Trump's efforts to lower egg prices gets overshadowed by more partisan moves
Source: Roll Call
Posted March 24, 2025 at 3:42pm
President Donald Trump and his team have had success in driving down egg prices, but achieving this campaign promise largely has been drowned out by their aggressive push to expand executive authority, target political rivals and dismantle certain government agencies.
Some congressional Democrats, sensing a politically weakened president and Republican Party, have been increasingly vocal about the administration’s economic and government-cutting policies. On the latter, Trump acknowledged Monday during a Cabinet meeting that he has “no idea how it plays out in the public.”
“We’ve done a lot of cutting. … But it’s something that has to be done,” the president said. “The country was riddled with fat.” Trump on Monday highlighted his administration’s focus on bringing down egg prices. “If you look at when I came in after one week, they were screaming at me about eggs,” he said. “Eggs had nothing to do with me, but they were through the roof, and you couldn’t get them down.”
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Friday touted the administration’s agreements with Turkey and South Korea to ramp up their egg exports to the United States, adding that she was talking to other countries as well. Those negotiations could lead to “hundreds of millions of eggs for the short term,” she told reporters outside the White House. Egg imports from Brazil also have increased since Trump returned to office, Reuters reported Monday.
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Meanwhile the RETAILERS are STILL gouging the customers.
We see the same thing with gasoline prices. Crude oil prices drop for the gasoline refiners. Wholesale gasoline from those refiners to distributors/retail stations finally drop. Retail gas stations then take a LOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGG time to finally drop their prices for the customers. 
