Agriculture Secretary Donald Trump boasted a fall in egg prices in an interview with Fox News on Monday. Previous predictions From her own division, she said egg prices would rise by a whopping 41.1% this year.
Brooke Rollins told host Brian Kilmeade that egg costs “have dropped 44% since Trump took office.”
And while Rollins’ claims may have a circle of truth, it is still not true for most people’s wallets. NPR Report While wholesale prices for eggs are falling, grocery stores are not incurring.
But this isn’t the first time that Rollins appears to have not come into contact with anything affecting the American people.
When egg prices began to skyrocket due to the ongoing outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu, people were unhappy with the prices and apparently couldn’t find eggs on grocery store shelves, as there have been more than 30 million egg-selling birds since its launch in 2025. I was killed To contain the virus.
In response to the lack of eggs and chickens, Rollins suggested that people would start raising their own chickens.
“I think the silver lining for this is how we have chickens in our backyard. How do we solve this? I said in the interview About “Fox and Friends.”
Rollins also missed the mark by the Trump administration. We’ve taken out $1 billion in funds For schools and food banks to buy food from local farms. The program benefits children’s health and farmer’s pockets He voted for Trump overwhelminglythe administration decided to x it completely.
To defend the decision, Rollins went on Fox News (again) and began to look rambling Transphobic justification For a cut.
Rollins has a program aimed at providing children with Teaching transgender farmers About “food justice.”
She called this “left efforts to spend taxpayer money that wasn’t necessary.”
However, in an interview with Kilmead on the same Monday, she admitted that there is one of the president’s biggest voter bases. Hit the most intense of his trade war.
“There may be some bumps ahead of me,” Rollins said. “There is no doubt that these farmers are concerned, but there is no doubt that these farmers believe in President Trump’s vision and his leader.”
Farmers supporting Trump in South Dakota are already in pain. And some of them have already pleaded with elected representatives for help.
On March 4, Sioux Falls farmers urged Sen. John Tune to end the trade war earlier than delayed. They hope that the president they vote will deliver Will, but farmers see their profits diminished.
“(Tax) naturally hurts the pocketbook,” said Rodney Koch, a soybean farmer north of Sioux Falls. Dakota News Now. “But will we come out of it in the long run?”
Trump hurts farmers Similar trade wars During his first administration. At that time he gave the voter base. Relief. This time – Elon Musk’s so-called government efficiency bureau, teaming up with the GOP-controlled house and the Senate. A significant reduction in government budgets– I can’t see any relief.
Scott Vanderwal, president of the South Dakota Farm Bureau, told Dakota News he was willing to deal with the “temporary pain” as long as members of his station see some benefit “on the other side.”
“But we have helped the administration understand that in the current AG economy, the president prefers to use tariffs sparingly,” Vanderwal said.
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