Market analysts and professors who have examined the government's proposal to import up to 100 million eggs questioned whether it would work in practice.

Donald Trump's administration has promised to import 70 million to 100 million eggs as part of a $1billion emergency response to the ongoing bird flu crisis.

To reassure Trump’s Cabinet, Musk, who is not a Cabinet member himself, gave the example of DOGE “accidentally” canceling Ebola prevention as part of the stunning 90-day freeze on international aid and shutting down of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Agriculture Secretary Rollins said the plan includes a $500 million investment to strengthen biosecurity measures for farmers.

President Donald Trump said Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins will be doing “something” about rising egg prices throughout the U.S. “She’s going to do something with the eggs,” Trump said. “We inherited all the problems.

Lawmakers from states with strong agriculture interests have pleaded with the administration to carve out tariff exemptions for fertilizers and other products that are critical for growing US crops

The sticker-shock warning came amid the unveiling of a new plan by the Trump administration to alleviate egg prices, which included investing another $1 billion in helping American farms tighten up biosecurity to keep the avian flu out of their broods and outsourcing up to 100 million eggs from other countries to feed the American market.

President Donald Trump and members of his second administration are continuing their effort to swiftly remodel the federal government, including making far-reaching changes to personnel. The president on Wednesday held his first Cabinet meeting, during which he discussed federal jobs, Elon Musk's role, tariffs and Russia.

The Trump administration announced earlier this month that TPS would be revoked for Venezuelans, even though U.S. policy calls the current socialist Venezuelan leadership illegitimate. Last week, however, immigrant rights groups filed two lawsuits in California and Maryland challenging the revocation of status.

The White House will now decide which news outlets are represented in the daily White House press pool, not the White House Correspondents Association, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday.