President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins, delivered some good news last week, stating that the current administration is focused on getting the price of eggs lowered and is ready to do whatever is necessary in order to do so.
If you’ve been to a grocery store recently, then you’re well aware of the spike in egg prices, with labels simply telling you to sell your soul to the Devil in order to purchase a dozen. And, of course, radical leftists have been attacking Trump over this saying he’s not keeping his promise to lower grocery prices.
Rollins, who was officially confirmed into her current role last Thursday by the Senate, spoke in an interview with Breitbart News about what went down on her first full day of work. Those unfamiliar with Rollins might not know she formerly served in the Trump White House during his second term and also helped launch the America First Policy Center.
Not long after the president won the November election by a landslide, he picked Rollins to head up the USDA, which is a very important government agency that is a huge part of shaping policies concerning the price of food.
During the interview, Rollins said that one major aspect of Trump’s mandate is to bring food prices down and fight tooth and nail against the scourge of inflation and she is planning to be leading the charge to help make it a reality.
“First of all, it’s very clear that the president campaigned on significant and transformational change,” Rollins said during the conversation with Breitbart News. “Having been next to him for three years in the last White House, having launched the America First Policy Institute to continue the America First policies beyond President Trump—when I launched it I didn’t know he was going to run again so that wasn’t even really part of the plan, but we knew when the next conservative administration came in we wanted to be ready, and I believe just so sincerely that our team in the last Trump administration was ready and then when that opportunity came again that we would prepare for that day.”
“So when the president obviously ran again and began to talk directly to the American people it was border security, it was peace through strength, it was education opportunity, but right up there was food prices,” Rollins added. “In many of his interviews and many of his campaign stops, he talked about what happened under Joe Biden and the inflation rates and what that has done to moms who are trying to buy groceries. I am a mom of four teenagers. I feel this like everybody else does. It’s really imperative to me and it’s very top of the list to work as very hard as I can to help the president effectuate his vision on this issue of food prices, and specifically with eggs.”
Food prices have continued to travel toward the cosmos with recent data indicating that inflation under the Biden administration was even worse than anyone in the nation’s capital realized, especially the price of eggs. And inflation is not the only culprit. There has been a staggering number of bird deaths, including chickens, related to the spread of bird flu.
It’s gotten so bad that some stores across the country have taken to placing limits on how many eggs a customer can purchase.
Rollins told Breitbart News on Friday that as soon as she was voted on by the U.S. Senate and sworn in as the USDA Secretary that she rushed immediately into briefings Thursday afternoon on egg price issues and that she has spoken to President Trump and other top White House economic advisers, like National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, about the issue. She said to expect major actions this week on egg prices from the Trump administration, though did not provide much detail on specifically what those actions will be.
“My very first briefing—I think I was voted on around noon yesterday, I was sworn in around 3, took a couple pictures, and then I immediately went into a briefing on avian flu and egg prices with the team at USDA,” Rollins said during the interview. “I think I had about eight people in my office at USDA about it. I’ve already talked to the president about it. I’ve talked to my counterparts in the White House over at NEC, Kevin Hassett, and we’re not ready to announce anything yet, but next week we’ll be talking about this much more specifically.”
“I want to really get my arms around it before I start talking too much, but there are some real paths we can take,” she further elaborated. “I think it’s real important for your audience to understand these egg prices are at an almost 40-year high and that this has been an upward trajectory for a little while. Now, under the four years of Trump, they came back down in ’17, ’18, ’19, and ’20. At least in recent history, those years we had some of the lowest prices on record.”
“But it is the last four years that have absolutely spiked egg prices, and it’s not surprising because we know the Biden approach of more regulation and higher taxes spiked costs for everyone,” Rollins pointed out. “I don’t yet want to cast blame or point fingers, but we knew this avian flu was a problem over the last several years, and why more wasn’t done to address it three years ago, two years ago, one year ago? I’m still trying to figure out. But we’re on it. We’re on it. And we’re going to do everything we can to address it.”
When the outlet asked for Rollins to provide more details on how the USDA might fight against these problems with both the bird flu and inflation being formidable opponents to their success, she said that biosecurity measures and providing farmers with help to repopulate their flocks are potential solutions.
“We’re looking at every tool in the toolkit including biosecurity measures,” Rollins said. “There are some successful models out there that the USDA is implementing on a much smaller scale. Maybe with all of the cancellation of DEI programs, and we can talk about DOGE too, but identifying additional funding for our farmers to be able to protect against the avian flu is really important in terms of biosecurity measures. There are other countries in the world that use vaccines for their egg-layers that have none of these issues. That’s a complicated solution because there are some trade implications that have to be considered. But listen, when Canada’s price of eggs is much lower than ours and they’re using that approach, that’s something we need to take a very strong look at.”
” This is years of arguably ineffective decision-making and not completely addressing the problem. There is a good chance we begin to cool this down over the coming weeks, more likely the coming months, and we’re already in talks with other food producers across the country, but I think it’s important everyone realize there is not a magic wand to be waved here. But there are some things we can do to begin tackling it not just for the next quarter of this year but for the next 10 years and 50 years to ensure this doesn’t happen again,” she concluded.
Let’s hope the methods employed to bring this situation to a wrap, regardless of how long it might take, actually work and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to the damage done by the previous administration.