But the funny thing is that if you want to fix prices, this is not the best way to do it, is it? No, that's not true. Bessent, who has a reputation as one of the more rational members of the Trump administration, gave such a pathetic performance on a Sunday talk show where he was asked about beef prices that had skyrocketed and blamed it on the New World worm. He said migrants are crossing the border and bringing with them a worm from the New World that is killing our livestock.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Try to get a mental picture of it. New World worm – every time in a blue moon a person gets sick with it. I think we had our first case of human infection in August last year; this was the first case observed in 50 years. It is a disease transmitted from cattle to cattle. He seems to mean that the migrants are making their way across the Rio Grande with the cattle, where they would probably not be seen, right? This is absurd.
Sargent: This really occurs to me. If they're really going to say that, then he's essentially saying that our border is so porous that you can just walk in with a herd of cattle and not be seen. This doesn't seem like a good argument to me. Well, let's listen a little more to some of these bad arguments. Now the administration says everything is fine. Prices are falling everywhere. Take it from Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. She acknowledges that beef prices are a problem, but then says this.
