The Trump administration says they’ll spend up to $1 billion to lower skyrocketing egg prices as the virus continues to spread. The president and administration officials have continuously pinned most of the blame for consumer woes and the U.S. response on the Biden administration, saying that they hadn’t taken the issue “seriously.”.
![[Rollins said prices should start to come down ‘maybe later this spring, this summer.’ But not until they increase some more.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/02/26/21/51/AP25057532235588.jpeg)
Now, experts are warning that egg prices will continue to go up - to the tune of a 40 percent jump in 2025. The price has been driven by the killing of chickens in response to bird flu. As the disease is traced and found in flocks, they are slaughtered to slow the spread. More than 166 million chickens have been killed during the three-year outbreak, officials said.
The secretary said Trump had made the issue a priority “from minute one,” and that they would work to repopulate following the culling of millions of chickens exposed to the virus. She would not say which countries could be involved in importing eggs to the U.S.
