Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins stated all types of questionable issues in regards to the report excessive egg costs throughout an interview with Fox Enterprise 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 stated to host Stuart Varney.
Rollins then credited decreases in wholesale egg prices since February to Donald Trump’s “big, bold plan” with out giving any particulars and ignoring the truth that the drop is essentially resulting from a slowdown in fowl flu outbreaks, which has severely impacted poultry manufacturing. The avian flu has been one of many major drivers of egg costs, and matched with decreased client demand due to value, costs have dipped in latest weeks, although they continue to be at historic ranges.
She says all of this simply sooner or later after the US Division of Agriculture predicted that egg costs would climb practically 58% this 12 months. Simply sayin’.
It is very important be aware that that is the second time in lower than two weeks Rollins and the Trump administration have crowed about falling costs, whereas shoppers and farmers proceed to wrestle. Rollins advised Fox Information a lot of the identical factor final week. The distinction final week was that the USDA was predicting that egg costs would solely be rising 41.1% this 12 months.
Up to now, Trump’s pleas to international locations like Denmark for eggs, after threatening them for months in all method of weird methods, haven’t delivered the magic bullet in grocery discount he promised. And the actual influence of his tariffs hasn’t actually even begun.
