White House economists plan to control avian flu and lower egg prices
Eggs Unlimited Vice President of Brian Moscogiuri explains why egg prices continue to skyrocket as the outbreak of avian flu slows production.
The White House is working towards a plan to control the avian flu. Egg prices Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said on Sunday.
Hassett appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins “works with the best people in the government, including academics from all over the world, to plan to prepare President Donald Trump on the disease next week.
“Biden’s plan was to kill chickens. They spent billions of dollars just randomly killing chickens within the boundaries where they found sick chickens,” he said.
Hassett said the plans he is working on in the Trump administration “have better ways to make sure there’s no need to kill chickens, such as biosecurity or drugs.”
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The White House is working on a plan to control avian flu, said Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council. (Reuters/Dad Luvik, File/Reuters photo)
“So having smart boundaries is something we’re working on, and we’re setting out our best scientists in government and ideas on how to do that,” Hassett said. “And that was something that should have happened a year ago, and if that were the case, the egg price would be much better than it is now.”
Hassett also worked on “very big.” The problem of inflation, He was sent back to former President Joe Biden.
White House Economic Advisor Chairman Kevin Hassett speaks to the media during a press conference at the White House held in Washington, D.C. on February 22, 2018. (March Wilson/Getty Images/Getty Images)
“When I saw the consumer price index come out, I realized that the stags created by President Biden’s policies were far worse than I thought,” Hassett said. “Over the past three months, all products, including eggs, have had an average inflation rate of 4.6%, far above target, accelerating at the end of Biden’s period.”
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According to the latest, average egg prices have risen 15% since January, up 53% from the previous year Consumer Price Indexwas released on Wednesday. As the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis tracks, the average price for a large number of large Grade A eggs is approaching $5.00.
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The White House previously said the Biden administration has contributed to the lack of egg supply. Murdered over 100 million chickens.
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Sources tell Fox Business that culling infected flocks is a current US protocol, but more research and development is needed to control and prevent outbreaks such as bird vaccinations.
Suzanne O’Halloran of Fox Business contributed to this report.