Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
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Mrs. CAMMACK. Mr. Chair, I rise today after years of fighting for this to say, yes, we are finally getting the farm bill done.
The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 is not just a farm bill. It is a lifeline. For the farmers and ranchers in Florida, the men and women who wake up before the Sun, who work through the hurricanes, the freezes, and the disease outbreaks, who have been delivering for this country while Washington didn't deliver for them, this moment is long overdue.
Now, let me be direct about something. Our farmers did not create the chaos of rising input costs. They did not ask for the hurricanes that wiped out their groves and flooded their fields. They did not cause the freezes that killed their crops or the citrus greening that has devastated an entire industry. They absorbed it all, quietly and stubbornly, because that is what our producers do. For too long, Washington's response has been paperwork delays and disaster programs that did not meet the moment, did not reflect reality.
Mr. Chair, we all know that food security is national security. Every acre that is abandoned, every grove that is not replanted, every farmer who walks away, that is a strategic loss. Our adversaries understand this, even when people in this very Chamber choose to forget it. A nation that cannot feed itself is a nation that is not secure and a nation that can be controlled from abroad. Americans should never have to rely on foreign food.
Let us not forget that the first line of defense in American health is not a hospital, but a farm. You cannot feed a healthy Nation on substances manufactured in a lab. You need farmers. You need growers. You need ranchers. You need the men and women of this country who are producing real food for real families. That is MAHA. That is MAHA. You cannot fix the health of this Nation if you don't pass the farm bill.
On behalf of the 44,000 family farms that call Florida home and the nearly 2 million family farms across this country, I strongly urge my colleagues to support this farm bill. They are all counting on you.
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