Brooke Rollins

Now, I think sometimes the Californians tend to inflate that because- What are you trying to say? Yeah, I know. They think a little bit differently about this.

Now, I think sometimes the Californians tend to inflate that because- What are you trying to say? Yeah, I know. They think a little bit differently about this.

Yeah, well, and there's no doubt.

Yeah, well, and there's no doubt.

And I'll put a little note, a little cross the T on what you just said, and that is I'm a Texan, and our South Texas, the citrus farmers down there, think about in Mexico, for some of them, half a mile away they can see it, right across the border, now through the wall, they can see it, and it's $2 an hour. Those farmers are paying $2 an hour over there.

And I'll put a little note, a little cross the T on what you just said, and that is I'm a Texan, and our South Texas, the citrus farmers down there, think about in Mexico, for some of them, half a mile away they can see it, right across the border, now through the wall, they can see it, and it's $2 an hour. Those farmers are paying $2 an hour over there.

You come across on our side, and with everything that we're required to do and pay, it's $20 to $23 an hour. How do you compete? You're growing the same crops. You can't. And so that's what we really have to focus on. Our dairy farmers, you know, the visa programs don't work for them. It's not a seasonal deal. Those cows have to be milked 365 days a year. They can't find people to milk the cows.

You come across on our side, and with everything that we're required to do and pay, it's $20 to $23 an hour. How do you compete? You're growing the same crops. You can't. And so that's what we really have to focus on. Our dairy farmers, you know, the visa programs don't work for them. It's not a seasonal deal. Those cows have to be milked 365 days a year. They can't find people to milk the cows.

So the president, not in today's cabinet meeting, but in the last one a couple weeks ago, brought this up himself. And he said, and he and I talked about it in the first term. We've talked about it since then. He understands that there is a massive labor challenge for our farmers and our ranchers, especially our farmers in this country, but our ranchers as well.

So the president, not in today's cabinet meeting, but in the last one a couple weeks ago, brought this up himself. And he said, and he and I talked about it in the first term. We've talked about it since then. He understands that there is a massive labor challenge for our farmers and our ranchers, especially our farmers in this country, but our ranchers as well.

And he himself said that those who are not here legally, they need to go back, they need to self-deport, but that we will ensure that there's some sort of program in place that will help make sure that our farmers on this side have the labor necessary. that they need. Now, the details of that are being worked out. I can't really talk much about it.

And he himself said that those who are not here legally, they need to go back, they need to self-deport, but that we will ensure that there's some sort of program in place that will help make sure that our farmers on this side have the labor necessary. that they need. Now, the details of that are being worked out. I can't really talk much about it.

But the fact that the president himself is focused on that should give our farmers a lot of encouragement that help literally, figuratively, and metaphorically is on the way.

But the fact that the president himself is focused on that should give our farmers a lot of encouragement that help literally, figuratively, and metaphorically is on the way.

That's exactly right. That is, at this point, You couldn't, it's, you know, I love Elon and love Doge and they've been such a good partner in helping us get rid of the $500,000 grant to study transgender menstruation cycles in men and, you know, what the mice are going to do under a, blah, blah, the craziness. He's been wonderful. But agriculture in many ways is different.

That's exactly right. That is, at this point, You couldn't, it's, you know, I love Elon and love Doge and they've been such a good partner in helping us get rid of the $500,000 grant to study transgender menstruation cycles in men and, you know, what the mice are going to do under a, blah, blah, the craziness. He's been wonderful. But agriculture in many ways is different.

You can't come in here and gut the crop insurance program. You will lose thousands of farmers. And guess who swoops in and picks up their land and their operation? The Chinese. You just can't do it. Now, my goal and my fervent prayer is that in four years from now, we will have moved. We will have opened up the markets.

You can't come in here and gut the crop insurance program. You will lose thousands of farmers. And guess who swoops in and picks up their land and their operation? The Chinese. You just can't do it. Now, my goal and my fervent prayer is that in four years from now, we will have moved. We will have opened up the markets.

We'll have reached this new era of prosperity for our farmers and our ranchers. And in so doing, this should be the goal of every government program. that we're able to roll a lot of that back and out and that we don't need it as much.

We'll have reached this new era of prosperity for our farmers and our ranchers. And in so doing, this should be the goal of every government program. that we're able to roll a lot of that back and out and that we don't need it as much.