In this case It's less about the source and more about the cuts to FDA/CDC to trace and mitigate. Like it was US-based lettuce that was the problem then obviously there's be an additional layer of accountability.

That said, it's way bigger of an outbreak than we've had in decades

after taylor farms gave republicans a million dollars, of course.

Yeah, I don't trust this administration to not cover it up to save face. No way of knowing what kinds of talks have been happening behind closed doors at the white house.

I'm dumb and/or not following this at all. What does that mean in this context: that they can't actually say that the lettuce was from Mexico?

The Taylor farms check cleared.