Congress has stepped up, but as you know that is a difficult process.

The current safety net is frayed and is in dire need of meaningful reinforcement.

The reality suggests the existing safety nets need to be enhanced.

A newly reinforced safety net is essential if the United States would like our farmers and ranchers to continue to produce the most abundant, most affordable, and safest food supply in the world.

Our producers are one trade war, one natural disaster or market downturn, or geopolitical conflict away from having to sell the farm.

The reality suggests the existing safety nets need to be enhanced.

Our producers are one trade war, one natural disaster or market downturn, or geopolitical conflict away from having to sell the farm.

We also need an all-of-the-above minerals approach: new mining, recycling, and being as efficient and effective as we can.

The 2023 Farm Bill must provide our producers with the risk management tools required to farm and ranch in this new reality.

And if we develop those minerals here and develop the other parts of the supply chain, then that means generating huge amounts of wealth for the United States, for U.S. workers, for great jobs in rural communities.

Oversight should be a bipartisan effort by Congress to exercise our constitutional duty to have checks and balances over an administration.

We are also seeing actions from the Administration to shut down mining, and those two things really don't go hand in hand.

As we pour more money into an electrified economy, we are increasing the labor participation rate in Congo with forced labor, with child slave labor.

We can't mine and permit our way out of this. Actually, we would have to permit and then mine.

We do need to work on trade. We do need to make American, not only mining, but processing and manufacturing, stronger than ever before.

Congress has stepped up, but as you know that is a difficult process.

Seventy billion dollars is a huge amount of money, and we can be proud that we are doing that.

A newly reinforced safety net is essential if the United States would like our farmers and ranchers to continue to produce the most abundant, most affordable, and safest food supply in the world.