00:00And it isn't one trade deal or two trade deals, it's dozens of trade deals.
00:05And so talking about rural prosperity and bringing the golden age back to rural America,
00:10which has been lost for too long, and we're gonna focus on that next year,
00:13hopefully with our vice president, many of our cabinet members.
00:16But the opportunity to do that under these new trade deals is unprecedented.
00:21And so just putting farmers first or ranchers first, Mr. President, is such a huge,
00:26such a huge priority and an accomplishment of the last year.
00:30The second quick thing is lawfare, and I know you know this better than anyone in the country.
00:35When a government politicizes and weaponizes their power to go after average, everyday Americans,
00:42well, from you, the top of the heap as president, but all the way down to the ranchers in South Dakota,
00:48the Maude family, who were facing jail time over a fence line dispute that had been in their family for 130 years.
00:56We fixed that.
00:57The family, the Henry family in New Jersey, who were facing their farm being taken away for eminent domain to give to affordable housing.
01:05We fixed that.
01:06So being able to completely change the trajectory of private property rights,
01:10but especially as it has to do with our farmers and ranchers in our rural communities, changes everything for our country.
01:16And then the third thing, we have so much great things to talk about at USDA,
01:20but the third thing which became very much a part of the national conversation during the Democrat shutdown was snap reform, food stamp reform.
01:29When all of America saw what so many of us know and have been working on,
01:34but when you have so much rampant fraud in a program that 42 million Americans participate in,
01:40now a big good piece of news that I hope is written about,
01:43since you became president, about 800,000 of those 42 million have moved off of food stamps,
01:48which is hopefully the plan with better jobs, higher wages, et cetera.
01:53But still, when we found 186,000 dead people or dead people's social security numbers being used,
02:00500,000 people receiving benefits more than twice.
02:05We had a couple of people receiving benefits in six states.
02:08In February of this year, we asked for all the states, for the first time,
02:12to turn over their data to the federal government to let the USDA partner with them to root out this fraud
02:19to make sure that those who really need food stamps are getting them,
02:22but also to ensure that the American taxpayer is protected.
02:25Twenty-one states said yes.
02:27Twenty-nine states said yes.
02:28Not surprisingly, the red states.
02:30And that's where all of that data, that fraud, comes from.
02:33But 21 states, including California, New York, and Minnesota, the blue states, continue to say no.
02:41So as of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states
02:48until they comply and they tell us and allow us to partner with them to root out this fraud
02:53and to protect the American taxpayer.
02:56As Joe Biden was working to buy an election a year ago, he increased food stamp program funding by 40 percent.
03:04So now as we continue to roll that back.
03:07So the partnership in making America healthy again is also in food stamps,
03:11but a lot of what we're going to, Bobby and I are doing together is really remarkable.
03:14But again, just gratitude and joy for this work.
03:18And so, so grateful to you.
03:20The final thing I'll say, a lot of gratitude to Secretary Marco Rubio for wearing his Aggie maroon tie
03:27as a reflection of Texas A&M beating Florida handily about a month ago.
03:33So, Marco, I want to thank you and much gratitude and joy in my heart as well. Yes.
03:38I think we also have to say something about China with one of the largest purchases ever in our country, the soybeans.
03:48Yes, sir.
03:49And so I want to thank President Xi. We had a great meeting.
03:51We were in South Korea and I went to a lot of other places too,
03:55but we met in South Korea and President Xi was great.
03:58And China gave us among the largest orders in the history of your world, agriculture.
04:04That's right.
04:05And sir, may I say, this is the remarkable result of real leadership and your real leadership.
04:12Just a couple of days ago, China announced that they were going to halt all purchases from Brazil
04:18because they had found some irregularities in some of the soybeans they're buying from Brazil.
04:23And what that means is a continued signal that this country and our farmers produce the best, highest quality soybeans, sorghum, etc. in the world.
04:32And what you've been able to do is open those markets up and, again, move toward an era where our farmers are not so reliant on government checks.
04:40Because they won't really go through
04:56long-term loans.
04:57For example, they set the great importance of theayed lizard because of the southern coast of Brazil.
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