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Brooke Rollins , the president’s agriculture secretary said there would be “big announcements” next week in order to facilitate Donald Trump’s pledge to allow ranchers and farmers the ability to process their own food and avoid the “nasty monopoly” of large processing plants.

Rollins said it was a “matter of national security” that the US is able to “feed and fuel ourselves” . She outlined that her department would waive “red tape in processing” and expand ranchers ability to “sell across state lines” , as well as other measures.

The agriculture secretary previously defended the president’s decision to pause higher tariffs on 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef .

Earlier this week she called the move “a very short-term fix” to “get lower cost beef on to American plates ” in an interview with Spectrum News. However, Rollins admitted that she did not know where the beef would be imported from. “I am actually not part of any of those conversations, so I am not sure what that looks like. I think we’ll know very soon,” she said.