Like Biden, Trump Does Not Control the Price of Eggs
When President Donald Trump won a second term in November, the economy topped most voters’ concerns. Many felt the pain of higher prices, and they voted with their wallets.
Trump talked repeatedly about runaway grocery prices during the campaign, pledging that if elected, paying over $4 for a carton of eggs would be a thing of the past. “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day 1,” he pledged.
But after winning reelection, Trump shrugged that it would be “hard” to bring grocery prices down “once they’re up.” Now, just days into his new administration, egg prices remain high and are likely to go higher. As it turns out, anyone who cast their vote thinking the president could unilaterally change grocery prices was buying into a fantasy.
“Eggs are one of the primary drivers of food inflation,” The Wall Street Journal‘s Patrick Thomas and Jesse Newman wrote the day before Trump’s inauguration. The price of a dozen eggs hit $4.15 in December, twice what it was just 14 months earlier.
“I wish I had good news about eggs, but alas, I do not,” Business Insider‘s Emily Stewart wrote this week. “No one knows when prices will come back down.”
Since 2022, avian flu outbreaks in the U.S. have devastated the population of egg-laying hens. The poultry industry is no stranger to avian flu, but “the problem with the current iteration is that it’s not going away,” Stewart wrote. “Once one chicken tests positive for the bird flu, the entire flock has to be culled (as in killed). Some farms have been wiped out several times over the past few years, and so many places have been affected that repopulation—getting new chickens to get
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