Other Ag News: USDA, DOJ, DHS, and HHS Launch Coordinated Effort to Crackdown on Chronic Dog Welfare Violators

(Washington, D.C., February 18, 2026) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, alongside U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., together are taking historic actions to hold chronic companion animal welfare violators accountable and prosecute those who fight dogs to the highest extent of the law in an effort to end this horrific practice once and for all.