Scott Bessent stirred a row after claiming that soaring beef prices in US are not linked to economic policies but to an alleged “invasion of cows” across the southern US border. The Treasury Secretary laid out his theory during a Sunday interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News. Bartiromo asked about the rising cost of meat and wanted Bessent’s perspective on the issue. He argued that the beef industry is in a “perfect storm” inherited from the former President Joe Biden administration. But he then blamed migrants from Latin America, saying, “Because of the mass immigration, a disease that we’d been rid of in North America made its way up through South America as these migrants brought some of their cattle with them. We’re not gonna let that get into our supply chain.” Earlier this

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