Administration of Donald J. Trump, 2026
September 4, 2026
The President. Well, thank you very much, everybody. This is a very important meeting with a great group of people, farmers and ranchers mostly.
And today I'm thrilled to announce that my administration has taken historic action to help our nation's great cattle ranchers and deliver American meat process to the highest standard in any—there will be no standard higher in the world—and sold at the lowest prices directly to the consumer.
Ranchers and farmers have always been a number-one priority to me. I was—they like me, and I like them. Based on the results of the election, they like me a lot, and I like them a lot. They work hard, they're smart, they're efficient, and they are very clean people. They're immaculately clean. That's what we're talking about.
But, for years, I've heard that they have a problem with the big processors. You have basically four massive companies that process the food, and they have to bring it to these processors, and it's a monopoly, I would say. So I've heard all about it. I've been listening to it—the big processors.
And they say they're a very nasty group, very difficult to deal with, and they cost our farmers a lot of money, and they cost our ranchers a lot of money, and they cost the public a lot of money and grief. And we're not going to let it happen any longer.
So this is something that nobody thought was ever going to be done. And I often have asked—over the last few weeks, I decided to do this—"Why didn't other Presidents do it?" And people just said they just didn't do it. But I always hear it's one of the biggest problems that the ranchers have and farmers have.
So, for the first time ever, we're going to give farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food. That's a big announcement. That's a big announcement.
We're creating a program where small- and medium-sized and large ranchers can sell their products directly to consumers so that they don't have to go through the big four processors and middlemen. Oh, they're not going to be happy when they hear this. I don't know who they are, but they're going to be coming at me at different angles. Will you people please protect me? [Laughter] I'm going to need protection from my NFL guy over there.
Hall of Fame Farms owner Joe Thomas. I've got you. [Laughter]
The President. But it's true: They're going to be very upset about this because they had a—they make a lot of money.
We're streamlining all health and safety regulations to make it easy and safe. The cattle ranchers and the farmers—you know, they run great operations, clean operations, but then they have to go through hell. And we're going to have very strong safety inspections, as you can imagine.
But we're going to have them process their own food. If they want, they can go through the other places if they still exist. I don't know if they're going to exist any longer, frankly. But people have been asking for this change for decades, and we're getting it done.
This is the largest ever government effort to change all federal rules and regulations necessary to support our ranchers and our farmers.
And I want to thank Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and all of the people that we work with, including Zippy Duvall, who's been a friend of mine for a long time. Zippy, right?
American Farm Bureau Federation President Vincent M. "Zippy" Duvall, Sr. I've got your back, Mr. President.
The President. Did you ever think you'd do—see the processing thing done, Zippy?
Mr. Duvall. Yes, sir. The President. Huh? Mr. Duvall. Yes, sir.
The President. I especially want to thank the farmers and ranchers who feed our Nation from the Great Plains of Texas and South Dakota to the farms and cattle country of California, Arizona, Ohio, a lot of other areas.
Under the last administration, American agriculture was decimated by crippling inflation and radical-left environmental regulations. They wouldn't let our farmers, our ranchers breathe. Tens of thousands of farms and ranches went bankrupt. They went out of business. Their kids were—were devastated. The families were devastated under Biden, and they did badly under Obama too.
Our cattle herd fell to 86 million, the lowest level in 75 years. We're building it up now, but it fell all the way down to 86 million—way, way below what it was during my administration.
At the same time, the livestock industry has been ripped off by a meatpacking monopoly—which we're probably taking care of, I think, pretty well today—driving down what ranchers earned. They were charging them numbers that were unsustainable.
And '23—'19—if you take a look at it, the worst farm year in the history of our country, they're saying, where they lost $90 billion, was in 2023. And it was, they say—what do I know?—a year like no other.
Was that a tough time, right? A tough time.
But under the Trump administration, all of that is changing. We cut crop insurance premiums by more $400 million. We eliminated the death tax on—where you die, you leave your farm to your children, you don't have a tax to pay——
R.A. Brown Ranch owner Tucker Brown. Yes, sir. The President. ——saving 2 million family farms. You feel good about that, right?
Participants. Yes, sir.
The President. You want to leave them to your kids?
Radke Land and Cattle owner Amanda Radke. Thank you.
The President. If you like your kids, you leave it. If you don't like them, then you don't care about what I just did. [Laughter] But we have it in the big bill. How big is that, right? No—
Washington rancher Nathan Knapp. Huge.
Mr. Duvall. Huge.
The President. No estate tax for the kids, right?
Ms. Radke. My four kids would love the opportunity to pass it on.
The President. Good. Well, now they don't have to go borrow a lot of money and then go bankrupt—right?—and—and lead a miserable life. They have no more estate tax to pay.
So—and it's my honor. That was a terrible thing, especially for the farmers because, you know, sort of land rich and cash poor. You have that beautiful land. You want to keep it, but that's—not necessarily the cash to go along with it. You don't have to worry about it.
So you're saving millions and millions—and billions, frankly—of dollars.
We reduced the drought threshold by half so that ranchers can get Federal support sooner. We cut taxes on the average farm household by $2,300 and, in some cases, many thousands of dollars more than that—7-, 8-, 9,000 dollars.
And my administration's negotiated more than 20 trade deals, opening up tens of billions of dollars in new market access for our farmers. We're getting tremendous trade deals done. And in some cases, they're doing them because we used the threat of the possibility of tariffs, or the ultimate threat, the really big threat, is we're not going to do business with you anymore if you don't take care of our farmers. We have that right. We won that right.
We had that right always, but it was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court's decision on tariffs, which was an unfortunate decision. But the positive was maybe better than—maybe better than tariffs is, if a country treats us badly, we have absolutely no obligation to do any trade with them at all. So, as part of those negotiations, if we want to even negotiate, we take care of our farmers.
In addition to the order to allow farmers to process their own food, I'm also signing an order authorizing ranchers to protect rural communities and cattle herds from predatory Mexican gray wolves, which are costing them tens of millions of dollars and endangering not only herds but people.
So the Mexican gray wolf. Anybody have a problem with the Mexican gray wolf?
H–Y Cattle Company owner Casey Murph. Here. A big problem.
The President. How? Where—where are you from?
Mr. Murph. Arizona, sir.
The President. And is that a very fertile area for the gray wolf?
Mr. Murph. That's where they've released a lot of the Mexican gray wolves: Arizona and New Mexico, sir.
The President. Who released them?
Mr. Murph. It was during the Bill Clinton administration. Mr. Babbitt was secretary of the Interior, and he oversaw that.
The President. Not a great idea, right?
Mr. Murph. No, sir. No.
The President. Although, they are beautiful looking.
Mr. Murph. Right.
The President. But you don't think they're beautiful, do you?
Mr. Murph. Well——
The President. And what do they do, rip your herds apart?
Mr. Murph. They will kill your livestock. They will kill your dogs, your horses.
The President. What about a person?
Mr. Murph. It has happened in the history, yes. It——
The President. If they want to, they will. But they tend to leave them alone, right?
Mr. Murph. My great-grandmother had an incident, but that was over a hundred years ago, before they——
The President. But they do kill pets and things like that?
Mr. Murph. Yes, sir. Dogs, especially. The President. And they're very violent? Mr. Murph. Yes, sir.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins. And, sir, the problem is, because they're on the endangered species list, they can't shoot them. They have to sit and watch them destroy their herd and their cattle.
The President. But you can shoot them as of today?
Secretary Rollins. Well, we're—yes, that is—[laughter]—Secretary Burgum has to do a little magic.
The President. Well, you have to be able——
Secretary Rollins. But yes. Close. We're close.
The President. No, they're destroying these businesses.
Secretary Rollins. That's right.
The President. And nobody's allowed you—you watch them, they go right through your herd, and you're not allowed—and they're violent, right?
Secretary Rollins. That's right.
The President. They're—it's a violent situation.
Mr. Murph. Yes, sir.
Mr. Knapp. It costs people millions and millions of dollars.
The President. And you'd be fine, if you were able, but you're not allowed to protect yourself, right?
Mr. Knapp. No. Nope.
The President. Or your company or your cattle—your nothing?
Mr. Knapp. Nope.
The President. So how do you like the idea that I'm letting you do that?
Mr. Knapp. I'm—[inaudible].
The President. And that will totally solve the problem, right? [Laughter]
Mr. Knapp. Well——
The President. No, I mean you're going to have them, but you'll be able to protect your herd.
Mr. Knapp. Yeah.
The President. And right now, you cannot do anything? Antelope Mesa Inc. cattle rancher Shad Sullivan. That's right. Mr. Knapp. Not in a lot of places.
The President. Or it's illegal, right?
Mr. Knapp. Right.
The President. It's incredible. So where are you from?
Mr. Knapp. Washington state.
The President. And how bad is the problem up there?
Mr. Knapp. Well, it is really bad. We've been——
The President. So which area is the worst? So Arizona, Washington, which is——
Mr. Knapp. I'm not so sure about the—in our area, it's the Canadian gray wolf, and I don't know if—I think it's the—all the same—same one. So——
The President. So let's give it back to Canada. [Laughter]
Secretary Rollins. Exactly.
Mr. Knapp. Oh, we'd love—we would love it.
You know, we've seen it take hundreds of family ranches and just—they're just gone. And it——
The President. And they would be able to protect if they had the right to shoot them?
Mr. Knapp. In our——
The President. But they're not—the Canadian wolf, they're not allowed to shoot that either?
Mr. Knapp. Nope. Nope. In our region, we are federally delisted. And the State of Washington has fought us tooth and nail and won't allow your guys' team to come in and won't allow us to do anything, and——
The President. So they're allowing your herds to be gobbled up, actually, by these——
Mr. Knapp. Encouraged.
The President. And what's the level of danger for people—danger, if you—if you're aggressive, I guess, is what I hear, right?
Mr. Knapp. In our area, there was one girl that was out in a logging area, and she was marking trees. And those—the wolves came in on her, and they put her up in a tree and held her there until somebody else got there with a vehicle and chased them off. So it's a—it's becoming an immense public safety concern, and——
The President. And it's getting worse?
Mr. Knapp. Our sheriffs are all on board, and our State politicians.
The President. Okay. You're allowed to go and——
Mr. Knapp. No.
The President. ——take care of it now. No, no, now.
Mr. Brown. Now.
Mr. Knapp. All right. [Laughter] If you say so, sir.
The President. You're allowed. We have no choice. I mean, you know, look, we have no choice. I've been hearing about it for a long time, and you have no choice.
Just like the processing. It's ridiculous that you're not allowed to keep you—you'll do it cleaner than these four monopolies, two of which are based in Brazil.
Secretary Rollins. Mm-hmm.
Mr. Sullivan. That's right.
The President. So it's, like, ridiculous.
So this order also will require country-of-origin labeling across all foreign beef. So what we're doing: The farmers are processing their food, and I'm signing an order authorizing ranchers to protect rural communities and cattle herds from the predatory Mexican gray wolves and others, which are costing them billions of dollars over the years—billions of dollars—ruining their herds and ruining their businesses.
I mean, do you—do a lot of people go out of business because of this? They will knock you out of business, right?
Orange County, CA, filmmaker and writer Keely Brazil Covello. Yes, it can affect them.
Even if they're not being attacked, it affects breed-back rate. It stresses the cattle out.
But in our blue States, in California and Oregon and Washington, they're still listed. So, the states—
The President. This list?
Ms. Covello. Yes, sir. So the West Coast States have been very unfriendly to ranchers for a long time, and we so appreciate what this administration has done to draw attention to it. But those States are hardest.
The President. Well, we're trying to supersede, like, California and some of the other States——
Ms. Covello. We appreciate that.
Mr. Knapp. Well, one——
The President. ——where they have a—you know, so we want to supersede them. All right?
Mr. Knapp. One thing, Mr. President——
The President. Yes.
Mr. Knapp. ——is there's the States are receiving hundreds of millions of dollars every year for wolf management, and they're going through the State agencies, the State WDFW, and the—and we're funding our own demise. They're using the money they get from you to put us ranchers out of business.
The President. So do you think we should stop it?
Mr. Knapp. I think you should.
The President. So you mean if we stopped paying for wolf management, you're going to—do they actually have something called "wolf management"?
Mr. Knapp. They—it is a—wolf numbers are encouraged under wolf management with—through the State. They're—it's encouraged to put ranchers out of business and encourage wolf populations and decimate the game herds in our beautiful State of Washington. And all that money that our State is getting from you is funding our demise for our game herds, our cattle ranchers, and everything else. It's all just going—the wolves are running—running rampant.
The President. Okay, so let's terminate it.
Mr. Knapp. Thank you.
The President. Take it out. It's ridiculous.
I mean, we've got to take care of it ourselves.
Mr. Knapp. Hey, that's—[inaudible].
The President. You'll maintain it yourself.
So let me ask you: If I decide to go up to your part of the—your neck of the woods, so to speak—right?—and I say I want to take a lovely walk in this beautiful farm country, in this beautiful area, but I don't want a gun because they don't let me have guns and things like that, do people actually walk around without guns to protect themselves up there? [Laughter]
Mr. Knapp. Yes, and then bad things happen.
The President. Yes. I'm not walking around without a gun. [Laughter] It's a good reason. It's a good reason. Second Amendment. But it's a good reason.
What about you? I mean, if I want to take a walk, do you have the problem with the wolves,
too?
Mr. Thomas. We're in southern Wisconsin, Muscoda. Not——
The President. That's good. I like——
Mr. Thomas. Not too many Mexican gray wolves up there.
The President. I like Wisconsin. [Laughter]
Mr. Thomas. Maybe someday——
The President. And we won——
Mr. Thomas. ——if we don't prevent it.
The President. ——Wisconsin by a lot. I like Wisconsin. [Laughter] Arizona.
Mr. Murph. Sir.
The President. Do they walk around without guns?
Mr. Murph. The people who are from Arizona do not walk anywhere without a gun, sir.
The President. But other people—innocent people walking around, and they can get in bad
shape, right?
Mr. Murph. Yes, sir.
The President. It's very dangerous.
Mr. Murph. Not only wolves. There's other things in Arizona too.
The President. What other—what else you have?
Mr. Murph. Well, we have a lot of crime coming across the border. You've slowed that down quite a bit.
The President. Not "quite a bit."
Mr. Sullivan. Hundred percent.
The President. Much more than "quite a"—we've——
Mr. Murph. Yes, sir.
The President. We've stopped it.
Mr. Sullivan. Yes.
The President. We've stopped it.
You know they've had zero illegal aliens come through the border in the last 14 months?
Zero.
Mr. Sullivan. That's awesome.
The President. But what you had is unbelievable. That was really a problem. Huh?
Secretary Rollins. Sir, he's also had a major problem with solar.
The President. Well, he has the remnants of what—from Biden, though. You still have that, and we're getting most of them out. We're taking them out.
Mr. Murph. Well, there's a lot of them that Katie Hobbs is protecting, and it's hard to get those out.
The President. We have to fight her all the time. She's bad news. We have to fight her all the time.
And they have the sanctuary city stuff. They're protecting rapists. They're protecting murderers. It's incredible. Yes, it's a problem.
Secretary Rollins. Sir, she's also trying to take his ranch by putting solar panels on it——
The President. For what?
Secretary Rollins. ——Casey.
Mr. Murph. Katie Hobbs has—I ranch on State ground that I lease. It's been in my family for over 100 years. Katie Hobbs has offered those lands up to solar development companies, and if it had—
The President. So you have a nice, big 10-mile-by-10-mile——
Mr. Murph. Huge.
The President. ——solar piece of black plastic. Right?
Mr. Murph. If it had not been for your Secretary of Agriculture, I would already be gone, sir.
She's managed to hold them off. Not permanently, but if it hadn't been for her, I would not be a rancher anymore.
Ms. Radke. Mr. President, I want to thank you. You've been one of the most pro-farmer/rancher Presidents I've ever seen in my lifetime——
The President. What do you mean "one of the most"? [Laughter]
Ms. Radke. The most. But the liberal left——
The President. Huh? I don't think one.
Ms. Radke. We've been attacked by the "green new deal," by eminent domain lawfare, by Meatless Mondays. That's really—I don't think we've been——
The President. Well, I ended the "green new deal" at least, right?
Ms. Radke. Thank you very much, sir.
The President. We ended that nonsense. The "green new deal"—can you believe it? It's all a hoax.
Ms. Radke. Emissions on cow burps. [Laughter]
The President. That was like Russia, Russia, Russia—a total hoax.
Ms. Radke. Yes.
The President. Anyway. But things are a lot better now, right?
Ms. Radke. Much better, sir.
The President. Okay. Well, they're going to be better after today. A lot better.
So I want to now ask some of our great people—they're going to get up and say a few words. Joe Thomas, who was a great NFL champion player. I wouldn't want to play him in football. I can tell you that. I'd play golf against him, but—[laughter]——
Mr. Thomas. You'd kill me in golf.
The President. But I wouldn't want to play him in football. But Joe is going to say a few words, and then we'll have Secretary Rollins sign—come up and speak, and then I'm going to sign two Executive orders that are going to be very earthshaking from the standpoint of positivity for our ranchers and for our farmers, who I love. I love them. They're great people. They built our nation. They fed our Nation. They built our Nation, and we're going to take care of them.
Okay. Please, Joe, go ahead.
Mr. Thomas. Thanks, Mr. President. On behalf of rural America, farmers, and ranchers, we just want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to come in here today, tell our story, bring issues that are important to us that are affecting our livelihood and our ability to continue raising the best, healthiest beef on planet Earth, which is product-of-the-U.S.A. cattle—born, raised, and processed right here; helping us have the opportunity to select competitive prices with different processing to be able to keep the amazing beef that we're raising close to the farm—as close to home as possible; to feed the most nutritious protein on planet Earth, which is beef, to those communities that are in need.
The President. And you have a big—how many—how many head do you have? Mr. Thomas. We've got a couple thousand in Wisconsin. Hoping to be bigger. The President. How long were you in the NFL?
Mr. Thomas. Eleven years.
The President. Eleven years. That's a lot.
Mr. Thomas. I feel it. Yes. [Laughter] It feels a lot.
The President. You look pretty good. You look pretty good.
Secretary Rollins. Hall of Famer.
Mr. Thomas. Yes.
The President. And you were a great basketball player, right?
Annie Thomas. I was. I was.
The President. Like, great?
Ms. Thomas. Not at the pro level.
The President. Well, you know, they're going to have a child, and they have children who are very tall. [Laughter] They're very tall. I don't have to look at them. I don't have to even think. They're tall and handsome and beautiful.
Brooke, do you want to say a few words?
Secretary Rollins. Yes, sir. Thank you, and thanks to all these incredible ranchers from all over the country.
You mentioned in your remarks that 2023 was a really, really bad year, and there are a lot of reasons for that.
The President. That was a Biden year, not a Trump year. [Laughter]
Secretary Rollins. That's right. You mentioned we lost almost $90 billion in the farm economy. There are a lot of reasons for that. The cost of inputs went up around 40 percent for our farmers during those 4 years. But also, there was not one new trade deal in 4 years. We lost $50 billion in markets around the world just for our farmers.
So what you have done—and this administration all on deck—to reverse that trend: 20 new trade deals. We've cut that agricultural trade deficit in half. We're having record exports around the world: corn, tree nuts, dairy, wheat. Everything is just—it's turning around. Inputs are coming down.
Fertilizer—we're down 60 percent from Biden-era highs in fertilizer, and no one thought that was possible, especially with the Strait of Hormuz. But with the energy independence agenda, it has allowed these farmers to continue farming when a lot of countries around the world are not because of the fertilizer issue, just to name a few.
But today we're here to talk about ranching in America. In the last 45 years, since 1980, we've lost 600,000 ranchers in this country. We cannot continue freedom in America without those who feed and fuel us.
And so today this signal to our ranchers, the signal to rural America, but really the signal to the world is that American ranching and American farmers are back.
And I just couldn't be more proud. You're signing these two EOs today with four major pieces in them. On Monday, I was in Nebraska announcing another slate of pro-rancher, big, big, big changes to—to the way we do policy in Washington for our ranchers and farmers. And then, a year ago, we started this process of making sure there's more competition and that our ranchers could thrive.
Amanda is a sixth-generation South Dakotan rancher, but Joe is a first-generation Wisconsin rancher. We have to protect this way of life for the future—for the first gens but also for the seventh, eighth, and ninth generation.
So, sir, I just—we're just so grateful. Thank you.
The President. And your charts that you're holding? How about taking a look at them.
Secretary Rollins. Yes, you know me and my charts.
Well, it's interesting, and this actually is really—this is—this chart talks about how we've lost all of our ranchers—as I mentioned, 660,000 since 1980. But this is a testimony to the extraordinary ranchers, the ingenuity, the innovation. We do beef better in America than anywhere in the world. So what this red line shows is that while we've lost all these ranchers, we've retained a lot and that we've been able to continue to keep up, at least with the production of beef.
But while we're talking about that, one other thing the President and I talk about quite a bit is the cost of food, and I know that has been a major part of the conversations in the last year or so. And I think what's really important—we talk about 2023 just being a catastrophic year for farmers and ranchers. One thing: That was the year that we began to import more food for the first time under Joe Biden. Again, freedom if you can't feed yourself.
But in the last year—food went up 25 percent in those 4 years under Biden. In just the last year and a half, every category of food has gone down, except a couple of outliers. What we're trying to solve today is the cattle herd low, so we've already begun to see beef come down.
But these numbers are amazing. Of course, we know eggs are down 90 percent. Chicken breasts are down. Pork is down. Other great proteins are down for the great American families. So I believe all really good news for our families, for our ranchers, for our rural communities, and for all of America.
The President. So eggs are down 90 percent. If you remember, during my first news conference—the day after we won, actually—the eggs were up four or five times what they were a short time before. People were screaming at me about the eggs—the egg prices.
And we brought them way down, right?
Secretary Rollins. Mm-hmm, 90 percent. Yes, it's remarkable.
The President. Down to where they were when I—during my administration. They went up during the Biden administration unbelievably. So you have a lot of cost reductions, and the beef is coming down too.
Secretary Rollins. That's right.
The President. Beef is starting to come down. It's trending very strongly down too. So it's good.
We inherited these high prices. We inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country, and—from the Biden administration—and the prices are coming down, not only of food, but just about of everything else. It's been amazing.
And today they announced 162,000 jobs—new jobs, which was about five times more than the projection. And sadly, I said, "Oh, the number is doing so good, the country is doing so well." Watch, the stock market will go down because we have good numbers. Because everyone—every time you have good numbers, the stock market goes down. When you have bad numbers, it goes up because of the stupidity of the way they think about inflation.
And growth does not cause inflation. Stupidity causes inflation. [Laughter] And we have to change our ways, because we had fantastic job numbers today, and stock market should go up.
You know, 25 years ago, when you announced good numbers, the stock market went up because you had a better credit. Your company—your country, or your company, I guess you could say, if it was a company, but it's a country.
When we announce great job numbers, 162,000, that's like four or five times more than what they thought, but—the projections by the great geniuses. But when you announce great numbers, your numbers should—your—everything should go up. It shouldn't go down. It's always the reverse. For 25 years, it's been that way because of inflation.
And, again, success does not cause inflation. Stupidity causes inflation.
So, hopefully, we get a change, when we have a day like this, where the numbers are phenomenal, so much better than anyone thought possible.
And you've seen nothing yet. I mean, with those factories—we're building more factories and plants in the United States today than at any time in the history of our country. We have over
$20 trillion reinvested in this country, which is more than at any time times five. Where there's never been any time in the history of our—
And the reason we do it is because of our trade policies, tariffs, and other reasons, other things, and also the threat that if a country doesn't treat us fairly, we're not going to trade with that country anymore.
So we had great numbers today. Unbelievable numbers coming out. And really, our—you know, we should have a GDP of—we should be allowed to have a GDP of 12, 13, 14, 15, instead of 2, 3, and 4 all the time.
And under this administration, we are doing so well. We could have a growth—we could have a GDP that would break every single record. But you have to be smart. When we have great numbers, the stock market should go up; it should not go down.
So do you have any questions?
Q. Mr. President, on the job numbers today——
The President. Go ahead, please.
U.S. Military Operations in Iran/Venezuela/Commercial Transit Through the Strait of Hormuz
Q. Mr. President, the Vice President said yesterday that he would not describe the conflict with Iran as a war, but the U.S. resumed strikes for the first time in recent weeks. Can you explain to the American people, if this is not a war, what exactly is it?
The President. Well, I tell you what: A lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing.
We did Venezuela, and we did this. In Venezuela, we lost nobody. In this we lost 18 people.
And in Vietnam, you lost 100,000 people. And in other conflicts, you lost tens of thousands of people.
I would say that it's intermittent. You know, we do intermittent strikes. So I under—I heard what he said, and it was interesting because I think that there's a lot of truth to it. We're not fighting right now. There's no fighting.
We're taking out a lot of oil. We control the Hormuz Strait. We control it very strongly. We did a hit on certain areas around the Hormuz Strait. We took out their radar, as you know. You know that very well. We took out some aircraft. We took out some other things that protect—for them, used to protect the Hormuz Strait when they had it under very tight control. But now we
control it, and we're taking out—last night, we took a lot of boats. A lot of ships came through. And they come through every day.
So I can understand what he's saying. It's a military conflict, but it's very intermittent. I could see somebody not calling it a war.
Yes, please.
Q. But it certainly doesn't feel like small potatoes, Mr. President. Eighteen people have died in this.
The President. Yes.
Q. It certainly doesn't feel like small potatoes. Eighteen service members have died. We're seeing record-long deployments. You initially said this would last——
The President. Record long. Wait. Why is it record long? So——
Q. Well, the 82d Airborne is now——
The President. How long were we in Vietnam?
Q. ——going to be extended to a year.
The President. How long were we in Vietnam?
Q. We're seeing record——
The President. No, no. How long were we in Vietnam?
Q. The U.S. Abraham Lincoln was out for more than——
The President. We're in 5 months now.
Q. ——250 days at sea.
The President. We've been—and you know what we did in 5 months? They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. That's what we did. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, because if they did, you probably wouldn't be standing here very long. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
We've stopped them from having——
We may hit Pickaxe very soon because—if there was anything going on with Pickaxe. But because of—because of all of the things——
You know, we're leading in space now by a lot. When I first took over in my first term, we were a distant third to Russia and to China. We're leading in space.
We know every—everybody that's moving at Pickaxe. We know everybody that's moving everywhere, all over Iran.
And if anything goes bad, we hit them. We hit them hard. But we've been in there for 5 months, and in 5 months, what did we do? We stopped them from having a nuclear weapon.
If we didn't go in there, you wouldn't have Israel right now. You wouldn't have the Middle East. And they probably would go at European cities and our cities next. But we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon in 5 months.
Q. So are you ready to declare victory and walk away?
The President. And you know what? We lost 18 souls—18 great souls. I was there to greet the families of those people at Dover, and they're great. I got very friendly with some of the families. They were incredible families.
But—and one is too much. But in Vietnam, we lost tens of thousands of people. In Afghanistan, we lost a lot. Sleepy Joe Biden lost 13 just by standing at an airport, in an airport that they shouldn't have been in because they should have used Bagram, not the local, little airport right in the middle of a city. They lost 13. But they lost 78 people in terms of their arms, their legs, their face was just wiped out. You don't mention that. You don't mention that.
What we've done is amazing. We took over Venezuela, and we have essentially taken over
Iran.
Now, we—there's been no shooting for days. Before the hit that we gave them the other
night to wipe out their—they had radar. They had very sophisticated—they brought in radar because we knocked it out once. Now we knocked it out twice. Now we don't notice any activity. I think they're tired of putting it in and getting blown.
But the Strait of Hormuz is taking a lot of ships. We're getting a lot of ships out of there. A lot of oil is coming out of the Strait. There are no mines whatsoever. We have no mines. You know why? We took out all the mines. They had some mines. We took them all with our minesweepers. They go underwater. Nobody can see them. The best in the world.
So we're doing a great job, and we will—I would say it's a military conflict. If you want, some people could call it a war—I don't think it matters what you call it. What matters is the fact that we have had tremendous success. We stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon.
[At this point, several reporters began asking questions at once.]
Q. But, Mr. President, when can the American people expect some resolution?
President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of Russia
Q. Mr. President, you said, under your watch, that Putin would never attack NATO territory. Now Germany is blaming Russia for an explosive drone found at a German airport. Isn't that an attack on NATO territory?
The President. I don't think that Putin will be—I speak to him. I know him very well. Putin is not looking to attack NATO territory.
Okay?
U.S. Trade Balances/Canada
Q. Mr. President, on the jobs numbers today. Have you spoken with Kevin Warsh? And you've said that "Lower the rate, or I'll stop trading with countries with which we have a deficit." So have you spoken to Kevin Warsh? And if you were to move forward—
The President. Yes, we have countries that we have deficits with.
Q. ——with that, wouldn't that cause more disruption?
The President. I speak to him, yes.
We have countries that are considered elite financially, like Switzerland, like others. But if we didn't trade with them, they would be bankrupt countries. So they're considered elite because we have massive deficits with them.
We have the right not to trade. We have the right to put tariffs on them. But we have a much more powerful right than that: We have a right not to trade with them.
So, if we don't trade with Switzerland—and just to use it as an example: watches, things—if we don't trade, we have no deficit.
Now, we have a big deficit with a lot of countries that should never have been allowed to happen. I had it very much corralled, starting to corral it, my first administration. Then Biden let it go to hell, and we took it over.
We've cut our deficit way down. We've cut our trade deficit way down—tremendously down. Nobody has ever seen cuts like this. But we have the right to take a so-called financially elite country that's paying a much lower interest rate. You know, we have countries paying—some countries are paying a half a point, and we're paying 4 points. And yet we're a much stronger credit than they are, because if we don't trade with them, they don't have any money to pay the bills.
And if we're not going to be treated properly, we're going to do that. And all we have to do to cut our trade deficit with a country is not trade with them.
Canada is one. If we don't do any trading with Canada, we just end all trade with Canada, we'd save ourselves $90 billion. All trading with Canada. Don't forget, they do all of their business—almost all of their business with the United States, and we do a relatively small amount of business with them.
But if we didn't want to—if we were playing hardball, all we'd do is say, "We're going to do no trading with Canada." If we did no trading with Canada, we'd save $90 billion.
And so what I'm saying very simply is that we should be paying the lowest interest rate in the world. Each point in interest in this country that we pay costs us $650 billion. We should be at 1 percent or a half a percent. We shouldn't be at 4 percent.
We have other countries at a half a percent, and yet, if it weren't for us, they'd be bankrupt countries. We should be the lowest in the world, as we were 25 and 30 years ago. Under any circumstance, we were the lowest in the world.
2026 Midterm Elections/The President's Fundraising Activities
Q. Mr. President, when will your—when will your super PAC, MAGA Inc., start spending on Ken Paxton?
The President. We already did. Yes. We did.
Q. But will you spend more?
The President. Well, I have—I think I have, like, a—close to a billion dollars in the super PAC, and I'm allocating probably 4- or 500 million dollars. So I'll be spending—we'll be spending——
Q. For this midterm election?
The President. Yes, we're going to spend a lot of money because we don't want to lose our country. I want to keep these people wealthy, happy, and they have to keep us fed, right?
Q. How do you make—Mr. President, how do you make that determination of how to spend and——
The President. I just——
Q. ——when to spend out of MAGA Inc.?
The President. How do I make it? I sit down and I say: "Let's do this. Let's do that." I'm going to be going around. I'm going to be making——
Q. So it's you choosing where to spend?
The President. I'm going to be making contributions to various campaigns of people that I think are good—Republicans that I think are good, people that I think are going to win and can win or are close to winning, people like—I think we have a chance of doing very well in the midterms.
Look, history has said that the sitting President, Republican or Democrat, no matter how—I don't think anybody has had a better first 2 years than we have. There's never been anything like it. Look at the numbers that you see.
Look at the investment numbers of two—think of it: $20 trillion coming in. Nobody has ever had a first 2 years like we have. It's not 2 years yet, but 1½ years. Nobody has ever had a first 1½ years like we have.
So we're going to just see. I'm going to spend——
Q. When does that money start flowing?
The President. ——whatever amount of money necessary to try and help us. And this is money from MAGA Inc. This is my money that I control. Now, this is separate from the RNC. It's separate from people having money. And I think it's not even counted in terms of the media. I'm not sure that they ever talk about it. They just found out about it.
But yes, we have around a billion dollars that I can spend. I can spend for the next race also.
I can spend it for what I want to spend it for.
But I'm going to help a lot of the Congressmen and Senators that need help. [Several reporters spoke at once.]
Q. Do you think you'll save some of that money for 2028?
The President. I could use it for '28, yes, if I want. Sure. My——
Q. Mr. President——
[Several reporters spoke at once.]
The President. I mean, I expect to have money left over, and we can use that for '28.
Russia/Ukraine/The President's Foreign Policy
Q. And on Moscow, if I could ask just one more question on Moscow. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are expected to go to Kyiv——
The President. Yes.
Q. ——and Moscow. Are they bringing with them new proposals to end that war?
The President. No, they're bringing with them a proposal to end the war. Because I ended eight wars.
Q. The same proposal or a different one?
The President. I hope you're proud of me. I ended eight wars. I get no credit for it. I ended eight wars. Did I get the Nobel Prize? No. Although, the person that got it was nice enough that she gave it to me. She said, "Nobody in the history of the Nobel Prize deserves it more than you."
But in Norway, they don't like me because I think they think I'm a little conservative.
Q. Mr. President——
Interest Rates/Trade
Q. Mr. President, back to the rates. Back to interest rates. A rate hike could reassure the bond market. If you would like to see lower rates——
The President. I—to me, it doesn't reassure a bond market. To me, you should do a rate cut——
Q. And why not?
The President. ——because we should be at 1 percent or a half a percent. We should not be at 4 percent, because everything—as I explained, we could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries.
We lose with the European Union $200 billion a year. If I didn't trade with them, we'd lose nothing. Just one swipe of the pen.
Q. But wouldn't that make prices go higher?
The President. We lose with Mexico $195 billion a year. If I don't trade with Mexico—they have nothing that we have to have. I mean, hot tamales, tomatoes, a couple of things. But basically, they have nothing that we need. We have oil. We have everything.
I don't want to do that because we get along very well with the President. We like the president, respect her a lot.
But if we didn't want to trade with Mexico—if we didn't want to trade with Canada, we'd save from $60- to $90 billion a year just by not trading with Canada.
Now, Canada would be in a heap of trouble. They would—I don't think they'd exist because, again, they do 95 percent of their business with us. So, if I say we're not going to trade, that means 95 percent of their business gets wiped out. I don't know what they'd do. But—
So we should have the lowest interest rate, as we used to 25, 30 years ago, when we were smart.
2026 Semiquincentennial President Donald J. Trump $1 coin
Q. Mr. President, about the Trump coin. How—it's very successful. It sold out in just a couple of hours. I'm with Real America's Voice. Our viewers want to get their hands on one of those. Is there a chance that you guys will probably release more at some point?
The President. You mean the coin, like the coin with the "Make America Great Again" and things like that? Yes.
Q. Yes.
The President. Probably so. I know—I hear it does great. I don't know. I don't run it.
You know what I run? I run this country. I don't focus on that. But somebody told me it sells very well. Yeah.
Thank you. Nice question.
Q. Thank you.
The President. Who you with?
Q. Real America's Voice. I'm with——
The President. Good. It's a good group.
Q. Does the new Air Force One still need to be——
The President. And she's with ABC, one of the worst. Maybe the worst.
Go ahead.
Newly Refurbished Presidential Aircraft
Q. Mr. President, thank you for taking my question. Does the new Air Force One still need to be maxed out? Is it safe to fly——
The President. It's going to be maxed out.
Q. ——to Ireland?
The President. Yes. It's going to go away, and it's a magnificent plane. Interior-wise, the
best.
Q. Will you fly it to Ireland?
The President. Engines, the best.
Oh, yeah, no, I—well, it has a lot of stuff. But to max it out, meaning you can go into any
territory, it will take about 60 days, and it's being sent in October to be maxed out.
Q. And what do you plan to do with the plane after you leave office?
The President. It will probably go to the museum.
Q. Probably? Is that up in the air at this point?
The President. I haven't made a decision——
Q. It's still an open question?
The President. ——but it will probably go to the museum. It's scheduled to go to the museum.
Q. If it doesn't go to the museum, what would you do with it?
The President. I think it's going to the museum.
China/Commercial Transit Through the Strait of Hormuz
Q. Mr. President, on China, one, when President Xi is here, will you host a state dinner?
The President. Yes.
Q. And what does it say to allies as you guys are moving to punish people who support Iran? China is obviously one of Iran's biggest supporters.
The President. Well, not giving it great support.
Q. Does it send a——
The President. Look, China has been——
Q. ——mixed message?
The President. China has been very—I said "Please don't get involved" to President Xi. I have a very good relationship. And they're not really involved. Very little involvement by China.
China could have plenty of involvement. They get 50 percent of their oil from the Hormuz Strait.
And by the way, pipelines are being built right now. The road through Syria, which is fantastic, is being built and it's open, actually. And people are taking trucks through Syria, massive trucks with oil in it. A lot of alternatives are being made to the Hormuz Strait. The Hormuz Strait is not what it used to be.
Iran is going to end up, if they don't get smart, really smart—which I don't know if they can; I don't know if they're able to do that—but they're going to end up with a Hormuz Strait that's not very necessary anymore.
Pipelines are being built all over the Middle East now so they don't have to go through the Hormuz Strait.
U.S. Military Operations in Iran
Q. When should the American public expect resolution on Iran? You just said that you could perhaps strike——
The President. A revolution?
Q. Resolution.
The President. Oh.
Q. You just said that you can perhaps strike——
The President. A big difference. [Laughter]
Q. ——Pickaxe Mountain and other things. When should people feel——
The President. I thought that revolution was more interesting. [Laughter] No.
Q. No, a resolution, sir.
The President. Resolution—I don't know. I can't tell you. But we've already won the big thing. There's not going to be a nuclear weapon.
You know, if we left today, it would take them 25 years to rebuild their country, but I want to leave so that the next President doesn't have to worry about it.
Ukraine/Russia
Q. Can you tell us more about this new proposal for peace between Ukraine and Russia? Would it involve, for example, Ukraine ceding territories to Russia?
The President. No, we have an idea for peace. Look, I settled eight wars. Most of them were supposed to be, in my opinion, more difficult than Russia-Ukraine.
There's a personality problem in Russia-Ukraine. You have President Zelenskyy and President Putin; they truly hate each other. Do you know what hate is? They have serious hate, and it's getting in the way of them—you know, last week they lost 32,000 people, mostly soldiers, last—during the last month. Four weeks, they lost 32,000 soldiers. They're losing, on average, 25,000 soldiers a month. It's got to get settled.
So I did—I sent Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the two great negotiators. They've done a great job. And we sent them over to see whether or not we can get something done. And there may be a good chance that we'll do it.
Mistrial of Lindsay Clancy in Massachusetts
Q. Mr. President, while we were here with you, a mistrial was declared in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Have you been following that trial? Have you watched——
The President. I have.
Q. ——any of it? And what do you make of it?
The President. Well, it's hard not to. It's on television so much. It's hard not to follow it. I followed it, pretty much. But it's a shame. It's a horrible tragedy. It's a horrible tragedy. I see
what's happened, and it's—looks like it's a hung jury, and I think the judge just said it's going to be a mistrial. I assume there's going to be another trial. It's a terrible situation.
Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can't be worse. But you'll find out what the price to pay is. There'll be a price. It's going to be mental institution or jail or something.
Q. Mr. President——
The President. But I guess they're going to go through another trial. It's too bad.
Election Reforms/The President's Legislative Agenda
Q. One last question for you. Thank you so much. Speaker Johnson sent members home early, especially with the midterm elections coming up. Do you feel that Republicans delivered everything you wanted?
The President. Well, he can—look, the House has been great. You know, they sent the SAVE America Act up to the Senate. We're waiting for the Senate. So the House has been great. We got the "Great Big Beautiful Bill." That was—you know, just so people understand, a lot of the things that we gave you, we gave it in the "Great Big Beautiful Bill." We don't have to do new law—we put 17 different bills into that. Lucky we did because it wouldn't get anything else passed. But the House has been—Speaker Johnson has done a fantastic job.
Beef Prices/Foreign Beef Imports
Q. On beef, Mr. President—the suspension of tariffs on ground beef imports. Where is that beef coming from? The White House still has not released——
The President. Well, it's coming from different places. From——
Q. Which countries?
The President. It's coming from Argentina. It's coming from Brazil. It's coming from a couple of other places. We have our inspectors down. It's very clean. It's very good.
And as soon as these people—you know, their herds are increasing. Their herd decreased very, very substantially during the Biden years, during the Biden administration. But even from an environmental standpoint—you know, they wanted to decrease your herds for environmental reasons. Do you believe that one? So we're building up the herds. The farmers——
Q. And to follow up—to follow up——
The President. ——the ranchers are building up their herds.
Beef Prices/Stabilization Efforts
Q. To follow up on that, Mr. President, you had said that importers had agreed that ground beef would be sold at 25 percent below market prices. So are those countries only Argentina and Brazil, or are there other countries that——
The President. Well, there could be——
Q. ——agreed to that?
The President. ——other countries. But right now it's primarily Argentina and Brazil, but there could be other countries. And we're doing it in a very limited fashion because our ranchers can handle it. But our ranchers really needed a little bit of help, and our ranchers want the prices to be down too. They want to see the prices come down.
But I think a very big thing, and I hear it—I've been hearing it for a long time—is the food processing. Our ranchers are going to be able to do their own food processing, and they'll have inspections. They'll have inspectors. They'll have everything just like these big plants had them.
But I would be willing to say that our ranches will be more sanitary than those plants. I think it's going to be a great thing. I would think it's going to make a big difference when you can do your own processing. You don't have to drive hundreds of miles away.
Q. On the—on the labeling——
The President. Hey, Zippy, could I ask you to say a word? Zippy, you are such a great leader. Go ahead.
Mr. Duvall. Well, thank you, Mr. President. It's always an honor to be here with you, and you've had—you have been the best president for farmers and ranchers and continue to do that.
The President. Thank you.
Mr. Duvall. Of course, a lot of things that happen in agriculture is very difficult and very complicated, and some of these issues are complicated. But these executive orders that you are signing today to recognize that we ought to evaluate the wolves is a really good move because if we put them back in a state where they can maintain themselves, we shouldn't have them threatening our cattle herds and our—and the people around this country. So that is a great, great thing.
And being able to process your meat, it opens up the opportunity for small, beginning, young farmers to——
Secretary Rollins. That's right.
Mr. Duvall. ——actually start out little and have the opportunity to grow bigger by being able to slaughter or harvest their animals closer to home and being able to give sales directly to the consumer. So that's one of the areas that we see growth in agriculture today, especially with the first-generation farmers. So I think those are very good moves.
Q. And, Mr. President, on the country——
The President. Thank you, Zippy. He's done a fantastic job.
Country-of-Origin Labeling
Q. On the country-of-origin labeling, what is the timeline there? When can consumers who go to the stores——
The President. Well, that's going to be——
Q. ——see that?
The President. ——up to the House.
It's also going to be a little bit involved with Congress because I understand Congress has something to do with that one. So we're putting it in front of Congress right away. It should be no problem.
Q. How soon would you like to see it?
The President. It should be no problem. And they're——
Q. How soon?
The President. ——working very hard at getting the farm bill approved too.
Data Centers/Artificial Intelligence
Q. So what was your—what is your message to communities who say they don't like data centers and they're—they're worried AI could become dangerous?
The President. Well, I look at data centers very, very carefully. I mean, being formerly in the real estate business, I was really good at real estate, and I can tell you, if I were running a state or a town, if I was a mayor or a Governor, I would want as many data centers as I can because they throw off tremendous amounts of money. The—they don't take any energy because, you know, the new ones that I approved, they all create their own energy. They're—we're giving them the right to build their own power plants, so they don't have to use the grid.
They're actually taking their excess energy—and they're building some incredible plants along with the building. So, they're building their own generation plant, and the excess is going back into the grid, so we're actually making money on that. It's going to bring energy costs down.
The—the data centers, you want to build them in the right location, but if you want to get rich as a State or as a town and if you want to pay lower taxes, if you want to create tremendous wealth, if you want your house to be more valuable and everything else, you're going to want a data center. If you want to go through poverty, crime, and squalor, I would say don't approve data centers. You know, it's—you have your choice.
So I'm all for people approving them or not. But if you look at places that have really gotten wealthy and rich and lower taxes and—they—that's where properly approved data centers have—have been allowed to go up.
Now, if they don't approve them, there's a lot of places that want them, both in this country and, in particular, in China. All over the world they want them.
So I don't like seeing where that opportunity would be squandered. And the people that squandered are going to come back in 5 years and say, "Wow, we made a big mistake because that place is located in a different location, and everybody has gotten rich."
So I think if you want success, you have to go with the data center. You want them to be proper. You want to check them for sound and for—you know, all the different things.
But, again, they create their own electricity, so you're not going to have a problem there. The water is going to be—they do them in so many different ways, including desalinization and everything else. These data centers are making a fortune for people that live relatively near them.
Doesn't mean you want to be right in their backyard, but for people that live in the area of data centers, they've been an unbelievable success.
[Several reporters spoke at once.]
Artificial Intelligence/Global Competition
Q. Do you have any concerns about AI—do you have any concerns about AI veering out of control and launching cyberattacks?
The President. No, we watch it very carefully. We're leading China in AI, and whoever wins AI, wins. That's the power. This is bigger than the Internet. This is a revolution. You know, we've had a few of them over the last 200 years, but this is a revolution.
And I've seen some results that are incredible, medically. You know, we're coming up with things, medically, that no—we wouldn't have maybe in 100 years.
Whoever wins with AI, wins.
Q. Mr. President, on——
The President. And it's really—right now it's really between China and us. Thank you very much, everybody.
President Xi Jinping of China
Q. On China, Mr. President. On China, has President Xi done enough——
Q. President Xi is coming in 2 weeks. What do you hope to accomplish?
The President. Well, President Xi is coming on September 24. We look forward to it. He's a great gentleman. We get along great. We have a very good trading relationship. And you know, they're a competitor and all of that, but we have a very good relationship with President Xi.
He's coming with his beautiful wife. She's a beautiful woman and a great woman, respected all over the world. They're coming together. And we have a beautiful heliport, should he want to use a helicopter. It just opened. The—in fact, if you want to go outside and check it out, it's beautiful. Just was completed—under budget, ahead of schedule, and beautiful.
But he is coming on September 24, and we're going to have a state dinner, and we're going to—we do great things with China. We've been doing very well with China.
China took advantage of us for years. For years. I don't blame them. You know, we had people that were not smart sitting behind this desk, but we've done very well with China, and China and I have a very good relation—he and I have a very good relationship.
[Several reporters spoke at once.] Thank you. Thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 2:13 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona; Logan, Camryn, Jack, and Reese, children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas; Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors Kevin M. Warsh;
U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steven C. Witkoff; Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado; President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo of Mexico; William Sullivan, judge, Plymouth County, MA, Superior Court; and Peng Liyuan, wife of President Xi. He also referred to his son-in-law, U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Jared C. Kushner; and S. 1383. Ms. Radke referred to her children Scarlett, Thorne, Alexander, and Croix. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on September 5.
Categories: Addresses and Remarks : U.S. ranching promotion efforts, signing Executive orders; Interviews With the News Media : Exchanges with reporters, White House.
Locations: Washington, DC.
Names: Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Brown, Tucker; Clinton, William J.; Covello, Keely Brazil; Duvall, Vincent M., "Zippy," Sr.; Hobbs, Katie; Johnson, J. Michael; Knapp, Nathan; Kushner, Jared C.; Machado, María Corina; Murph, Casey; Peng Liyuan; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich; Radke, Amanda; Rollins, Brooke L.; Sullivan, Shad; Sullivan, William; Thomas, Camryn; Thomas, Jack; Thomas, Joe; Thomas, Logan; Thomas, Reese; Vance, James D. "J.D."; Warsh, Kevin M.; Witkoff, Steven C.; Xi Jinping; Zelenskyy, Volodymyr.
Subjects: 2026 midterm elections; Afghanistan, withdrawal of U.S. military forces; Agricultural production, strengthening efforts; Air Force One, VC–25B bridge aircraft; Arizona, Governor; Artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies; Beef prices; Bond markets, stabilization efforts; Canada, trade with U.S.; Carbon emissions, reduction efforts; China, President; China,
trade with U.S.; Consumer prices; Data center site selection and construction; Egg prices; Electricity capacity, expansion efforts; Estate taxes; European Union, trade with U.S.; Federal Reserve System; Gray wolves, population management; Illegal immigration; Inflation; Interest rates; Iran, commercial transit through Strait of Hormuz; Iran, nuclear weapons development; Iran, U.S. military operations; Job creation and growth; Manufacturing industry, domestic investment; Massachusetts, mistrial of Lindsay Clancy in Plymouth County; Meat-processing industry, competition and pricing; Mesico, trade with U.S.; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Ranching and livestock operations, promotion efforts; Republican National Committee; Russia, conflict in Ukraine; Russia, President; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act; Secretary of Agriculture; Solar and wind energy; Speaker of the House of Representatives; Stock market; Tariffs; Tax Code reform; U.S. Special Envoy for Peace; U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions; Ukraine, President; Ukraine, Russian invasion and airstrikes; Venezuela, U.S. military capture and exfiltration of President Maduro; Vice President.
DCPD Number: DCPD202600575.