USDA Secretary: Lower Egg Prices Are “Coming Soon”

The Hill reports:

USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins said a price drop for eggs has already hit some parts of the country, but for others, it is “coming” soon. Rollins joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where she highlighted a major economic indicator: the price of eggs. Egg prices rose to a record high in March at $6.23 per dozen, despite the Trump administration’s expressions of optimism that prices would be dropping under Trump’s leadership.

“When the President was sworn in, the price of eggs had increased 237 percent under the last administration,” Rollins said. “When you look at the wholesale cost of eggs, which drives the retail cost, the retail will follow soon, the actual wholesale cost of eggs is down 58 percent in the last six weeks,” she later said. In parts of the country, prices have seen a “significant” drop in retail cost, she said.

Read the full article. Last week Trump repeatedly lied that the price of eggs has gone down 90%. As you’ll see in the clip below, today Rollins was unable to name a single trade deal brokered by Trump despite his claim to Time Magazine that he has made “200 deals.”