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Elissa Slotkin: “We should always be able to feed ourselves by ourselves.”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Slotkin Pushes Bill Allowing Vetting Of Farmland Sales By Intelligence Services

Published | Video Starts at 00:20

I'm a former CIA officer. There are two of us on this committee. And that's my entire sort of lens. With which I look through this. We should always be able to feed ourselves by ourselves. And you're right. During COVID you know, my family's in the hot dog business, and during COVID we were concerned with the meat processing plants going down with COVID that … (00:20–00:24)

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Asserts that the U.S. should be self-sufficient in food production.

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