Sarah Frey, founder of Frey Farms, and longtime Trump ally Charles Herbster are among the list of names President-elect Donald Trump is considering tapping as his Agriculture secretary, according to four people familiar with the transition.
Both are GOP donors and outsiders to the federal government. Trump has yet to wade into final decisions about who will lead his USDA. But he faces a major question over how much influence he’ll allow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to have at the Agriculture Department, given Kennedy’s antipathy to broad swathes of agribusiness.
Politically powerful, conservative-leaning agriculture groups are eager for Trump to slash regulations. But some of Kennedy’s biggest goals to ban or limit certain farming practices and unhealthy foods would require Trump to implement an entire regime of new regulations.
A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to an inquiry.
