Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is laying out the Trump administration’s comprehensive plan to bring down soaring egg prices, the White House announced on Wednesday.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Rollins presented her strategy to combat avian influenza, which has devastated American poultry farmers and greatly reduced the egg supply over the past two years.

She said that the Agriculture Department will invest up to $1 billion to deal with the crisis and bring down the price of eggs.

As part of the plan, she declared that “we are working with the Department of Government Efficiency to cut hundreds of millions of dollars of wasteful spending” and will use some of the savings to invest in “long-term solutions to avian flu, which has resulted in about 166 million laying hens being culled since 2022.”

Rollins said the department has developed a five-pronged strategy, because “there’s no silver bullet to eradicating avian flu.”

The first step will be to allocate up to $500 million to aid U.S. poultry producers in implementing gold-standard biosecurity measures. 

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