USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins today laid out the Trump Administration’s comprehensive plan to bring down the price of eggs.
Rollins, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, announced a strategy to combat avian influenza. The Agriculture Department will invest up to $1 billion to curb this crisis and make eggs affordable again. This money will be repurposed from the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to cut wasteful spending. Some of those dollars will be invested in long-term solutions to avian flu. HPAI has resulted in about 166 million laying hens being culled since 2022. In the past month, there have been confirmation of bird flu in a layer flock in O’Brien County, and Turkey flocks in Buena Vista and Sac counties.
