Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the nation’s food supply was a national security issue on par with energy and water supplies.

Framing food as a matter of national security, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders joined Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and others in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to announce a new plan — part of a broader geopolitical Trump-era push.

In what it calls a comprehensive action plan for agriculture security, USDA unveiled seven critical areas the Trump administration will address, and securing and protecting U.S. farmland from being owned by China topped that list.