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A top U.S. trade official this week briefed House and Senate lawmakers on the administration’s priorities for an upcoming review of a North American trade pact, listing multiple ag issues among the discussion points.

The Senate has confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and Brooke Rollins as secretary of agriculture.

Today is a critical day for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and hopes for the Make America Healthy Again movement. The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on Kennedy’s nomination Tuesday. But a key Republican committee member, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, wouldn’t tell reporters Monday how he was planning to vote, saying only that he and Kennedy had a “cordial” conversation over the weekend.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wants to work closely with prospective Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to help farmers transition to regenerative agricultural techniques, including the use of less chemical-intensive practices that he said are destroying the soil and making people sick.

Former U.S. Trade Representative and trade policy architect Robert Lighthizer has so far been overlooked for key economic policy roles — a move some who worked closely with him say could hamper Trump's trade policymaking.