Jon Tester: “Do the folks in rural America know about it?”

This is -- what's gone on the last two weeks or so, 10 days, has been nothing short of craziness.

I would say two things. Number one this administration has totally blown the opportunity to make government more efficient by going in with a -- with a -- with a meat cleaver and just hack up agencies.

I think we need to take these things seriously. I think the president and I think, more importantly, the military are taking it very, very seriously.

I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.