Subject: Oh, that's why beef is so expensive
Bessent explains. It's the illegals. Those brown people are bringing their cattle into Shinyland, and infecting our cattle with screw worm.

Video of him saying that at the link.

And there’s also, 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, you know, as these migrants brought some of their cattle with them. So part of the problem is we’ve had to shut the border to Mexican beef because of this disease called the screw worm. So we’re not going to let that get into our supply chain. And, again, I don’t want to focus on one product. It’s a very important product. And if we are laser-focused on this product

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Does Bessent always talk so haltingly, or only when he is trying to spout Trumpian talking points?

Steve