Trump egg prices hit record high: U.S. Agriculture Department predicts how high they will go

Source: NJ.com

President Donald Trump‘s campaign pledge didn’t age well.

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” he said over the summer as voters repeatedly told pollsters the economy and rising prices were the largest things that concerned them.

Trump has been in office for weeks, now, and egg prices are soaring thanks to an ongoing bird flu outbreak.

The latest monthly consumer price index showed that the average price of a dozen Grade A eggs in U.S. cities reached $4.95 in January, eclipsing the previous record of $4.82 set two years earlier and more than double the low of $2.04 that was recorded in August 2023.

The spike in egg prices was the biggest since the nation’s last bird flu outbreak in 2015 and accounted for roughly two-thirds of the total increase in food costs last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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