Anyone that actually eats knows just how expensive beef prices have become….and now a Donny moron has the answer that we all have been waiting on….
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent didn’t argue that beef prices are rising — but he pointed to an unlikely culprit.
According to the Trump administration, the increase isn’t due to tariffs or inflation. Instead, Bessent blamed migrants for driving up costs.
“We are headed for what I’m calling … the $10-a-pound reality. By [the] third quarter of ’26, families are gonna see $10 a pound [for] ground beef in the grocery store. So we’re in for a bit of a haul here,” Rempe recently warned on Mornings with Maria.
According to Bessent, “The beef market is a very specialized market. It goes in long cycles. And this is the perfect storm, again, something we inherited.”
In an unexpected twist, Bessent went on to say that migrants contributed to the increase in beef prices by bringing diseased cattle from South America into North America.
“Because of the mass immigration, a disease that had been rid of in North America made its way up through South America. These migrants brought some of their cattle with them,” the treasury secretary alleged.
https://knewz.com/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-blames-rising-beef-prices-migrants-screwworms/
Let me see if I have this right…..illegal immigrants bring their pet cows with them when they cross the border illegally, right?
How did those cows make it over the wall?
At what point do you people that voted for these clowns see your mistake?
Everyday there is something new from these morons…..when will enough be enough?
Does their hatred of people of color know no bounds?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
The claim that immigrants are bringing diseased cattle across the border is a specific theory put forward by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, but it is not supported by credible evidence from agricultural or border experts.
Here is a breakdown of the key facts:
The Claim: Secretary Bessent suggested that “mass immigration” has allowed a disease, specifically implying the New World Screwworm (NWS), to enter the U.S. because migrants “brought some of their cattle with them.”
The Disease: The New World Screwworm is a real and dangerous flesh-eating parasite that has re-emerged in Mexico and has been spreading northward. This outbreak is a serious concern for the U.S. cattle industry.
The Official U.S. Response: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has repeatedly suspended all live cattle imports through official ports of entry along the southern border due to the confirmed spread of the New World Screwworm in Mexico. This action is taken to protect U.S. livestock.
Lack of Evidence for Immigrant-Transported Cattle: Experts and officials have widely disputed the specific connection between migrants and the disease.
There is no credible evidence that migrants are transporting livestock on a scale that could affect the U.S. beef supply or disease spread. Migrants typically travel light, and carrying livestock like cattle is highly unlikely.
The USDA’s focus is on stopping the disease via commercial livestock imports and through illegal cattle smuggling operations that sometimes occur from Central America into Mexico.
The U.S. has not detected any cases of the New World Screwworm in its monitoring programs along the border so far.
In summary, a disease threat to cattle (New World Screwworm) is real and is why the U.S. has halted commercial cattle imports from Mexico. However, the claim that migrants are personally bringing diseased cattle with them is a political narrative and is not a verified finding by agricultural or border authorities.
Is this John? chuq
The claim that immigrants are bringing diseased cattle across the border is a specific theory put forward by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, but it is not supported by credible evidence from agricultural or border experts.
Here is a breakdown of the key facts:
The Claim: Secretary Bessent suggested that “mass immigration” has allowed a disease, specifically implying the New World Screwworm (NWS), to enter the U.S. because migrants “brought some of their cattle with them.”
The Disease: The New World Screwworm is a real and dangerous flesh-eating parasite that has re-emerged in Mexico and has been spreading northward. This outbreak is a serious concern for the U.S. cattle industry.
The Official U.S. Response: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has repeatedly suspended all live cattle imports through official ports of entry along the southern border due to the confirmed spread of the New World Screwworm in Mexico. This action is taken to protect U.S. livestock.
Lack of Evidence for Immigrant-Transported Cattle: Experts and officials have widely disputed the specific connection between migrants and the disease.
There is no credible evidence that migrants are transporting livestock on a scale that could affect the U.S. beef supply or disease spread. Migrants typically travel light, and carrying livestock like cattle is highly unlikely.
The USDA’s focus is on stopping the disease via commercial livestock imports and through illegal cattle smuggling operations that sometimes occur from Central America into Mexico.
The U.S. has not detected any cases of the New World Screwworm in its monitoring programs along the border so far.
In summary, a disease threat to cattle (New World Screwworm) is real and is why the U.S. has halted commercial cattle imports from Mexico. However, the claim that migrants are personally bringing diseased cattle with them is a political narrative and is not a verified finding by agricultural or border authorities.
John the screwworm is not the point…..the total stupidity of the lie about bringing their cows with them is….chuq
In this administration, whatever tall tale you can devise will become the answer for any and/or all of the problems of the world … but especially for those of the U.S.
But immigrants with cows…LOL chuq
Economic migrants bringing their own cows? This is just stand-up comedy for the brainless MAGA fools ready to believe such lies.
Best wishes, Pete.
These idiots are at best idiots.
Pete I saw this article and wanted to get your thoughts….
https://www.farandwide.com/s/this-european-country-has-been-ranked-the-second-most-miserable-country-in-the-world/
How accurate is it? chuq
I would say it was about right, chuq. People are disillusioned with politics, high prices are forcing households to choose between paying utility bills or taking holidays and missing celebrations like weddings. The housing rental market is now so expensive that we have people in their 40s still living with their parents. People under 40 have little or no hope of buying their own house due to mortgage rate increases, and the job market is unstable, with many companies only paying minimum wage. The suicide rate is also increasing for people under the age of 24. Ironically, those of us in our late 60s and 70s are mostly better off than the average younger person. We also lived in happier and more stable times.
Pete I appreciate your thoughts….thanx chuq
When I first saw this little tidbit I was absolutely positive it was something coming from The Onion or another satire site. You’d think that with the level of crazy that has come out of this administration I’d know better by now, wouldn’t you? It wasn’t satire. This — this idiot actually said that. Ye gods, where do they come up with this? This is like those damned fools who were running around a while ago claiming that public schools were allowing children to “identify” as animals and putting litter boxes in classrooms.
I did a bit of digging using the resources I have access to and the number of illegal immigrants who have been seen and/or captured bringing cows or any other farm animals into the country is exactly zero. None. Zilch. Zip. We do have people trying to smuggle cattle into the country, but they have nothing to do with illegal immigrants. They are typically US citizens who are outright crooks trying to smuggle animals into the US markets that they buy for next to nothing and which would be rejected at the border or outright condemned by inspectors. It has nothing at all to do with illegal immigration.
And what exactly is this “disease” he’s talking about? Hey, I’m a farmer. Or was. A lot of my friends are farmers,. in both the dairy industry and in cattle ranching. I still read the agricultural news and get all of the alerts and other stuff from USDA and other sources. If there was some kind of cattle disease that had been brought into the US by cattle smuggled in from South America we’d know about it. There would be alerts going out all over the country from USDA and other sources.
Is he perhaps talking about the screwworm which has been in the news recently? There currently is no infestation of screwworm, in the US, though. There was one case in Maryland this year was actually a human infection, not related to cattle at all. There were some cases in Florida in 2016 which were caused by the flys being blown into the country by hurricanes from the Caribbean. There have been a few cases in Texas but those were from the movement of wildlife or ferrel cattle across the border, not from human smuggling. We are very, very worried about it, yes. But at the moment it isn’t a problem in the US and it certainly has had absolutely no effect at all on the beef market.
This is one of those cases where these utterly incompetent, mentally challenged fools are grasping at anything they can to try to blame their own failures on anything they can except admitting the fact they have no idea what the hell they’re doing.
GF that is the key to this admin…not a clue what they do……chuq