Monthly Archives: December 2025

Ag secretary threatens to intervene, hints that agencies could lose federal funding

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins threatened to intervene to defend a Washington ranch against allegations by state regulators that it illegally filled in wetlands in arid Central Washington. The Trump administration “will not sit idly by” as ranchers Wade and Teresa King are penalized for maintaining stock-water ponds, Rollins said in a Dec. 9 letter to […]
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