Livid Backlash As MAGA Officials Blame Biden For Screwworm: 'Did He Build A Time Machine?'

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Source: crooksandliars.com



Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) sparked widespread mockery Monday after both appeared on Newsmax to blame former President Joe Biden for the screwworm emergency now threatening Texas cattle — despite the Trump administration's own cuts to the very monitoring programs designed to stop the parasite.






By David Edwards — June 9, 2026

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) sparked widespread mockery Monday after both appeared on Newsmax to blame former President Joe Biden for the screwworm emergency now threatening Texas cattle — despite the Trump administration's own cuts to the very monitoring programs designed to stop the parasite.

Rollins, who oversees the federal response to the first confirmed U.S. screwworm infestation in decades, pointed the finger squarely at her predecessor. "I do think it's important to note that under the last administration, with the massive movement under the open borders policy, the cartels, et cetera, border security — that's when it began to make its way back up toward America," she said, adding that when she took office in February 2025, "obviously not much had been done to push back."

Marshall, a Kansas Republican who sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee, went further. "This is another thing we can thank Joe Biden for," he said, claiming migrants who crossed the southern border "brought this screwworm with them." ..............

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There's also a timeline problem with the blame on Biden. The Biden administration closed ports of entry to cattle from Mexico in November 2024. It was the Trump administration that reopened them in February 2025 — only to shut them down again in May 2025. ..................





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Ted Lieu @tedlieu
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Dear @SecRollins
: You lie. The average life cycle of a Screwworm ranges from 14 to 54 days depending on temperature and humidity.

The trump Administration has been in office over 500 days.

If you can’t accept responsibility, or even apologize for messing up, you need to resign.

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[Ray Bruns]

1. Fox Noise is temporarily off the air

[Bayard]

2. Flies can't fly across the border,

But people can carry them across. Got it.

[SergeStorms]

3. SOP from the Trump administration.

If something goes wrong: BLAME IT ON BIDEN. It's their catchphrase.

[MadameButterfly]

4. i wonder if there is also a global warming component to all this

There are a lot of different kinds of pests making their way north as seasons get warmer.

[wolfie001]

8. I scanned some publications addressing this very topic. For years

Tropical diseases inching forward every year. The Nile virus here in Maryland. Sorry about the AI but it's just so quick and it's spot on.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Those two just won the "How stupid can you get?" challenge.

[wolfie001]

6. tRUMP voters are stupid racists, so they'll get traction with these lies

Meanwhile, their community's health and their own teeth will continue to deteriorate accordingly.

[republianmushroom]

7. Just like little kids, he did it, he did it, not me , not me.

[ChicagoTeamster]

9. It's all messaging for the base. Trump officials know they're lying and MAGA lives for the smears

Trump doesn't care about the truth .It's all messaging to rile up the base. Idiots who don't even live in Texas will eat this shit up and be talking it up at the honkey tonk grinning with their three remaining front teeth.

Straight out of the Nazi handbook. Keep the people angry with lies. Who needs the truth? That's the whole reason Trump tried to use the interview with MTP to spout the non stop election fraud lies. And he stormed off when she questioned him.

MAGA want dear leader's lies to be accepted by everyone and hate anyone who questions the lies because MAGA questions nothing. He stormed off because a woman reporter wouldn't let him lie unquestioned and unchecked.

He doesn't like women reporters.