“It appears that stopping a flesh eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) wrote on X.

Screwworms are back thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump—and beef may get a lot more expensive.

DOGE cut funding for the New World screwworm monitoring program and then reportedly ignored ranchers warning the parasite was working its way to the U.S.

“It appears that stopping a flesh eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) wrote on X.

The return of the screwworm parasite to the U.S. has some politicians trying to figure out who to blame