Agriculture Sec. Rollins Announces 5-Point Plan to Bring Cost of Eggs Down
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ROLLINS: “Clearly one of the key issues facing America today are the egg prices. And the president has made it one of his priorities from minute one that we bring those prices down for consumers while protecting America's farmers. And very quickly, you can see here this chart. The prices of eggs under Biden have just skyrocketed. Under Trump went down a little bit. Obama went up a little bit. So, it's more than just the avian flu, but certainly that has been the driver. So, just this morning -- I'm going to hand this back to you -- so just this morning we announced a plan to, first of all, attack the avian flu and how we pull it back out of our poultry producers, but secondly, how we bring the cost of eggs down. So, that plan has five parts.”