The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”

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Based on related reporting.

Related reporting says Leavitt blamed Biden and USDA for the chicken deaths, and that about 108 million commercial egg-laying chickens had died since the avian-influenza outbreak began in 2022, through the virus or culling. It adds that culling is used to prevent the virus from spreading and was also USDA policy during Trump’s first term.[S2]