While American families struggle to keep food on the table, the Biden administration’s solution to rising egg prices? Kill the chickens. Yes, you read that right. According to Kevin Hassett, former Trump administration economic adviser, Biden’s response to the Avian Flu outbreak has been nothing short of disastrous—spending billions to slaughter chickens rather than implementing smarter, science-backed solutions.
In an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, Hassett didn’t hold back when asked about the administration’s strategy to combat soaring egg prices. “The Biden plan was just to kill chickens,” Hassett bluntly stated. “They spent billions of dollars just randomly killing chickens within a perimeter where they found a sick chicken.”
Anyone who’s been grocery shopping lately has seen the empty egg shelves and sticker shock when cartons do appear. Hassett, speaking from personal experience, said, “I just went to the grocery store shopping for my family—there were no eggs at the store yesterday, just a few. And that happened because they killed all the chickens.”
Instead of exploring effective methods like improved biosecurity measures or targeted medication, the Biden administration opted for a scorched-earth policy—wiping out healthy livestock and leaving Americans with empty shelves and inflated grocery bills.
Hassett pointed out that under President Trump, the focus would have been on “smart perimeters” and solutions that don’t involve mass poultry destruction. “We need to have better ways with biosecurity and medication so that you don’t have to kill the chickens,” he emphasized. “That’s what we’re working on—using the best scientists to find real solutions.”
