Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council, slammed a reporter outside the White House on Thursday who questioned whether the prices of eggs were really falling.
The exchange happened after a reporter asked if he had any updates on a program that he and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins instituted to help solve the problem that was caused by an outbreak in bird flu late last year.
“Yeah, they’re down $2.50 a dozen,” he said. “And I went to the grocery store, as I do every Saturday, because I’m the one who likes to shop at my family because I get to see all the prices. And the egg prices in D.C. were actually down quite a bit more than $2.50 a dozen.”
When asked how he knows that the Trump administration’s efforts were responsible for the decline, Hassett responded: “Because if you look at the data on the culling of chickens, it’s basically stopped,…
