Rollins has recently run the America First Policy Institute, which has largely stayed out of the spotlight but has made numerous proposals for the second term.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected former White House aide Brooke Rollins to lead the Department of Agriculture.

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Saturday chose Brooke Rollins, his former White House domestic policy adviser, to helm the Agriculture Department, whose wide-ranging purview includes supporting farmers who grow the nation’s two biggest crops, corn and soybeans, and setting the nutrition standards in school cafeterias across the nation.