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President Donald Trump’s White House Secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, urged Congress members to confirm Trump’s candidates to address problems such as United States egg scarcity and the cost of the crisis of life.
“This is an example of why it is so incredible that the Senate will move quickly to confirm all the candidates of President Trump, including his candidate for the United States Department of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, who is already talking to Kevin Hassett, who lead the team economy here in the White House, on how we can address the scarcity of eggs in this country, “Leavitt told journalists on Tuesday His first press session of the White House.
“We have also seen that the cost of everything, not only eggs, bacon, groceries, gasoline, have increased due to the inflationary policies of the last administration,” said Leavitt.
Leavitt’s comments came directly after the Democrats took several punches to Trump Manipulation of the cost of the crisis of life a few days after its inauguration, citing the increasing prices of eggs in the midst of larger conversations about the price of groceries and the cost of life in general.
While the consumer price index shows the consumer Prices increased approximately 20% Under the administration of former President Joe Biden, Democrats are still skeptical that Trump’s economic proposals will be effective.
“It is supposed that the price of eggs and the cost of life. said in an AX post On Friday.
Clack: Egg prices increase almost 37 percent
The leader of the minority of the chamber, Hakem Jeffries, Dn.y., criticized the economic plans of President Donald Trump, saying: “The price of eggs and the cost of life should go down. It does not go up.” (Getty’s pictures)
“The concepts of a Trump’s plan” at work “, Suhas Subraramanam, D-Va., said in an AX post On Friday, pointing to a photo claiming a dozen eggs cost almost $ 9. It is unclear where the photo or its authenticity originated.
Subraramanam’s post referred to Trump’s comments that had “concepts of a plan” to replace the Affordable Care Act, during a September 2024 presidential debate with former President Kamala Harris.
Meanwhile, the consumer price index is displayed Egg prices have increased almost 37% Last year. For example, about a dozen large -grade eggs at the cost of $ 4.15 in December, up to $ 2.51 in December 2023, according to the United States Labor Statistics Office.
In some states such as California, these numbers have passed to almost $ 9 for dozen in certain areas. California, like other states, such as Arizona, Massachusetts and Michigan, requires that all eggs sold in the state are from cage -free chickens, which are usually more expensive.
The increase in egg prices is in the middle of high demand and a massive outbreak of avian flu, known as highly pathogenic avian flu, that the United States Department of Agriculture attributes to kill more than 20 million chickens of egg laying in the last quarter of 2024. All people. The birds of an infected herd are achieved, aggravating the impact of the flu.
Leavitt blamed this slaughter policy on Tuesday to contribute to egg scarcity.
“The slow and ineffective response of Biden administration to the avian flu outbreak, which began in 2022, has adversely affected the north -American poultry producers and their USDA forced farmers to massively cut their livestock populations. “, said Anna Kelly, a White House Press Secretary, a Monday statement on Fox News Digital.
As a result, Kelly said that Trump and Rollins would take “daring and decisive” actions to tackle the problems related to bird flu and direct the Health Inspection Service of the USDA Animal and Plants to refuse the Health of animals and plants.
Democrats above have questioned Trump’s ability to reduce groceries and representative Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.Trump has no idea“How to reduce these prices.
Swalwell fell on social media to question -how Trump will lower grocery prices
Representative Eric Swalwell has questioned President Donald Trump’s ability to reduce groceries. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“I don’t care if Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. I just want to know what he will do to reduce the cost of groceries,” Swalwell’s representative wrote on X on January 7.
Vice President JD Vance addressed the cost of groceries In an interview on Sunday with Margaret Brennan of CBS, citing several executive orders that Trump signed his first week in office focused on the economy and reducing energy prices. Among these orders was a directive that instructed all departments and agencies to address the cost of the crisis of life.
Vice President JD Vance faced Margaret Brennan of CBS on various topics, including grocery prices in an interview on January 26, 2025. (CBS screen capture)
“Prices will go down, but it will spend some time, right?” Vance said. “The President has been president for five days. I think in these five days he has achieved more than Joe Biden did in four years.”
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The state of the economy was classified as the main topic of the 2024 election, according to Gallup survey conducted in September 2024.
The voters also believed that Trump was best equipped to address the economy than his opponent, Harris. While 54% of North voters -Americans claimed that Trump could better manage the economy, only 45% supported Kamala, found the poll.
Alexandra Koch and Hanna Panreck from Fox Business contributed to this report.
