Agriculture Secretary Rollins Seeks to Clamp Down on Leaks

US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is attempting to tighten the agency’s flow of information between her agency and congressional staffers, according to a USDA email sent Monday to congressional staff, which Bloomberg Government obtained.

Citing a “breach,” Rollins instructed USDA’s Office of Congressional Relations not to give Capitol Hill staff more than an hour’s notice before publicly rolling out initiatives, Tucker Stewart, the deputy assistant secretary for USDA’s Office of Congressional Relations, wrote in the email. The move comes in response to a Bloomberg Government scoop—citing agency correspondence with congressional staff—that USDA was preparing to solicit a tranche of ...

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