00:00Brooke? Sir, I dropped my second son off of college last week. And I wasn't planning to say this, but just listening to everybody, I want to put a little bit of a personal touch on this work. He started his freshman year yesterday at Texas A&M, for all my SEC friends in the room. Thank you for saving college football, by the way. We're all very grateful.
00:23The country just feels different. It just feels different. There's such an optimism and a love. There's a faith movement going through, especially with our younger Americans. And for those of us with kids in college, I know we feel it. And I experienced it firsthand last week, moving him and my other older son in as well.
00:47As we move toward Labor Day, you have made a lot of dreams come true for a lot of people. But one of my longtime dreams was for the right to recapture Labor Day. And I've been talking about this for almost 20 years and writing about it, that why are we ceding the day that we are celebrating the American worker to the Democrats?
01:08Because this is our day, perhaps of any day of the entire year, this is our day. America was founded and fought for by fishermen and farmers and workmen and et cetera.
01:23The Genesis, the first book of the Bible, talks about the righteousness of work and the art of creation.
01:30And so to be part of this effort to represent the farmers, the ranchers, the agriculture industry at this moment in time, which I do believe we're in a revolution.
01:421776 was the first one. 1863 or so with Abraham Lincoln was the second. This is the third with Donald Trump leading the way. And we are saving America.
01:53And the idea that we are putting the worker, the very central component of the American dream at the center of it is the reason that it is so.
02:03So at USDA, it continues to be my greatest honor to fight for the original American worker, whom I think the farmer is and what they represent.
02:13And as we are building new systems and new structures, as we have this year going to have the best harvest on record for our row croppers and others, what this team has done and is doing to open up those markets to ensure that these farmers can continue to return prosperity to rural America.
02:32I'll finish with this. This morning, we had a working group with six of our cabinet members, Bobby Kennedy, representing health care, Linda McMahon, education, Lee Zeldin, deregulation, Kelly Loeffler, small business, Lori Chavez,
02:45to Rimmer labor and Scotty Turner housing and how you leading the way in your vision, how that will return the golden age to rural America, to the very fabric of our country.
02:58And whether it's better hospitals, better education, more opportunity, less government, better and bigger small businesses, better opportunities for our workers and better housing.
03:08And of course, the agriculture piece of that through the big, beautiful bill, the bill, what it did, the greatest investment in rural America in history.
03:17And now the opportunity to effectuate that is, again, a game changer, a country saver and what a joy to be able to do it under your leadership.
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