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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said all kinds of questionable things about the record high egg prices during an interview with Fox Business on Wednesday.
President Trump, in the last few years as he was making his case to be reelected for the third time for the 47th presidency, talked about really lots of different issues, but his top two were border security and the cost of groceries and food inflation, Rollins said to host Stuart Varney.
Rollins then credited decreases in wholesale egg costs since February to Donald Trumps big, bold plan without giving any details and ignoring the fact that the drop is largely due to a slowdown in bird flu outbreaks, which has severely impacted poultry production. The avian flu has been one of the main drivers of egg prices, and coupled with decreased consumer demand because of cost, prices have dipped in recent weeks, though they remain at historic levels.
She says all of this just one day after the United States Department of Agriculture predicted that egg prices would climb nearly 58% this year. Just sayin.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/26/2312681/-Agriculture-secretary-talks-herself-in-circles-over-egg-prices
That's a word salad says nothing.
Lovie777
(24,291 posts)didn't RWers claim the egg prices were going down about a couple weeks ago?
MagickMuffin
(18,381 posts)She will have egg on her face with all the egglesssense she is spewing!
Walleye
(45,756 posts)keep_left
(3,241 posts)That's apparently the latest delusional talking point that Trump wants proclaimed, and he's got lots of servile toadies like Brooke Rollins to do the proclaiming. Here's a little pro tip for the Trump cabinet members: you might want to brush up on your civics. Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden, which means he was elected twice. In addition, the 22nd Amendment prohibits anyone from serving more than two terms as President, so your boss is now serving his second and last term--in actual fact.
SWBTATTReg
(26,492 posts)face. W/ their lack of any substantial leadership, and actual knowledge of the facts on the ground, I see a man-made disaster coming soon, on many different items, soon to be joined by EU and North American tariffs aimed at the American consumer, and inflation will go through the roof while tRUMP and his idiots all claim otherwise, even when the facts are blatantly shoved into their faces.
Stock up on things while you can. Think about what you really need or want, and if necessary, try and stock up on it if you can. Perhaps create your own coop to jointly buy goods on the cheap (compared to the soon to be outrageous prices commanded by the tRUMP disaster). Idiot is really going to ruin our well running economy left by Pres. Biden for literally no reason at all. He's pissing off our former allies on literally every front, and he's kicked the all mighty American consumer to the curb, thinking that consumers don't know anything.