redstate.com By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has hit the ground running with a five-pronged strategy to combat the inflated price of eggs.
Egg prices are skyrocketing, and it isn’t simply a matter of inflation. Grocery prices rose by more than 20% on President Biden’s watch, but the average price of a dozen eggs went up 237%, from $1.47 in January 2021 to $4.95 last month. This matters for American families because eggs are a healthy, accessible and generally affordable source of protein.
In many cases, families are seeing prices of $6, $7, $10 or more. This is due in part to continuing outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which has devastated American poultry farmers and slashed the egg supply over the past two years.
The Biden administration did little to address the repeated outbreaks and high egg prices that followed. By contrast, the Trump administration is taking the issue seriously. To that end, today I am announcing a comprehensive strategy to combat avian influenza.
Rollins plans to make a $1 billion investment toward that end, ultimately reducing the inflation on eggs. Rollins is also working with DOGE to find and cut the wasteful spending at the Department of Agriculture. Rollins’ aim is to repurpose the appropriated dollars into long-term solutions to combat avian flu. Since 2022, the Biden administration culled 166 million laying hens as their solution to address the virus…
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