Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins accused the media of turning a blind eye during the Biden administration to rising egg prices—an issue that only began making headlines once President Trump took office.
“The prices of eggs under the four years of Joe Biden increased 237 percent … and yet it wasn’t covered in the press at all,” she said during a Cabinet meeting on Monday. “No one talked about the price of eggs in the summer of last year, for example, in the media, so of course the president wins and he is inaugurated and the next day everyone is yelping about why the price of eggs are so high.”
Rollins said since the USDA released a five-point plan last month to address the high price of eggs amid outbreaks of the avian flu, wholesale prices have come down 53 percent.
“At least for now in the short term…the price of eggs are coming down as well as the price of groceries,” she said.
.@SecRollins: The prices of eggs under the four years of Joe Biden increased 237% ... We released a very significant plan about a month ago about how to bring the price of eggs down... since that time, the wholesale price of eggs has come down 53%. pic.twitter.com/UM1jev7kYJ
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In the meeting, Rollins also announced some of the contracts USDA has canceled to help rein in waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government.
Trump's Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins just said she canceled a contract up in New York to educate "transgender and queer farmers on food justice and equality."
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 24, 2025
"I'm not even sure what that means."pic.twitter.com/Z0gAONywfI
"We've canceled $600,000 out of Louisiana that was studying the menstrual cycles of transgender men. We canceled another contract out of a University in the middle of the country that focused on getting more DEI into the pest management industry. Again, these are nonsensical. It makes zero sense to use taxpayer dollars to fund these."
Secretary of Agriculture Brook Rollins on canceling gov contracts for woke programs:
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 24, 2025
"We've canceled $600,000 out of Louisiana that was studying the menstrual cycles of transgender men. We canceled another contract out of a University-- that focused on getting more DEI into the… pic.twitter.com/71uzk1LaAO
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