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Secretary Rollins Lies in Michigan While Rep. Barrett Stands By in Silence

Today U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins visited Michigan alongside U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett. Despite the White House budget for fiscal year 2027 making dramatic cuts to U.S. Department of Agriculture programs, while also announcing that the U.S. Forest Service will close all of its research facilities in Michigan, Secretary Rollins misleadingly claimed, “there is no one in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan who is getting reassigned to the East Coast.”