Brooke Rollins

We know this development is a serious threat, but it did not catch us off guard.

The last USDA had an equivalent of 10 full-time employees working on the New World Screwworm.

Before it was even confirmed, we had over 110 full-time employees.

full-time staff in preparation.

This does not affect the food supply system.

This is not a virus.

It is not a disease.

It is a pest.

And so we obviously are treating it as such.

But the food supply system remains intact and couldn't be safer.

Chair Powell opened the door to this first interest rate cut.

We have boots on the ground.

I'm headed there again for the fifth or sixth time today.

And we'll be able to beat this back, but we're going to do everything we can, investing over a billion dollars to push this pest back into Mexico, then to eradicate as we did about 50 years ago.

I think if you think about what is happening at SpaceX, it would be hard for me to imagine this happening if not for the fact that Elon Musk is the founder and chairperson of this company.

And the reason for that is because what Elon is able to do is he's able to get investors to buy into a vision of the future that doesn't exist today, that most other entrepreneurs, most other founders, most other CEOs would not get the grace for.

Chair Powell opened the door to this first interest rate cut.

Chair Powell opened the door to this first interest rate cut.

Chair Powell opened the door to this first interest rate cut.

We have boots on the ground.