India, June 7 -- The Trump administration's "Make America Great Again" agenda has been the subject of a new political debate following the discovery of a New World screwworm infection in Texas for the first time in decades. Critics have questioned whether federal budget cuts played a role in the parasite's return to American soil.

The New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite officially eradicated from the United States in 1966, was recently detected in a three-week-old calf near La Pryor, Texas, roughly 30 miles from the Mexican border on Wednesday.

The finding prompted an emergency response from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which has established a 20-km-wide containment zone, imposed livestock movement controls and expa...