“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.