With the extremely aggressive action, with the support of this committee and an entire across government effort, we began to push back very significantly starting February of last year. The aggressive action we took across the Trump administration and with our state and local partners bought us almost a year of critical time to prepare for what happened yesterday. We have now activated our new World Screwworm response playbook which includes detailed protocols and procedures for just this scenario. We've established a 20 kilometer zone around the detection and implementing quarantines, movement controls and surveillance in the region. (07:51–08:03)
CLAIM
Asserts that actions taken by the Trump administration and partners delayed the New World screw worm's impact by almost a year.
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