During an appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures on Sunday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made a bizarre claim about the recent spike in beef prices in the United States.
Bessent was asked about a comment made by the CEO of Omaha Steaks, who claimed Americans are heading for $10-a-pound ground beef.
“The beef market is a very specialized market,” Bessent began. “It goes in long cycles. And this is the perfect storm, again, something we inherited.”
Bessent went on to make the claim, without evidence, that migrants were bringing diseased cattle with them across the border, and that was somehow contributing to the rising cost of beef.
“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,” Bessent said.
“So part of the problem is we’ve had to shut down, to close, to shutter, etc., 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,” he continued.
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