United States Secretary of Agriculture

letting more borrowers use lower cost alternatives to title insurance and reducing refinance closing costs.

Lower USDA and VA loan rates, the Secretaries of Agriculture and Veteran Affairs must reduce interest rates on the single-family home loans made directly by their departments.

No target rates were given.

And finally, the order establishes a task force on manufactured housing innovation to improve quality and lower the cost of factory-built homes for eligible housing programs.

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Yeah, and that is what I alluded to in my letter that I had sent to the Secretary of Ag was to see where things were going wrong.

How can...

this amount of money disappear fraudulently without there being alarms being set off.

God.

The Secretary of Agriculture's name is Angie Rollins, who's not vaccinating chickens because she's afraid of it.

And so now they're all going to get the bird flu.

But more importantly, he on an interview said, and then this woman running for Senate, I think in Mississippi also said it.

I'll give you my perspective on it real quick though.

I spent years working with the United States Secretary of Agriculture.

So I literally worked under Bush, and he, like...

And, like, he zooms out to a level I never even thought of.

It was awesome.

Secretary Brooke Rollins, she's the Secretary of Ag, she kind of started it and made it happen.

Um, we got to have lunch with her, and she was the biggest Cassie Maury fan.

Mm.

You know, with that executive order, I got to be careful how I say this.

So I've been a big part of getting information and dealing with this with the Secretary of Ag.

And if you noticed in the executive order signing, and if you know people in D.C., there was not one person from the interior in there.

in that whole executive order signing.

And then, and again, that's, uh, when watching that documentary, that was one thing that obviously I made note of.

I was like, wow, this is substantial.

I said that, I don't know if you saw the MOU signing that they did on the secretary of ag and secretary of interior did on, on getting grazing back out on public lands that have been systematically taken away.

Thank you, American Prairie and organizations like that.

Through the Foreign Service, it helps the Justice and Treasury Departments handle immigration, narcotics, and quarantine problems.

And the Secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce look to the Secretary of State to help keep their fingers on the pulse of foreign markets so they can keep the business firms and farmers of America informed on matters of import and export.

I guess the only connection between these facts and the courtship of Miles Standish is that, like John Alden, our State Department speaks for itself.

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Yet, if I figure all my costs, my milk check doesn't even generate enough money for me to break even." The Midwest Dairyman said, "I heard nothing that makes me ma- think the milk check will be any higher.

At least a sitting Secretary of Ag came to expo.

That has not happened very often." Observer said, "I did not hear, nor did I expect to hear anything of substance.

What I heard was the government is crossing our fingers and hoping everything works out.

Maybe we should be glad the Secretary of Ag came to World Dairy Expo, but the whole presentation appeared to me to be little more than a photo opportunity." And Ray Adams said, "She is much better than the previous Secretary Vilsack, who was a train wreck, promoting corporate dairies as the left has always done.

Rollins is much better from the small dairymen operation." And that is your Friday comment feature.

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