Egg prices have significantly declined since President Donald Trump took office in January and implemented a five-point plan targeting the key causes of the spike.
Prices for eggs dropped 63% since last month, with the average wholesale price of a dozen large eggs hovering around $3, an Axios report said Friday. On February 21, the average price was $8.15.
In a White House press release sent to The Daily Wire, the administration credited the decline to their recent efforts to combat the avian flu and repopulate the chicken supply. United States Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins laid out their five-point plan on Fox News this past week.
“Under Joe Biden, egg prices increased 237% — we never heard anyone in the mainstream media talk about it,” Rollins opened. “But the day that Trump gets elected, January 20 — all of a sudden it’s his fault that egg prices have increased 237%.”
The secretary said Trump tasked her to come up with a plan to lower egg prices. “About a week after I was sworn in, we launched a very significant five-point-plan,” Rollins outlined. “It included deregulation to bring costs down for our chicken farmers, it included more quickly repopulating those populations affected by the avian bird flu, it included biosecurity measures, it included importing eggs from other countries for the short-term to get those prices down … and then the fifth point was significant longterm research on therapeutics, vaccines, culling methods, etc.”
The secretary added that the market almost immediately reacted when they implemented the plan a month ago. “The market will react to big, bold plans and being fearless and trying to fix things in a major way, and that’s what we’re working to do,” Rollins said.
