OAN Staff Katherine Mosack and Brooke Mallory
2:34 PM – Friday, April 3, 2026
With Easter Sunday approaching, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt highlighted a significant win for American grocery budgets, noting that average egg prices have plummeted by 80% compared to last year’s highs.
While some market analysts have since chimed in, attempting to downplay the good news by arguing that the national retail drop is “closer to 70%,” Leavitt’s announced figure represents a dramatic shift in the economy.
A dozen eggs that cost nearly $5.00 during the height of the avian flu crisis are now back to pre-shortage levels, providing substantial relief for families preparing for the holiday celebrating Jesus’ resurrection.
“Happy Easter: Egg Prices Are Down 80%,” Leavitt posted on X Friday morning, attaching a link to a Breitbart report.
The producer price index indicated that the prices of eggs for fresh use in late February were down 80.4% from a year prior, signifying a shift in morale going into the spring holidays.
According to the retail price data, the average price for a dozen Grade A eggs fell to $2.50 in February 2026 from $5.90 in February 2025, a decline of 57.6%. They had reached an all-time high of $6.23 per dozen in March 2025. Breitbart called it the largest one-year drop on record, based on historical data dating back to the 1980s.
“The egg price is out of control, and we’re working hard to get it back down,” Trump said while addressing a joint session of Congress in March of 2025.
In February last year, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins detailed the Trump administration’s strategy to stabilize egg prices, treating the surge as a primary metric for the nation’s broader affordability crisis. The initiative focused on domestic supply chain recovery to curb the inflationary pressures that had turned a kitchen staple into a symbol of economic strain.
“The Biden administration did little to address the repeated outbreaks and high egg prices that followed. By contrast, the Trump administration is taking the issue seriously. To that end, today I am announcing a comprehensive strategy to combat avian influenza. The Agriculture Department will invest up to $1 billion to curb this crisis and make eggs affordable again,” Rollins wrote for the Wall Street Journal.
An outbreak of bird flu contributed to elevated retail egg prices in the first five months of 2025, as farmers were forced to cull egg-laying hens to prevent the spread. Mark Jordan, the executive director of agricultural research firm LEAP Market Analytics, said that a slowing spread of the infection helped to boost the supply of eggs later in the year.
The federal government pays “indemnity” to farmers for birds that are culled, but they do not pay for birds that die naturally from the flu. This encourages farmers to report outbreaks and cull quickly. USDA indemnity payments compensate poultry owners for birds and eggs destroyed due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) to prevent further spread.
The Trump administration had also elected to import eggs from countries like Turkey, South Korea, Brazil, Honduras and Mexico to combat high domestic prices.
Continuing a century-old tradition, this year, the White House is prepared to use 40,000 real eggs for this Monday’s Easter Egg Roll, according to reports from the Associated Press. The massive supply of eggs, typically donated by farmers through the American Egg Board, will be hard-boiled and dyed in vibrant colors for the thousands of children expected to gather on the South Lawn.
Despite the logistical scale of the event, organizers have maintained the use of real eggs as a nod to the event’s agricultural roots, even as modern iterations of the celebration increasingly incorporate commemorative wooden eggs as keepsakes.
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