US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins warned that dependence on China for agricultural inputs poses an 'existential' threat to American freedom and security. She defended budget cuts by framing food security as national security.

US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told lawmakers on Thursday that American dependence on China for food, fertiliser and other agricultural inputs poses an “existential” threat, framing food security as a national security issue while defending the White House’s reduced fiscal 2027 budget request. “If we need to rely on China for our food and our fertiliser and all the things that come with that, we will lose what we understand to be liberty and freedom in this country. That’s how important...