Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.
DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.
Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.
Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."
The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.
Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.
The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.
Until it didn't.
I feel strongly about this: journalists have an ethical responsibility to call these election lies what they are. We just stop hiding behind the euphemistic “without proof.” Or democracy is fragile and under assault. Patrician journalistic niceties serve no one is a moment of crisis, not even journalism. We are called to reveal and convey truth. It starts with every interaction. It starts in the moment. It starts to their faces. It feels good to be free to do what I think is right.
@franchise_wise@ThomBrady5 Lies and a visceral inability to search for factual information.
I can see why you are maga and like that orange POS we have to call president.
@ThisGuyHookah@RepMcGarvey You should stop projecting your insecurities onto others. If you’re not smart, look for education opportunities.
Also, small businesses employ half of working people and account for 65% of new jobs, and those people pay more taxes than billionaires. So, again, educate yourself.
@ManyJens@JamesTKirkCam@wine_x13 I‘d say no since killing a sentient person is defined in our laws as murder. Which is why having an abortion would be an option.
I don’t get why anti choicers like you want to force children to be born into homes that don’t want them or can’t afford them.
@rcfsoh@wine_x13 Yeah, and if you are, you should be on the side of people telling you they CANNOT raise a child with disabilities.
why would you want any kid, especially one with challenges, to be born to people who don’t want or can’t afford them?
@ThisGuyHookah@RepMcGarvey Clutching your pearls already?
Sure snowflake, go on with your ignorance then, I‘m sure all that hate is aging you more than you think.
@ThisGuyHookah@RepMcGarvey btw, asylum seekers get a very small amount of cash for like three months because those people usually get here with nothing as they are literally escaping horror.
instead of focusing on poor people, maybe focus on the fact that billionaires pay less taxes than all of us
@JamesTKirkCam@wine_x13 If you saw it from the perspective of wanting to save the child not just the social challenges but the crazy struggles of being raised by people who can’t afford or don’t want to afford them, then you’d understand.
I’d definitely choose abortion too.
@wine_x13 I would too. I have family members with Down syndrome and I know the human, financial and overall life resources it takes to properly care for someone with profound disabilities.
@Capt404F@wine_x13 Religion is just a way for poor peo0e to hold on to hope of a better life than their they have, while church sociopaths (I mean ministers) take the little they have to enrich themselves.
As someone who grew up in a very religious family, FUCK religion.
@Chopper53053600@SpeakerWelchIL@MeetThePress@kwelkernbc He’s talking about the fact that that orange POS’s favorite thing to do is call black women who are journalists dumb and stupid when they question all the incredibly bad decisions he makes daily.
You refuse to acknowledge it, but that is racist and misogynist.
"Pull up my piece... I can't wait... Patrick, will you give me permission to read from your screen... this is a great moment for me, taking over your show... your viewers are getting some good facts today..."
Great moment on the @PBDsPodcast when I got to take over the show, read out facts and figures my own article, and prove that Donald Trump won by a very narrow margin in 2024 and not by a landslide, as he so often and falsely claims.
Receipts:
@ThisGuyHookah@RepMcGarvey So you deliberately skipped over the part where this is about resuming the LEGAL immigration processes in place that the Trump administration is refusing to abide by.
Trump is literally the one breaking the law and you can’t help but continue to kiss his felonious ass.