified the interplay between Title VII's statutory exemptions for religious institutions and individuals claiming to be "transgender."
Moon noted that if the higher court finds that Title VII exempts Liberty University from sex discrimination, then it would be "wholly immune" from this lawsuit. He stated such a ruling could lead to the possible ending of the case saving Liberty University significant pre-trial effort and expense.
Liberty Counsel said it will push both the Fourth Circuit and, if necessary, the Supreme Court to recognize what the First Amendment and Title VII both require— "that Liberty University is permitted to maintain its religious beliefs and practices and to require its employees to comport their lives with Liberty University's Doctrinal Statement and religious beliefs."
Zinski had been terminated "after he flagrantly and intentionally violated Liberty University's doctrinal statement and policies regarding the biblical understanding of gender. When Zinski was hired, he acknowledged and affirmed the doctrinal statement, but then as soon as his 90-day probation period expired he revealed he had begun taking female hormones four months before he was hired, and that he planned to 'identify' as female."
Liberty Counsel charged, "Zinski set up this case when he applied to be hired."
WND previously reported when the lower court judge, Moon, refused to dismiss the case, claiming the school cannot "erect a shield against antidiscrimination laws by asserting that mere acceptance of a member from a particular group would impair its image."
He also claimed having the Christian school employ Zinski does not significantly burden its ability to maintain its views and does not affect its freedom of expressive association.
Liberty University's doctrinal statement clearly states that human beings were directly created in the very image of God as either biologically male or female from the womb, and it is a sinful act prohibited by God to deny one's birth sex by self-identification with a different gender.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A transgender agenda adopted by many school districts across the nation, a policy that is being challenged over and over by parents, has taken a huge hit in a court in the leftist state of California.
There, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit by a mother against the Chico Unified School District over the decision by officials there to covertly help her fifth-grade daughter's "gender transition."
That's the idea that a girl can become a boy, or vice versa, through chemicals and body mutilating surgeries, even though that, by science, can't happen as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
Nevertheless, as part of the agenda, wildly and extensively promoted by Joe Biden while he was in office, schools often allow their teachers, counselors, and others to persuade children they are transgender. Then they facilitate treatments for the child, all the while keeping their actions secret from parents who almost never would approve.
According to a report from the Center for American Liberty, an organization launched by attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon, who now is serving in the Trump administration, "The Constitution is clear, parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. Government-run schools cannot usurp that role behind closed doors."
The report called the decision from the 9th Circuit a "significant First and Fourteenth Amendment victory."
The appeals court ruled that the case brought by Aurora Regino "may proceed, reversing a lower court's dismissal."
The decision said, "the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children."
"Today's decision restores hope to parents nationwide that their rights don't end when their children enter the classroom," said Mark Trammell, CEO of the Center for American Liberty. "The Constitution is clear, parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. Government-run schools cannot usurp that role behind closed doors."
"Regino filed the lawsuit after learning that her 11-year-old daughter's school had been affirming a new gender identity, complete with name and pronoun changes, over a period of weeks, all without any notification to or involvement from her. At the time, her daughter was struggling with mental health issues, including anxiety and depression," the organization reported.
Regino said, "No mother should ever be blindsided by a secret school policy that excludes parents from life-changing interventions."
The opinion also said that "the right to familial association encompasses the right of parents to make important decisions about their children's health and education," a conclusion that is seen as putting guardrails around "ideologically driven practices in public education."
The organization reported the case began for Regino's daughter, A.S. "when an elementary school guidance counselor decided to socially transition her from female to male without Aurora's consent. In fact, the school never even notified Aurora that this transition was happening."
The CAL said, "It took the school guidance counselor just minutes to determine (1) that A.S. was really a boy, and (2) that at school A.S. would have a male identity: new name, new pronouns, etc.—after A.S. confidentially expressed gender confusion to her. But it took no time at all for the Chico Unified School District to decide to socially transition A.S. without so much as a phone call to her mother, Aurora."
In California, extremists at the state level decided that schools are prohibited from telling parents about such "gender transitions."
President Trump fired some national security staffers after right-wing journalist Laura Loomer encouraged him in person to purge suspected "neocons" who don't share the president's agenda.
The president defended Loomer, who took credit for the firings, as a "patriot" while also denying she had any role in the shakeup.
"Laura Loomer is a very good patriot and she is a very strong person. I saw her yesterday for a little while. She makes recommendations of things and people, and sometimes I listen to those recommendations," Trump said aboard Air Force One.
"I listen to everybody and then I make a decision. … . She always has something to say and it’s usually constructive. … She recommended some people for jobs," he added.
The fired officials include National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh and civilian Deputy Director Wendy Noble. Haugh, a Biden appointee, also led the Cyber Command. Loomer wrote on X that Noble and Haugh "have been disloyal to President Trump," adding, "That is why they have been fired."
Trump also fired people at the National Security Council, including Brian Walsh, the senior director for intelligence; Maggie Dougherty, the senior director for international organizations; Thomas Boodry, the senior director for legislative affairs; and David Feith, the son of George W. Bush official Douglas Feith, often described as an architect of the Iraq War.
Loomer, who runs her own opposition research outfit, is known for vigorously defending Trump against perceived traitors and "neocons" -- meaning people with hawkish foreign policy views that peaked in influence under former President George W. Bush -- who many Trump supporters see as a threat to the president's agenda.
During a White House meeting on Wednesday, Loomer named and shamed individual NSC staffers and recommended that Trump fire them, the New York Times reported. At one point, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, a former Bush administration official who worked as a counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, jumped in to defend the individuals.
Loomer later criticized White House officials who leaked the meeting's details to left-wing media.
"Out of respect for President @realDonaldTrump and the privacy of the Oval Office, I’m going to decline on divulging any details about my Oval Office meeting with President Trump. It was an honor to meet with President Trump and present him with my research findings," she wrote on X.
Trump's national security team was thrust into controversy recently after Signal chats about military strikes in Yemen were leaked through a liberal reporter. The president has called the controversy overblown, and he has defended Waltz, who added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat.
The president is said to be reluctant to fire anyone over the leak, believing that it would play into the hands of his liberal media opponents.
Trump is operating with a more loyal and cohesive staff than he had during his first term, when Trump was often undermined from within by insubordinate officials with deep ties to the culture of Washington D.C.
Still, some Trump backers are skeptical of certain administration officials including Waltz, whom critics have called a "neocon" because of his work in the Bush-Cheney administration. Loomer reportedly pushed Trump to fire Waltz's deputy Alex Wong, although it appears he has not been fired.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Watch as a pro-life activist is brutally attacked and punched by a hate-filled attacker while doing interviews.
Savannah Craven was assaulted while interviewing people on the streets of Harlem:
The attacker is talking about the "magnitude" of having a child, and Craven responds, then directs the microphone back to the interviewee, who lunges forward and smashes her fist into Craven's face.
The video is from Live Action, which reported, that Craven's husband, Henry Antao, explained a woman approached and started a conversation.
"But during the interview, she suddenly assaulted Craven Antao," the report said.
Craven had pointed out, "I'm not the one who admitted they would be okay with killing babies in foster care and killing children that had been abused."
Then the woman knocked Craven to the ground.
"She appeared to attempt to assault her a second time, but Craven Antao's husband positioned himself in between them. Craven Antano was brought to the hospital for her injuries," the report said.
Antao told Live Action, "[We] were out on the street in Harlem doing some street interviews. My wife … was assaulted by a pro-abortion woman we were interviewing… The woman became aggressive and violent upon learning Savannah's pro-life stance. I intervened to protect my wife and we immediately called 911. The police arrived, and we provided them with the assailant's photo and description. We hope justice will be served soon."
Antao said, "We are pro-life activists because ending abortion and protecting babies from the violence that Planned Parenthood commits is the most important issue of our lifetime."
Social media responded:
"Killing children is the ultimate violent act, so punching someone is nothing."
"The left is so violent and uncivilized."
"That's assault."
Christine Grady, wife of Anthony Fauci, was fired from her job as bioethics department head at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Centers, Breitbart reported. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also "reassigned" several of Fauci's former staffers.
Fauci is best known for his role as the top adviser during the coronavirus pandemic. He had served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and later as the White House chief medical adviser under then-President Joe Biden.
Some believe Kennedy was compelled to fire Grady and the others because of a vendetta against the COVID-19 vaccines. Fauci was also notoriously in favor of draconian lockdowns, as well as vaccine and mask mandates.
With the elimination of these jobs, Kennedy's office has greatly reduced the infectious disease division as well as sections of the Food and Drug Administration. Perhaps it signals a philosophical change with Kennedy now at the helm as some cry foul.
Kennedy's critics at Politico were apoplectic about the change, but Kennedy explained his reasoning in a lengthy post to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday. "This is a difficult moment for all of us at HHS," Kennedy wrote.
"Our hearts go out to those who have lost their jobs. But the reality is clear: what we've been doing isn't working. Despite spending $1.9 trillion in annual costs, Americans are getting sicker every year," Kennedy continued.
"In the past four years alone, the agency’s budget has grown by 38% — yet outcomes continue to decline. We must shift course HHS needs to be recalibrated to emphasize prevention, not just sick care," Kennedy added.
He added that the "changes will not affect Medicare, Medicaid, or other essential health services," Kennedy wrote. "This overhaul is about realigning HHS with its core mission: to stop the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again. It’s a win-win for taxpayers and for every American we serve," Kennedy concluded.
This is a difficult moment for all of us at HHS. Our hearts go out to those who have lost their jobs. But the reality is clear: what we've been doing isn't working. Despite spending $1.9 trillion in annual costs, Americans are getting sicker every year. In the past four years…
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) April 1, 2025
While Kennedy's rationale makes complete sense, Politico insinuates that Kennedy is interested only in retribution. "As an anti-vaccine activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent years attacking Anthony Fauci and sowing doubts about the successful effort he led to develop a Covid vaccine," the news outlet claimed.
"As HHS secretary, he’s exacting his revenge," authors Adam Cancryn and Erin Schumaker added. The article explained that Grady was fired, and three others who were "Fauci’s longtime colleagues" at the NIH could choose reassignment to Alaska or leave employment.
"It’s like a Fauci fixation," claimed Scripps Research Translational Institute head and public health expert Dr. Eric Topol. "So many of these people are just dedicated; they really want to do good, and now they’re losing their jobs senselessly," he added.
Even if Kennedy's motives are not pure, there's no doubt that the public health officials flubbed the pandemic response. The lying and obfuscation, the measures that didn't work, and the coercion are all reason enough to dismiss these people, including Grady.
The people who were supposed to guard public health did a lousy job when they were needed most. Unless Kennedy thoroughly cleans house, there's no way to get rid of the rot that caused the debacle in the first place.
The undersecretary for management at the State Department, Tibor Nagy, stepped down on Friday after less than three months on the job, but it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone who had the inside scoop on the situation.
Nagy served in the first Trump administration and came out of retirement to take his current position.
Officials said he was returning to retirement and that doing so had always been the plan.
"Ambassador Nagy was honored to come out of retirement to help stand-up the second Trump administration, and it was always his plan to perform the duties of the Under Secretary for Management until more State Department leaders were confirmed," a State Department spokesperson said in an email.
Nagy helped oversee DOGE's actions in cutting USAID and making other changes at the State Department.
"We have long needed to examine the fundamentals of how we conduct foreign policy," Nagy wrote in the email. He also said more changes were needed to transform the department into one more "suited for the 21st century."
"While these changes can be unsettling, please continue to be receptive and supportive of these efforts," he wrote to the workforce.
Assistant Secretary of Administration José Cunningham will succeed Nagy, the email said.
The department has been embattled because of the changes to how foreign policy is conducted with the elimination of USAID.
Critics of the changes warn that eliminating so much foreign aid so quickly could make the U.S. more isolated, but some reports said that many of the aid programs were based on DEI and other principles antithetical to the values of the countries receiving aid.
Around 83% of the aid previously administered through USAID was cut, and the rest was absorbed into the State Department, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been trying to cut $1 trillion from the U.S. annual budget in order to eliminate deficit spending and get a handle on the nation's $36 trillion in debt.
The White House reported this week that Elon Musk, who has been spearheading DOGE, can only serve in that capacity for 130 days because he is not an official government employee.
As an advisor, Musk has been hard at work looking for fraud and waste wherever it can be found so that taxpayers are not being taken to the cleaners for nothing.
The high-powered law firm where the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris works has agreed to provide $100 million in free legal services for the Trump administration, marking another humiliation for Harris after her decisive election loss to Trump last fall.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher, which employs Harris' husband Doug Emhoff, is the third elite law firm to make an agreement with the White House to avoid sanctions.
It's the latest capitulation from the elite legal profession, or "Big Law," which has skewed to the left for years. The Trump administration has sought to bring the politicized legal profession to heel, threatening sanctions against firms with a history of engaging in "lawfare."
Wilkie Farr provided tens of millions of dollars in pro bono work for two Georgia women who won an eye-popping settlement in their defamation suit against Rudy Giuliani, a top Trump ally who was separately disbarred over his 2020 election advocacy.
Wilkie Farr also employs former investigators who worked on the politically motivated January 6th committee, which recommended criminal charges against Trump for "insurrection."
According to the Trump administration, Wilkie Farr will provide $100 million in legal services to advance causes across the political spectrum, such as helping veterans, fighting antisemitism, and ending the weaponization of the justice system.
Wilkie Farr also agreed to stop discriminating against job applicants on the basis of politics and race. The firm will desist from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policy and hire based on merit. Finally, the firm committed to providing legal representation for all, regardless of their political beliefs.
"Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP proactively reached out to President Trump and his Administration, offering their decisive commitment to ending the Weaponization of the Justice System and the Legal Profession. The President is delivering on his promises of eradicating Partisan Lawfare in America, and restoring Liberty and Justice FOR ALL," the White House said in a statement.
According to sources, Emhoff was opposed to the firm's decision and encouraged them to resist Trump.
“The rule of law is under attack. Democracy is under attack. And so, all of us lawyers need to do what we can to push back on that,” Emhoff told students at a Georgetown University event Tuesday.
Two other top firms, Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps, have reached similar agreements with the White House.
The White House is engaged in a multi-front legal war to defend Trump's agenda, which has faced a series of setbacks in front of activist judges.
Courts have blocked Trump from targeting certain law firms such as Perkins Coie, which became a household name over its role in procuring the notorious Trump-Russia dossier on behalf of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
The White House confirmed that Elon Musk will leave the Trump administration in the coming months, once his "incredible work with DOGE is complete."
Musk's cost-cutting work with DOGE has been at the center of controversy during the early months of Trump's second term. Democrats have attacked Musk repeatedly, while accusing Trump of empowering a shadowy "oligarchy" that caters to the super rich.
In fact, Musk's company, Tesla, has suffered from the backlash to his government role.
Both Trump and Musk have said that the Tesla CEO will step down in the near future, when DOGE's work is finished. Musk is a "special government employee," a status that is limited to 130 days.
The president's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, dismissed a report from Politico that said Musk is considered a "liability" within the Trump administration.
"This 'scoop' is garbage. Elon Musk and President Trump have both *publicly* stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at DOGE is complete," Leavitt said.
Musk added, "Yeah, fake news."
Musk previously told Fox News' Brett Baier that 130 days was enough for him to finish his job.
"I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by $1 trillion within that time frame," he said.
Trump expressed regret this week as he acknowledged the coming end of Musk's tenure.
"Well, I think he's … amazing. But I also think he's got a big company to run. And so, at some point he's going to be going back. He wants to," Trump said earlier this week.
"I'd keep him as long as I can keep him," Trump said. "He's a very talented guy. You know, I love very smart people. He's very smart. And he's done a good job," the president added. "DOGE is, we've found numbers that nobody can even believe."
While Musk is soon going to be leaving his government position, Vice president J.D. Vance says the critical work of DOGE will continue - and Musk will remain a "friend and adviser" to the Trump team.
“The work of DOGE is not even close to done. The work of Elon is not even close to done,” Vance told Fox and Friends. “DOGE has got a lot of work to do … that work is going to continue after Elon leaves."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Agenda calling for fairness for American products, manufacturers … and consumers
President Donald Trump's campaign to reach fair trade deals with the international community, as expected, hit American consumers with "short-term" pain this week, as stocks measured by the S&P 500, Nasdaq and the Dow Jones Industrial Average all bumped down by a couple of points on the release of his tariff plan.
Trump's extensive tariff agenda includes tariffs for foreign goods imported into the United States that align with tariffs those nations charge for American goods delivered to their citizens.
Analysts have confirmed that the short-term pain is real, but the plan is for the end result to be a better market for American products and American consumers.
On Thursday, just hours after Trump's tariff program was revealed, doomsayers claimed the market "fell significantly." One report even said they "plunged."
The markets, in fact, were down a couple of percentage points, with those individual stocks whose managers have been relying on favorable import structures to make money hit the hardest.
Trump said, in all caps, "THE OPREATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVERY BEFORE…"
Trump even has gone to the point of making sure those who have been gaming the system now will be playing in a fair field, by eliminating the so-called 'de minimus' exceptions that allowed overseas companies, from China and the like, to ship directly to American consumers and avoid tariffs.
Those rules had allowed shipments under $800 in value to avoid any payment, and billions of those shipments were routinely sent and delivered.
Trump had given the Commerce Department time to develop a plan to collect those payments, and he said that now is in place.
Starting May 2, shipments under $800 will be subject to an ad valorem duty of 30% of the value of the postal item or $25 per postal item. On June 1, the per-postal-item tariff will increase to $50, reports confirmed. Billions in revenue for America are predicted.
The Washington Examiner noted the S&P was down about 3%, the Dow Jones about 2.8%.
Also affected were international markets, with Japan's Nikkei 225 down 4% and South Korea's Kospi index down about 2.7%. Other markets in Europe, Germany, France and London were down between 1% and 2%.
Gold was at $3,090. And cryptocurrencies were down in the range of 3%.
Trump said, "For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike. With today's action, we are finally going to be able to make America great again – greater than ever before. Jobs in factories will come roaring back into our country."
There is a 10% base tariff for all, he said, and "reciprocals" will mean a 54% tariff for China.
Trump has explained the plan is all about the long game – getting trading partners who clearly are protecting their own economies at the expense of the U.S. to reduce or remove their barriers to fairness.
Analyst Charlie Gasparino noted Trump "knows trading partners will respond in kind; U.S. goods will get more expensive overseas and import prices spike. That's where the stagflation comes in. Everyone I know who knows Trump says he's committed to the tariff hammer because he believes in his heart that they will rebuild America, bring jobs back to the Rust Belt and as he explained in his press conference, the trade deals we have crafted with even our allies are so unfair."
He said the "good" that could happen is that, "Trump's art-of-the-deal making skills will change the protectionist behavior of our trade partners."
Sid Miller, of the Texas Department of Agriculture, said, "President Trump doesn't often hold back—and yesterday was no exception. The world is quickly realizing that in his second term, you either strike a fair deal or face the consequences. These tariffs mark a bold step toward ensuring that American farmers, ranchers, and producers are no longer subjected to unfair trade practices. The goal is clear: to reverse decades of one-sided agreements and secure fair, equitable deals for all U.S. industries—not just agriculture. Our president has proven yet again that he keeps his promises.
"I won't sugarcoat the reality that there will be short-term challenges for our agricultural community. However, this trade war is about something bigger: securing lasting, fair agreements that protect the American farmer. President Trump has made it clear that our small farmers will not be left behind. Under the guidance of Secretary Brooke Rollins, the USDA has already stepped up, demonstrating a strong commitment to providing the necessary support. I have full confidence that this administration will continue to equip our farmers and ranchers with the resources they need to weather this storm and emerge stronger than ever."