Egg prices plunge nearly $2, now lower than when Trump took office
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Via: vic-eldred • 3 days ago • 23 commentsBy: Story by Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters Tuesday morning that egg prices have dropped by nearly $2 since the Trump administration initiated its biosafety strategy for combatting H5N1 bird flu , which has decimated the poultry industry in recent months.
Late last month, Rollins announced that the Department of Agriculture would spend $1 billion to lower egg prices and curb the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza.
In addition to possibly importing up to 100 million eggs from foreign markets, Rollins’s plan included subsidizing biosecurity measures for poultry farms and continuing research on the efficacy of preventive vaccines for poultry.
“We’re more focused on how we bring the price of eggs down and the avian bird flu for everyone,” Rollins told reporters Tuesday morning. “A good piece of news we just got in the last day or two is that the average cost of a dozen eggs has gone down $1.85 since we announced our plan about a week and a half ago.”
The average price of a dozen large white eggs fell to $6.08 as of Tuesday, according to the USDA. Prices eclipsed $8 at the start of the month. They were $6.27 on Inauguration Day.
A USDA report published in February found that egg prices increased by approximately 53% since January 2024. The price of eggs increased by nearly 14% from December to January, on top of an 8% increase from November to December.
Approximately 160 million chickens have been euthanized due to the virus in the past few months, contributing to the marked rise in egg prices.
Rollins noted for reporters Tuesday that egg prices are typically higher in March and April due to the Easter holiday.
“This is always the highest price for eggs,” she said.
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And it only took Trump 50 days.
I can't wait to see what the next 50 days are like.
Yea but he could have done it better. He said he would do it on the first day. Yea but he is getting Russian eggs from Putin. Just cuing it up for a few of the Trump hysteria club members.
LMAO! Ya, like they don't know that is a boast.
Yea but he is getting Russian eggs from Putin. Just cuing it up for a few of the Trump hysteria club members.
I hear ya.
I wonder why the obsession with certain public figures.
It has gotten creepy.
They seem to hate Musk more than anyone now.
Putin triggers then
and we know the rest.
So, what specifically did Trump do to lower the price of eggs?
Specifically: initiated a biosafety strategy for combatting bird flu.
You're behind on causes for egg price increases.
Justice Department investigates record egg prices, corporate profit
Profits jumped 82% for Cal-Maine, the nation's largest egg producer, between the first and second fiscal quarters of this year.
Then it is time to crack down.
Nah, Trump would call price gouging good business practice.
We have so many experts on Trump here. It makes one wonder how he won the popular vote in 2024.
Won by how many votes???
A few million
You sure? Is that your final answer?
Technically, there were 77,302,580 votes for Trump and 78,999,738 votes not for Trump. So, if you look at it that way, there were 1,697,158 more Americans that didn't want Trump than those who did. Hard to claim a big victory for Trump when that's the case. However, between the two major party candidates, Trump won 2,284,967 more votes than Harris which some consider the "popular vote" difference. It's not the 7,059,526 more votes Biden won by in 2020, but would still be considered the winner of the popular vote when comparing any individual candidates.
The ninnies in Ohio and Michigan who could not be persuaded to support Harris yet claimed they did not vote for Trump, who place protest votes for whoever, will complain the loudest...
To do what, exactly?
Right the ship.
So, he actually did nothing that impacts the price of eggs. Which is fine. I didn’t actually expect him to do much about it. The thing driving up egg prices isn’t liberalism or conservatism; it’s the bird flu. Farmers are already doing what they can about it.
Maybe the only thing I’ve heard that might change things is a vaccine. But we know how the current administration feels about vaccines.
More troubling is this:
Followed by a lack of evidence. I have looked and looked and can’t confirm that what this lady “told reporters” is actually true. And of course, journalists tend to just repeat whatever they are told, without much critical analysis. Here is some reporting (and even here, the headline uncritically repeats the claim) that casts doubt on the claim:
Egg prices fall, Trump administration says, but perhaps only for a little while
So, it seems premature to go spiking the football on egg prices. It’s not clear prices have actually gone down at all, and even if they have, there’s no evidence that Trump or his administration did anything special to make it happen.
That is not entirely true. Inflation caused the price rise first. The bird flu exacerbated it.
I have looked and looked and can’t confirm that what this lady “told reporters” is actually true.
Here, I have it:
Figures released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that the average cost of one dozen eggs is now significantly cheaper than in recent days . The economic indicator website Trading Economics shows that a dozen eggs were $5.51 on Tuesday, more than $2 cheaper than "an all-time high of 8.17 in March of 2025." This represents a decrease of nearly 33 percent.
Egg Prices Plummet - Newsweek
The Agriculture Secretary told the truth.
So, it seems premature to go spiking the football on egg prices.
With only 50 days in it is unconscionable to hold Trump responsible for anything economically.
Right, but here’s the problem with that data according to that website:
So, it’s a commodities market calculation. Regular people don’t buy their eggs by the 30-dozens at some port. We buy them by the dozen at retail markets, and those prices have not come down. Believe me, we eat lots of eggs in our house, and I very much want to see the price go down. It’s just not happening yet.
I don’t think anyone is holding Trump responsible for it. Everyone knows it’s happening because of bird flu. But it would be equally silly to give him credit for fixing it this early, as you are.
He did, however, say things like he would lower prices on Day 1 - the usual bullshit. So if he gets called out for focusing on something other than lowering prices, I’d say he brought that criticism upon himself.
And we will never hear the media talk about egg prices again
The silence will be deafening!