{"id":2435151,"date":"2025-05-15T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/egg-prices-plummet-under-trump-admin-biggest-monthly-drop-in-40-years\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:17:37","slug":"egg-prices-plummet-under-trump-admin-biggest-monthly-drop-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/egg-prices-plummet-under-trump-admin-biggest-monthly-drop-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Egg Prices Plummet Under Trump Admin, Biggest Monthly Drop in 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fegg-prices-plummet-under-trump-admin-biggest-monthly-drop-in-40-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2435151&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the recent decline in egg prices, which have experienced their largest monthly drop in over four decades, coinciding with Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency. The average price for a dozen grade A eggs fell to $5.12 from a record high of $6.23 in March, marking the first month-to-month decline since October 2024. The author criticizes Democrats for shifting blame when prices rose during Biden&#8217;s term, now highlighting that lower prices align with Trump&#8217;s initiatives to manage the egg market. This includes a $1 billion program for biosecurity and an antitrust examination into Cal-Maine Foods, a major egg supplier. The piece implies that the media&#8217;s response to this news is biased, particularly from liberal sources. it suggests that while egg prices are dropping,the political discourse surrounding them remains contentious.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Remember how Democrats suddenly started caring about egg prices when Donald Trump became president again?<\/p>\n<p>It was no longer Joe Biden&rsquo;s fault, after all, so they no longer had to pretend like it was a complex problem the president had no control over.<\/p>\n<p>Where are those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/egg-prices-now-falling-floor-trump-keeps-promise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-blast-trump-for-not-lowering-grocery-prices-immediately-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Democrats blast Trump for not lowering grocery prices \u2018immediately\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">lower egg prices<\/a>, hmm<\/a>? We were just going to assume that once you took the oath of office, chickens would magically start laying eggs at twice the rate and they&rsquo;d be practically free!<\/p>\n<p>It got to the point where even Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California cared about it, provided that it could be linked to deportation, of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Eric Swalwell claims Trump is deporting kids with cancer, leaves out context that the child&rsquo;s whole family was deported for illegal residency:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People just wanted cheap eggs, and now you&rsquo;re deporting kids with cancer.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qmZI3mfWva\">pic.twitter.com\/qmZI3mfWva<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ResisttheMS\/status\/1917697172583096343?\">April 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Expect that rhetoric to stop in a hurry, considering <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >egg prices aren&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t just on their way down, but even experienced their biggest monthly drop in over 41 years in April.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The average price for a dozen Grade A eggs declined to $5.12 last month after reaching a record $6.23 in March, according to the Consumer Price Index. It was the first month-to-month drop in egg prices since October 2024,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2025\/may\/13\/us-egg-prices-fall-first-time-months-still-near-record-highs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Overall, the average price of eggs of all sizes fell 12.7%, the steepest monthly decline since March 1984.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, on Grade A eggs, the drop was 17.8 percent, which is an excellent sign.<\/p>\n<p>So now we can deport whatever illegal alien we want &mdash; right, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/swalwell-condemns-trump-greenland-talk-says-just-cares-cost-groceries-promptly-gets-roasted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Swalwell<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>As the Times noted, wholesale prices of eggs have been down for some time. Retail prices are what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/down-on-the-farm-why-americas-food-producers-are-hurting-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Down on the farm: Why America\u2019s food producers are hurting - Washington Examiner\">economists call &#038;ldquo<\/a>;sticky,&rdquo; however &mdash; because they don&rsquo;t respond instantaneously to wholesale prices &mdash; and both Easter and Passover bring higher demand.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the bird flu outbreak continues to affect the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/regulations-bureaucratic-backlog-threaten-pork-shortage-in-california\/\" title=\"Regulations, Bureaucratic Backlog Threaten Pork Shortage In California\">egg-laying hens<\/a>, which is part of the problem. That might take longer to solve, although Trump&rsquo;s Department of Agriculture has announced a $1 billion program to increase biosecurity for farmers to stop the spread, and imports from other countries are increasing.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s also an antitrust investigation from the U.S. Department of Justice against Cal-Maine Foods, the conglomerate which supplies about one-fifth of the eggs in the United States; the company confirmed the investigation last month.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is part of a comprehensive plan from the Trump White House to decrease egg prices &mdash; and it&rsquo;s working. You&rsquo;d hope everyone would be reporting it this way.<\/p>\n<p>But this, of course, is the Washington Times &mdash; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bickley-npr-targets-daily-wire-implicitly-presses-facebook-to-suppress-traffic-its-time-to-fight-back\/\" title=\"BICKLEY: NPR Targets Daily Wire, Implicitly Presses Facebook To Suppress Traffic. It\u2019s Time To Fight Back.\">conservative news source<\/a>. Pray tell, how do you think the liberal media is covering it?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is UNBELIEVABLE.<\/p>\n<p>The whole story is that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?\">@POTUS<\/a> is lying about egg prices going down, but egg prices are going down&hellip;.<\/p>\n<p>Give me a break <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?\">@cnn<\/a>. You just can&rsquo;t make this up. &#129318;&#127995;&zwj;&#9792;&#65039;&#129320; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QM4Zhexrku\">pic.twitter.com\/QM4Zhexrku<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecRollins\/status\/1922709867644485643?\">May 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&rsquo;s false. Until it&rsquo;s true. Welcome to CNN, the network where Biden was fit as a fiddle until that fateful debate on June 27, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Well, whatever: It&rsquo;ll be great to listen to this bleating from CNN and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rep-eric-swalwell-humiliates-attempt-snare-ben-shapiro-gotcha-question-backfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swalwell<\/a> in retrospect in the months to come, once they&rsquo;ve forgotten about this and moved to fresher manufactured controversies.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we can safely say that this is looking a lot like an object lesson in promises made, promises kept.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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It was no longer Joe Biden&#8217;s responsibility, so they didn&#8217;t have to act as if it was a complicated issue beyond the president&#8217;s control. So, where are those reduced egg prices? We were led to believe that once he took office, chickens would magically double their egg production and prices would plummet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2435152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Eggs-Chicago.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47989,33408,32640],"class_list":["post-2435151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-egg-prices","tag-price-drop","tag-trump-administration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Eggs-Chicago.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435155,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435151\/revisions\/2435155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}