Top Trump Official Says Americans on Medicaid Should Replace Deported Farm Workers

President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke to reporters on Tuesday after meeting with several Republican governors and promised that there would be no amnesty for illegal agricultural workers in the U.S. — adding that Americans on Medicaid should replace them.

MAGA influencers fumed at Rollins over the weekend and on Monday, suggesting that she was behind a movement to pressure Trump to grant amnesty to farm workers. Charlie Kirk sounded the alarm Monday, saying, “They are pushing him for mass legalization of illegals. Now, President Donald Trump, of course, would never push for amnesty, but President Donald Trump said something at a rally on July 3rd, and my phone lit up like you wouldn’t imagine.”

Kirk was referring to Trump telling a rally in Iowa that “We got to work with the farmers and people that have hotels and leisure properties, too. We’re going to work with them. And we’re going to work very strong and smart.”

Rollins was asked about the administration’s policy toward farm workers, and answered, “The second question, where we are on farm labor, a little bit earlier, but what I will say is that Lori Chavez-DeRemer is our Secretary of Labor. And the H2A visa program, all of the programs that ensure to moving in seasonal ag workers are under Secretary Chavez-DeRemer. She has been working around the clock with her team.”

“I think we’ll probably hear a little more about this today, and the conversations will continue. But I can’t underscore enough. There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way, and we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation, which, again, with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly. Thank you,” Rollins concluded.

Rollins made similar comments at other points during the presser, adding, “Ultimately, the answer on this is automation, also some reform within the current governing structure. And then also, when you think about, there are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program. There are plenty of workers in America.”

Many on the right were quick to highlight Rollins’s statement and credited Kirk for Rollins’s promise that there would be “no amnesty.”

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