重播：美農業部就農業安全行動計畫舉行記者會 多名內閣成員出席

Good morning everyone. Thank you all for being here this great morning here at USDA in Washington, D.C. I especially want to thank my colleagues from the administration, Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary Christine Noem, Counselor to the President Peter Navarro, the incredible governors who joined us today from Arkansas and from Tennessee and from Nebraska, whom you'll hear from amazing members of Congress that are here with us. You'll get to hear from Senator Tuberville, Senator Marshall and Congressman G.T. Thompson. We also have leaders with us here in the audience from Alabama, from Arkansas, from Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia who have joined us for this historic rollout to address one of the most significant national security threats facing our nation. But first I want to say that we gather together at a moment when the power of nature is rendered especially vivid to us. The floods in my native Texas, which have carried away so many lives, many of whom my family knew, has caused so much heartbreak and brought so many tears. It touches every one of us, not just those of us from the Lone Star State, but every American who cares about their neighbor and especially every parent whose heart reposes not within themselves but within their own children. It is not within our power to ease their pain, nor should those most devastating losses be erased or eased. But what we can do is grieve alongside them, and I know that's what we're all doing. And we can also join them in a sorrow that honors the joy of their children's and their family members' lives. It is not and has never been God's purpose that we suffer, but it is within His design that we rely upon His creation. We see that in extraordinary natural tragedy as over the last few days, but we also see it in the beneficial fruits of His creation, the bounty of the land, the yield of our farms, the produce and the product of our labor. That dependency upon His goodness is part of His purpose, and so as stewards of creation, we have an obligation to protect it. In protecting it, we protect ourselves, and that's why we're here today. Nowhere is this illuminated more vividly than in the stewardship and conservation of our American farmlands. We're here to talk about that today, and we're here to address one particular facet of that stewardship, responding to one particular type of threat. The plain reality is that American agriculture in American hands is a positive good, a rich blessing that we carefully tend, and upon which rests the sustenance and future of our republic. Every family, every home, every community depends upon what our farmers do, and they support and sustain us, not merely by keeping us materially fed, but by keeping us spiritually strong. The farm's produce is not just a commodity, it is a way of life that underpins America itself, and that's exactly why it is under threat from criminals, from political adversaries, and from hostile regimes that understand our way of life as a profound and existential threat to themselves. For them, agricultural lands and our farms, because they are a previous inheritance, are weapons to be turned against us. We see it again and again, from Chinese communist acquisition of American farmland to criminal exploitation of our system of agriculture to the theft of operational information required to work the land and beyond. All of this takes what is profoundly good and turns it towards evil purposes. But November 2024 signaled its time for our federal government to wake up and step up, and that's exactly what we are doing under the leadership of President Donald Trump. With this announcement today, we are taking this purpose and our American farmland back. American agriculture is not just about feeding our families, but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland, stealing our research, and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us. Reshoring and nearshoring our food and agriculture supply chain is essential for our nation's security. In coordination with the White House, the Departments of Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security and Justice, as well as state governors, state agriculture commissioners, local, tribal and territorial governments, today we announce the USDA's National Farm Security Action Plan. This plan includes seven key action items, and there's a lot of people here that I want you to hear from, so I'm not going to go one by one, but just very quickly. It's on our website. The press has gotten a preview of it, and we can ask some questions once we finish the main program. But very quickly, and perhaps the most important, the first of the seven, is securing and protecting American farmland ownership. Actively engaging at every level of government to take swift legislative and executive action to ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals and other foreign adversaries. Standing on the shoulders of great governors, three of whom are standing behind me, who have already been leading the way on this issue, and at the federal government level, working to do everything within our ability, including presidential authorities, to claw back what has already been purchased by China and other foreign adversaries. Additionally, working with the Secretary of the Treasury along with our Defense Department on memorandums to ensure that moving forward, there is a much more intentional look at who is buying what in this country and from where they are in the world. Also enhancing our agricultural supply chain resilience. Also protecting our U.S. nutrition safety net from fraud and foreign exploitation. Number four, defending agricultural research and innovation. No more sweetheart deals and secret pacts with countries that do not have our best interests in mind. Number five, making sure that America First is in every USDA program from farm loans to food safety. We have already canceled seven active agreements with entities in foreign countries of concern and will continue to cancel additional agreements moving forward. I signed a memo today, today, thank you, which immediately removes 70, 70 citizens from countries of concerns that currently are affiliated with the USDA through contracts or research arrangements. And we are working to issue regulatory action to remove over 550 entities from foreign countries of concern from our preferred catalog. Number six, safeguarding plant and animal health, working to make sure that we know what is coming in and how to control animal diseases. And number seven, protecting critical infrastructure from our farms and our food and our supply chains. Again, along with so many partners across this government here in Washington and across our states. Now, please help me welcome to the podium the amazing Secretary Pete Hegseth. Thank you all. Well, Brooke, thank you so much for your incredible leadership on this issue. It's an honor to be here. It's a very important one. I think we're all here for two basic reasons. One, under President Trump's leadership, we're going to put America first. We have America, American land, American basing, American troops, American citizens. You have a Secretary of Homeland Security who cares about homeland security. You have an... Imagine that. You have an Attorney General that cares about justice. You have a Secretary of Agriculture that cares about our farmland and our farmers. You have governors who've led the way and senators and congressmen who now have reinforcements from an America first movement. It's about America first, but it's also just the application of common sense. As someone who's charged with leading the Defense Department, I want to know who owns the land around our bases. And strategic bases. And getting an understanding of why foreign entities, foreign companies, foreign individuals might be buying up land around those bases. That's something I should be paying attention to on behalf of the American people, on behalf of my department, and on behalf of the President. It's common sense. And so food security, just like energy resilience, just like where we get our water, that's all national security, especially in a contingency. So we would be asleep at the wheel if we were not fully a party to an effort like this to ensure that our nation had the food supply it needs. But specifically, our troops have what they need on our bases so that in those moments you can rely on us here in the United States to provide that security. So no longer can foreign adversaries assume we're not watching and we're not paying attention and we're not doing something about it because we are. So,Brooke, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Please help me welcome to the podium to speak of the agroterrorism threats our incredible Attorney General, Pam Bondi. Thank you all. And we know Texas is your home state, Secretary Rollins. Our hearts go out to all those in Texas and the families as well as in North Carolina who are also experiencing those horrible floods. We're so happy to be here today to protect our farmers, our ranchers, and our ag community. Under President Trump, we are proudly putting our farmers first again. Thank you to our Congress, our governors, all of the great people who have gathered here today. My job is to make America safe again, which includes protecting our farmers who feed our families. The Department of Justice will use every tool at our disposal to secure, defend, and protect our ag community from threats. Our Environmental and Natural Resources Division has successfully defended the Forest Service as it manages our forest. We're also defending mining critical and strategic minerals, which is very important to our nation's security. We're cracking down on pesticide trafficking, and we are doing this by closing the southern border, working hand in hand with our great Kristi Noem. Where illegal and highly toxic chemicals from Mexico were smuggled into the U.S., and the Department of Justice is prioritizing the arrest of those illegal aliens doing it. Additionally, our National Security Division is actively monitoring foreign threats to American agriculture. Last month in Michigan, this is very frightening. We charged two Chinese nationals for attempting to smuggle potential agroterrorism weapons into the United States. Both of them have ties to the CCP. Just days later, we arrested another Chinese citizen for sending packages of concealed biological materials into the United States. It's going to stop. FBI has opened over 100 bio-smuggling investigations in recent years. We will prosecute you. We will hold you accountable. Thank you to everyone who is here today, especially Secretary Rollins, Secretary Hegseth, all of our good friends governors, my good friends, Governor Huckabee, and we will, all of us, will never back down from supporting our American farmers. God bless you. God bless America. Next, the incredible Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noem, everyone. Well, good morning, and I am so blessed and pleased to be here with Brooke, who is a dear friend of mine, and our hearts and prayers still continue to go out with Texas, and I'll be back down there in a few days to spend more time with them and to help them continue to heal and with recovery efforts. The one thing I wanted to share with all of you today is that long before I had the honor of serving as President Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, I was a farmer. I was a rancher. In fact, I've worked on food policy for over 30 years, and I recognize that food policy is national security policy. A country who cannot feed itself, cannot take care of itself, and cannot provide for itself is not secure, and that we have to be able to feed ourselves to make sure that no other country ever controls us, and I've watched for decades as evil foreign governments, including China, have come into this country and they've stolen our intellectual property. They've manipulated their currency. They've treated us unfairly in trade deals. They've come in and purchased up our processing companies, stolen our genetics. In fact, I've worked in this building off and on on commissions and projects and laws and different statutes to ensure that China did not completely take control of our entire food supply chain, recognizing that the United States of America would be in jeopardy if that ever were to happen. I've watched them come in and establish a presence in stealing our chemicals in providing our fertilizer for us, and so two years ago when I served as governor of South Dakota, we passed a law in our state that said China and six other foreign evil governments would never own our farmland, and I'm very proud to say that in South Dakota, China does not own any of our land, nor will they ever own any of our land. While I served in Congress, I worked hard to put in programs that would help manage risk for farmers. I tell people all the time farmers are the biggest gamblers that I know. They go to a bank oftentimes and they have to borrow money to buy land. Then they go back to the bank and they need machinery to work that land, and so they borrow some more money to do that. Then they have to go back and get an operating note to purchase seed and fertilizer or chemical potentially, and they put it in the dirt and they hope that months later it'll rain, the sun'll shine, and that there'll be something there that they can pick up, that they can sell, and then that the markets that are beyond their control, that there'll be a price there that will help them cash flow so they can go back and do it all over again the next year. They do that so that they can feed this country, so that they can feed this world. In fact, growing up as a little girl and as a daughter of a farmer and a rancher, I always felt like God loved farmers more. I mean, if you look at the Bible, look at Scripture, and you look over and over again, he talks about sowing and reaping and cattle on a thousand hills and your barns to overflowing, and so I feel like there's a special blessing on farmers and the fact that we have a president and that we have a secretary of agriculture that recognizes the importance of food policy and what it means to this country's security is so wonderful. It's such a change from what the previous administration and how they prioritized our farmers and ranchers. So now as a secretary now as a secretary of homeland security, I have responsibilities when it comes to securing our homeland. But many of those responsibilities have to do with securing our critical infrastructure. We have the responsibility for 10 of our 16 critical infrastructures, which means our electrical grid, our water supply chain, how we protect and run this country and what we do to make sure the people here are safe, but not just the people, the products and goods that come in and out of this country. Our customs and border protection units are the ones that all of our goods come into this country and leave this country on, and their investigations and how they inspect our ag products are critically important to make sure that we aren't facing any kind of threats from what kind of products may come into this country or what kind of terrorist acts might happen from goods that other countries may wish to send to us that would harm our food supply. We will continue to make sure that we have the systems in place, the people in place, the experts in place and the policies in place to make sure that this country always feeds itself and that we always have the ability to grow our own food and that we rely on no one else to feed the people of the United States of America because it is a national security issue when a country cannot provide for itself and we will never let any other country control our food supply or control our people because we will always be the great United States of America. Thank you. I was reminded when Christy was Governor Noem and we were at America First Policy, Christy, you and I did an event together on this very issue three years ago and she along with some of the other governors really stepped up. So thank you, Secretary Noem. Next, a long-time friend, a partner from the first Trump administration and someone who has been leading on this for years and years. Please help me welcome White House Counselor Peter Navarro. What a beautiful day to be out here. It's difficult, I think, for a lot of Americans to wrap their head around what we're talking about today. We're such a good and kind nation that has done so much for the rest of the world over so many decades, including fighting two world wars on behalf of the rest of the world. But this is so serious an issue. The Art of War book Sun Tzu, centuries old, says that the acne of warfare is to win without firing a shot. You fast forward to a book that was written by two high-ranking military officials in China called Unrestricted Warfare. And you understand that we are indeed in a new world where kinetic warfare is not the first choice of our rivals anymore. Rather, it is things like sending us seeds or trying to steal our seeds or trying to change the seeds. It is acquiring our supply chain in agriculture. It's setting up spy shops on land next to military bases. Remember when that balloon was just a weather station? We seem so naive about so much of this when in fact we have nations and bad actors trying to do bad things using our supply chains now as weapons. The world changed yet again on April 2nd when the Chinese embargoed critical minerals not just on us but for the rest of the world. The Russians now embargo things like neon and helium and uranium as a tool. So we must be clear-eyed about the threats. And I just have to congratulate Secretary Rollins for taking leadership on an issue which has been troublesome for years. And we have governors here Christy Noem in South Dakota just leadership on that. She was doing that before anybody was paying attention. We're going to hear from Governor Huckabee. Arkansas has led the way on this issue at the state level even as the federal government has been silent about it up to this point. The last thing is big things like Smithfield Foods. I don't know if you know this but this one really troubled me when it happened. But the Chinese bought Smithfield Foods and basically control about an eighth of the world's pork supply now. And we worry. We've had food inflation. We worry when things happen that that can be part of that. And then the other key purchase which we allowed them to do was Syngenta. What is that? It's a seed company. And in a world of ever-changing pests and things like that and climate differences about where water is and things like that seeds really can be the revolution that keeps the world fed. And China now owns a key part of that. So what Secretary Rollins is doing today it's a historic day. She's putting down the marker that the United States is no longer going to tolerate the attacks on our agricultural system not just the land but the supply chain as well. She deserves more than a hand. She deserves a helping hand here. And that's why the other aspects of our government are behind us as well. So I appreciate being here on this absolutely gorgeous day. And again, I commend the leadership of the people behind me. Thank you. Thank you, Peter. Again, no one more of a warrior than he on these issues and many others. So thank you. Next, also from the first Trump administration now the governor of the great state of Arkansas who another leader in this area. Please help me welcome Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Good morning. It is incredible to be here and be joined with people who really understand what it means not just to love our country but to be willing to do things that actually preserve, protect and allow us to pass on what makes our country so great to the next generation. And that's exactly what you see in the collaboration of the people that are gathered behind me. I'm so proud of the fact that Arkansas was the first state in the country to kick a Chinese-owned company off of our farmland and out of our state and we made them pay for it. Very Trump-esque. And in the last couple of months we passed new legislation just this year allowing us to prohibit them from now not only owning farmland in our state but from building or buying land around our military bases and critical infrastructure. It is something that has to happen and something that states have been leading the way on. But unfortunately our states can't do it alone. That's why events like today matter so much. That's why leadership from people like Secretary Rollins matter so much. The fact that we now have a president who understands who our real enemies are and is willing to take them on is making a huge difference not just in our country but around the world. You know, we've talked a lot about today a country's ability to feed itself but that's not the only place and that's not the only role agriculture plays. A country has to be able to feed itself fuel itself and fight for itself to truly be free. And that's why what this group represents is every component of that. And we now have a president who understands it and is willing to do everything within his power to make sure the United States continues to be the greatest country on the face of the planet. And that doesn't happen by accident. That happens because we have great leadership. And I'm proud of the role that Arkansas has been able to play. But I'm more excited about the leadership that we now have in Washington that is going to take this to all 50 states and, frankly, all across the world. Having this group, there are no people I have greater confidence in. Secretary Hegseth leading the greatest military on the face of the planet. And nobody better suited to do so. He's tough, and I'm pretty sure he could take every member of the cabinet in an arm-wrestling competition. But he's not the only tough one up here. There's no chance that China has going up against my friends Pam Bondi, Christy Noem, and Brooke Rollins. They are not only the toughest women in Washington. They're some of the toughest people in all of America. And this group of people under the leadership of President Trump is not only going to protect our great country, but they're going to make sure that we have the ability to pass it on to the next generation behind us. I'm so grateful for their leadership. So thankful I get to be part of an effort that is going to make sure that the freedom of our country is protected and preserved for every single American to enjoy. Thank you for letting us be here. And thank you, Brooke, for putting this amazing event and this great plan together to help our country. Thank you so much. Thank you, Governor Sanders. Also at the front of the battle, Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee. Please help me welcome him. Thank you, Secretary Rollins. Let me just add my words of gratitude to President Trump and to his administration. It's an honor to stand here with these great leaders. I have served as the governor originally in President Trump's first term and then through the Biden administration and now again in the Trump administration. During the years when President Trump was not in office and governors like myself and Governor Sanders and Governor Pillen were working individually to secure our farmland. So in Tennessee, we have passed laws that prohibit ownership that require divestment if found that impose strict penalties for those foreign adversaries who take our property. We have also passed the Farmland Conservation Act in order to make it easier for the next generation of farmers to live and operate in our state. But that work was really hard in the previous Biden administration because we didn't have a partner who understood the threats and the challenges that we understand in Tennessee. So I'm so grateful for President Trump's leadership here especially for Secretary Rollins' leadership who she and I connected early on. My family is a multi-generational farming family as well. And I understand that when my grandfather was farming in Tennessee, the issues that we're talking about today didn't exist. But for my grandchildren who live on our family farm in Tennessee today, we understand that our farmland is not just dirt. It is our national security. It is our economic future. It is our children's heritage. And it is under threat. And the leaders here recognize that. We've taken steps at the state level, but now, refreshingly, we have an administration and multiple cabinets who are coming together collaboratively with governors across the states making sure that America's future is preserved for the next generations. Thank you. -