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Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins - 📍 St. Martinville, Louisiana
Louisiana’s sugar cane farmers help feed America — and today, we announced new action to protect their crops and livelihoods.
Pasture mealybug is an invasive pest that can damage sugar cane, destroy pastures, and kill plants within weeks. @USDA is confronting it head-on:
➡️ We released a coordinated Action Plan outlining USDA’s response in Louisiana, Texas, Florida, and Georgia.
➡️ We awarded $500,000 to @LSUAgCenter to help researchers detect the pest, control outbreaks, identify resistant sugar cane varieties, and give farmers practical tools to protect their harvests.
➡️Increased funding for the Plant Pest and Disease Program to $90M in the Working Families Tax Cuts Act
The award comes through @USDA_NIFA’s Rapid Response to Emerging and Re-emerging Pest and Disease Program, which we created last year to move quickly when new threats emerge.
Thank you to my friend @LAGovJeffLandry, the incredible team at LASUCA, and Louisiana’s hardworking sugar cane growers for standing with us.
The Trump Administration is putting American farmers first.
https://x.com/SecRollins/status/2103626731622179320

Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins - 🇺🇸
https://x.com/SecRollins/status/2103628161699193249

Secretary Chris Wright @SecretaryWright - Senate Democrats have a rare opportunity to pass bipartisan permitting reform that would dramatically lower energy costs for the American people.
The time is now. Delaying would be futile to our efforts and good faith negotiations.