But if you, if it's perfunctory support-

Yeah.

When I did those town halls around the state and people started asking if I would run, um, my husband and I had talked about it for like five months.

You know? It was like that constant like things come up, and you're like, "Well, if I ran, you know, here's what it would look like." And when I finally decided to run, it was like a- an evening and we're having a conversation.

I looked at him, I said, "I think I'm running for office," and- He looked at me, he goes, "I knew that about two months ago." [laughs]

... find co- common ground, you know, fi- you're gonna have to probably compromise on both of those areas I would think, but-

There's also, um, some loopholes, corporate loopholes, where you do have some corporations that aren't paying in, um, to the payroll taxes that, that probably they should be.

And some of it has to do with changes that have happened because of the gig economy.

Would you like to talk about any of those?

Yeah, let's dig into what's happening with our cattle ranchers and producers and beef prices.

Of course, we saw this executive order where 300,000 metric tons of beef is going to be brought into America.

I don't think we've ever had clarification on exactly where all of this is coming from.

And in truth, those 300,000 metric tons of beef are not going to help the consumer.

The reason being that's really about 2% to 3% of actual ground beef that will be sold.

And what President Trump has said is this is about the consumer bringing those beef prices down.

What could or should the federal government do to manage its response to these disasters and the cost of that response as we move through this new era?

Compare that for me.

The hardest thing for folks in agriculture right now, and the thing I hear time and again is, it is so hard to know what the future looks like.

It is so hard to plan.

Now, there's always some uncertainty we deal with because weather, drought, those sorts of things.

But now we're throwing on top of that, not knowing where trade is going to head.

And that is, I mean, at any point in time, an announcement can come out of Washington, D.C. drastically reduces what they are going to get for their cattle or their crop.

And diesel prices are one of the things that everyone is upset about.

Because I had all the respect in the world for Senator Daschle, Senator Johnson, Congresswoman Herseth, and just want to know where you align.

And so I can understand from you why they'd be so nervous.

Yeah, they really need our farmers and our ranchers to have a strong economy.

And even maybe with these bailout dollars that come in, those producers are looking at the fact that they just had historically expensive crops to get in the ground, right? And the fact that this is coming in, but how much is it really going to impact them? when they don't know yet at the end of the season what their yields are going to look like and what they're going to get back.

Because I've got three different farmers now that I've talked to that chose not to do fertilizer on their soybeans because of the high rate of fertilizer costs.

So they're going to have a lower yield at the end of the season.

We've still got spotty areas of drought and even some areas with too much water.

So there's so much uncertainty that...

services they need.

What does that look like to you, a better government?

Yeah.

So there are a lot of areas of the federal government that are not modernized in the way that we still have a lot of things, including, if you think of Farm Service Agency, uh, USDA Rural Development, people are still filling out paper applications, bringing them in.

An employee of the federal government is entering into one system the information, and then it's being passed on to somebody else to enter somewhere else, 'cause the systems don't talk to each other.

They're old and antiquated.

And what happened over time is the government often says, "Here is money for a program.

You need to deliver it." But they don't provide any money to actually upgrading our systems.

You've talked about healthcare being a human right.Um, what does that mean in actual policy for how you implement that belief that it's a human right into action as a member of Congress when it comes to healthcare in rural parts of, of South Dakota?