U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump’s administration will be focusing its egg price reduction efforts on repopulation of chickens and on biosecurity measures, and that the administration is now ruling out any vaccines for animals against avian bird flu.
Rollins, who spoke with Breitbart News Wednesday evening after Trump’s huge address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, broke down key planks of the administration’s billion-dollar plan to combat egg price hikes. Trump mentioned Rollins and egg prices during his address on Tuesday evening, and put the blame squarely on former President Joe Biden’s administration for the price spiraling out of control.
Rollins, in reaction to that, told Breitbart News that Trump is exactly right that Biden is to blame, because Biden’s top advisers knew about this problem for years and did not take substantive steps to address it.
“The president last night at the State of the Union, I was in his line of sight so that was perhaps part of it, but he sort of mentioned me and talked about some of the key issues we’re working on. Clearly, the price of groceries is a big one. He said ‘We got to get it done’ and I said ‘Yes sir.’ That’s why last week as you know we had the five different pieces of the plan, and it’s bold. The Biden administration, we have been looking at some different things they did where they recognized this as a massive problem for the food supply chain, for poultry producers, for egg-layers, et cetera, but they never did anything about it. This has been going on now for two years. So it isn’t just regulation and all of the cost input increases and overregulation from the Biden administration, but it’s also not completely addressing the avian bird flu a couple years ago when it first hit. Now, we are having to deal with it.”
Rollins then referenced the $1 billion plan the USDA announced last week to combat egg price surges, and noted the first two key planks of it are biosecurity and repopulation of the chickens that the Biden administration killed off. She said the third and fourth planks of the plan are to deregulate the industry to make repopulation and biosecurity measures happen more quickly, and then to import eggs from other countries. […]
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