Cue up the "Looney Tunes" theme song, Scott Bessent

 

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Headline:  Washington Examiner, 11/16/2025

Pitiful Emily Hallas reports with a straight face:

Over the weekend, Bessent argued South American migrants who made their way to the U.S. under the Biden administration bore some responsibility for the screwworm outbreaks. Migrants brought infected cattle with them on the journey, the treasury secretary said, carrying the flesh-eating parasite to North America, and destabilizing the beef market, a critical U.S. import from Mexico.  

 “Because of the mass immigration, a disease that had been we’ve been rid of in North America made its way up through South America as these migrants — they brought some of their cattle with them,” Bessent said during the Fox News Show Sunday Morning Futures.