Jaime Herrera Beutler: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for having this hearing and for your work in this field.”

You obviously worked these issues. Not all Secretaries do, to be honest.

The data on that is rolling in, and it is not promising.

In April, inflation was 8.3 percent, and the cost of food, housing, gas, energy, all of it is at record levels.

I think my challenge is, is that they limit the pool of qualified bidders primarily to one stream of bidders.