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Chris Wright: “Without American farmland, we're not America.”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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U.S. Secretary of Energy talks AI, data centers

Published | Video Starts at 04:56

Is there anything that could be in place to stop that from happening? When legislators and farmers have made the decision to try to preserve farmland. Yeah. Which is, look, Without American farmland, we're not America. So I love our farmers. They're critical to our national security and to our economy. So we do want to preserve as much farmland as we can. (04:56–05:00)

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Asserts the critical importance of American farmland to national identity and security.

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