Every county. Every year.

Joined Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg at the "Boeing Backs America" event announcing $1 billion in Wichita investment over three years — facilities, training, production capacity. Includes a WSU Tech workforce training center in South Wichita feeding the supply chain.

Joined USDA Rural Development State Director Gimmie Jo Jansonius and Riley County Commissioner Kathryn Focke to mark the start of the $11M Riley County Wastewater System Improvement Project — $492K USDA grant + $618K loan funding 12,000 linear feet of new lines, 67 septic-tank demolitions, a lift station, and an emergency generator.

Fort Scott Community College CDL programs; Freeman Hospital ED + acute-care expansion in Bourbon County; Pittsburg's 150th-anniversary celebration; Parsons early-learning center on childcare tax credits; Monarch Cement in Humboldt; Chanute HS Animal Science Learning Center; Cobalt Boats facility.

With Sen. Ricketts (R-NE), unveiled the Senate resolution naming May 2026 National Beef Month. Cited Kansas's 5.95 million head of cattle, $11.7 billion economic impact, and 38,000+ jobs in the industry. Highlighted the DIRECT Act (S. 3099) and the Bona Fide Beef Branding Act.

Barton Community College Ag/Transport Complex (CDL training + Case New Holland diagnostics partnership); Moly Manufacturing in Great Bend (hydraulic livestock-handling equipment); Manhattan Chipotle's 4,000th-store opening; NFIB Small Business Tax Roundtable in Manhattan.

Lincoln County Hospital tour on the Rural Health Transformation Fund; Housing Opportunities Inc.'s 24-unit senior development in Russell (21st Century ROAD Act); Developmental Services of NWKS covering 18 counties; Cedar Bluff Reservoir & Dam on drought-driven water releases to Hays and Russell; Fort Hays / NW Tech welding center; Western Plains Energy on E15 and the Renewable Volume Obligation.

Elk County Farm Bureau legislative coffee; Chautauqua Farm Bureau on Food for Peace, 45Z, and year-round E15; Pittsburg State leadership meeting on the 2027 advanced-manufacturing facility; Cherokee County Farm Bureau + law-enforcement recognition; Crawford County conservation district annual meeting + FFA Week kickoff in Girard. End of the 2,788-mile statewide tour.

BTI Corp in Greensburg on EPA right-to-repair; Main Street Pharmacy in Coldwater on PBM reform and TrumpRx; Medicine Lodge Meat Co. on the DIRECT Act; Blanchat wildland-fire-truck manufacturing in Anthony; GKN Aerospace in Wellington; Western Industries Plastics in Winfield. Also addressed the ongoing SW Kansas wildfire response.

Liberal's 77th International Pancake Day race; Cimarron National Grassland (108,175 acres) on wildfire and conservation policy; Flora Foods $90M expansion in Hugoton; Stanton County GMD 3 Ogallala-conservation meeting; Haskell County sheriff on 287(g) participation; Compass Behavioral Health in Cimarron on farmer mental health; emergency water delivery to Ashland wildfire responders.

Head Start visit in Cheyenne County; behavioral-health nonprofit in Thomas County; Larson Angus Ranch in Wallace County on H-2A and cattle markets; independent pharmacy in Greeley County on PBM reform; Wichita County Hospital on Critical Access protections; Kearny County airport on the $11.5M runway / FAA grants.

Curb Roller factory tour in Hiawatha; Nemaha Valley Community Hospital on the Rural Health Transformation Fund; Marshall County Extension free senior tax-prep program; Midwest Products ready-mix in Washington; Bestifor Farms in Republic County on E15, irrigation, and regenerative agriculture.

C.E. Machine Co. on aerospace precision machining; Midwest Drywall, a 100% employee-owned ESOP; MK Wound Healing & Limb Preservation Clinic. The three-stop loop tied small-manufacturer tax policy and rural healthcare access into a single afternoon.

Cut the ribbon at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry's new $80M PVC manufacturing facility in Maize.

Reno County Farm Bureau annual meeting; Kansas Hospital Association roundtable on the $50B Rural Health Transformation Fund; Grasshopper Mower factory in Moundridge; Hutchinson Community College.

Surprise stop touring three Salina housing projects — South View Estates, Aero Plains, and Magnolia Village. Tied regulatory delays and electrical transformer shortages to slowed rural-workforce housing production across central Kansas.

Toured GE Aerospace's Winfield engine-repair plant (750+ employees), discussing the company's $1B five-year global investment, $65M of which is U.S. facilities and partnerships with Kansas technical colleges. Also toured Thyssenkrupp Aerospace in Park City (~349 Kansas employees), focused on Boeing supply-chain management and international materials logistics.