A Flesh Eating Fly Is Back at the Texas Border. Republicans Cut the Program That Stopped It
June 4, 2026
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as posted by the channelSeventy years ago, a federally funded program wiped the flesh-eating New World screwworm out of the United States and kept it out for decades. The Trump administration cut that program in the name of efficiency — and now the screwworm is back, confirmed within one mile of the Texas border, at a time when American cattle herds are already at record lows.
Texas State Representative Don McLaughlin is now demanding to know why the federal response has been so slow: "For more than a year, I have joined Texas ranchers in sounding the alarm while federal regulators have moved at a snail's pace.
The threat is no longer hundreds of miles away. It is at our doorstep." The belated answer: up to $750 million for a new South Texas facility capable of producing 300 million sterile flies a week, plus $100 million for new research, traps, and treatments — money spent rebuilding the exact capability that was just dismantled. You wanted a smaller government. Congratulations. It's smaller
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