WASHINGTON – USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has been keen to lower US egg prices last week for President Donald Trump and his administration to take all the necessary actions to do so He told Breitbart News that he was doing it. .
Rollins, who was confirmed by the US Senator as Trump's Agriculture Secretary on Thursday, spoke to Breitbart News on Friday afternoon in his first day as secretary. Rollins previously served in Trump's White House in his first term, before starting the American First Policy Institute.
After Trump's historic victory in the November election, she was appointed to lead the USDA. This is a very important government sector that is deeply involved in policy focused on food prices. Her interview with Breitbart News on Friday afternoon was her first print interview with a non-trade publication.
Rollins is one of the very important parts of Trump's mission is to lower food prices and fight inflation, and she intends to lead the charges to make it happen. He said.
“First of all, it's very clear that the President has campaigned on important and transformative changes,” Rollins told Breitbart News. “I was next to him for three years at the last White House, so I set up the American First Policy Institute to continue America First Policy beyond President Trump. When I launched it, he was It's even part of the 'T because we didn't know we'd run again, but we wanted to be ready when the next conservative administration came. And our team When the team was ready and the opportunity came again, we thought we were back. We'll prepare for the day.”
“So when the president clearly ran again and began talking directly to the American people, it was border guards, it was peace through force, an opportunity for education, but there was food prices right there.” She continued. “With many of his interviews and his campaign halt, he spoke about what happened under Joe Biden, and what he did to moms trying to buy inflation and groceries. I'm a mom of four teenagers. I feel this as everyone else does. It's really essential to me and the president realizes his vision with this food price, especially eggs. Working as hard as you can to help you do is top of the list.”
Food prices continue to rise. The recent economic numbers announced earlier this month show that inflation, which has skyrocketed under former President Joe Biden, is far worse than anyone in Washington, particularly including egg prices. The egg industry is shaking not only inflation, but also bird flu that infects chickens across the country, and even some stores are short on the number of eggs that customers can buy.
Rollins rushed to Breitbart News on Friday to a briefing on egg price issues on Thursday afternoon, as soon as she was voted for the US Senate and sworn as USDA secretary, and President Trump and other tops Economic advisers like Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, who said they spoke to the White House, have said they were talking to the issue. She said this week she expects major actions from the Trump administration on egg prices, but didn't provide much specific details as to what those actions were.
“My first briefing – I think I was voted yesterday around noon. I was sworn around 3, took a few photos and quickly explained the USDA team and the prices of bird flu and eggs,” to Breitbart News He spoke. “I think there were about eight people in my office at USDA. I've already spoken to the president about that. I've spoken to Kevin Hassett, the counterpart of the NEC's White House, and I've still got it. I'm not ready to announce anything, but I'll be more specific next week.”
“We really want to wrap our arms around before we start talking too many things, but there are some real paths that we can take,” she explained. “I think it's really important for the audience to understand that these eggs are priced at almost 40 years high. This has been an upward trajectory for a while. Now, Trump's four-year surge Below, they've returned to '17, '18, '19 and '20. At least in recent history, we had some of the lowest prices on record this year.”
“But it's not surprising because we know that the prices of eggs have absolutely skyrocketed in the last four years and that more regulations and tax increases have skyrocketed for everyone,” Rollins said. pointed out. “I still don't want to cast a finger of criticism or points, but I knew this bird flu was a problem for the past few years. I was in the process of dealing with it three years ago, two years ago, a year ago, to deal with it Didn't there be much more to be done? I'm still trying to understand. But we're working on it. We're working on it. And we're working on it. I'll do everything I can to help.”
Rollins seeks more details about the USDA's potential to consider these issues as it combats the threat of inflation and the bird flu duel, and as well as efforts to re-train farmers' flocks, it also seeks possible biosecurity. Measures and efforts were proposed.
“We're looking at all the tools in our toolkit, including biosecurity measures,” Rollins told Breitbart News. “There are some successful models that USDA is implementing on a much smaller scale. Maybe all cancellations of the DEI program can talk about Doge as well, but to ensure farmers can protect against avian flu. Identifying additional funds is extremely important in terms of biosecurity measures. There are other countries in the world that use vaccines in egg layers that have none of these issues. Trade that must be considered It's a complicated solution because there is a connotation of it. But listen, when the prices of Canadian eggs are much lower than ours and they use that approach, it's what we can do. It's something that needs to be looked at very strongly.”
“We're working to accelerate renutrition as the Biden administration and its USDA repeatedly stripped off millions of egg layers,” she cited as another relief measure. “How do we quickly re-farm those farmers and their flocks? These are all very important points and there are some other things we can do, but note that it doesn't happen overnight. I think it's important to do that. This is definitely a few years of ineffective decision making and we don't fully address the issue. It could start to cool this down in the coming weeks. High and in the coming months, we've already been talking with other food producers around the country, but I think it's important that everyone realizes there's no magic wand here to be shaken. But There are a few things we can do to ensure that this doesn't happen again for the next quarter of this year, as well as the next 10 and 50 years.”
You may come straight from an exclusive Breitbart News interview with Rollins.
