‘Can’t Be Serious’: Trump Official Roasted for Bizarre Take That Migrants Bringing Cattle With Them Are to Blame for Higher Beef Prices

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Nov 16th, 2025, 3:55 pm

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made a bizarre claim on with Maria Bartiromo that proved to be a head-scratcher for some on social media.

Bartiromo asked Bessent about a comment made by the CEO of Omaha Steaks who claimed Americans are heading for $10-a-pound ground beef.

“Well, Maria, 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 strange claim that migrants have been bringing diseased cattle with them across the border.

And there’s also, because of the mass immigra

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