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Secretary Rollins Hosts a Press Conference in Texas with Updates on the New World Screwworm, Jun. 8, 2026

June 8, 2026 · USDA · 1:15:35

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What happened

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins hosted a standing press conference from Texas to provide updates on the New World Screwworm, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s description of its June 8, 2026 upload. At over an hour, the briefing is the department’s fullest single public update on the screwworm response in Rollins’s USDA-channel record.

Why it matters

The New World screwworm is a livestock pest whose northward spread threatens the cattle industry USDA exists to protect; the Secretary’s Texas briefings are the department’s front-line account of the response, delivered in the state closest to the threat.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard candidate: the screwworm-response updates the Secretary provided at this press conference, as she stated them, are dated claims to be checked against the response’s subsequent record. Flagged for the weekly editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, ‘Secretary Rollins Hosts New World Screwworm Press Conference,’ June 8, 2026 (official upload, embedded above).