Donald Trump isn’t lowering egg prices.
We’re just two months into Trump’s term, and families across Minnesota and the US are seeing egg prices go up with no end in sight. In February, the average cost for a dozen eggs in the Midwest rose to $7.50. High grocery prices are causing Minnesotans to struggle, but Donald Trump isn’t listening to our concerns. He’s busy spending time with billionaire Elon Musk and selling Teslas at the White House.
Corporations are making record profits while Minnesotans struggle.
While 1 in 6 households in Minnesota experience food insecurity, egg producers are making record profits. Cal-Maine, a top supplier of eggs in the US, reported an over $200 million quarterly profit, up from $1.2 million before the recent bird flu outbreak. The company’s CEO even admitted that the profits came from increased egg prices.
Instead of holding corporations accountable for jacking up egg prices and working to lower costs for families, Trump is lining the pockets of billionaires like Elon Musk and gutting programs like Medicaid to give massive tax breaks to big corporations
Trump and Minnesota conservatives are fueling division instead of solving problems.
Donald Trump and Minnesota conservatives are more concerned with taking away people’s reproductive freedoms and attacking trans kids than working to lower the cost of groceries and prescription drugs.
Minnesota conservatives have introduced two new bills to ban abortion this session. House File 25 and Senate File 1650, the companion bill in the Minnesota Senate, would partially defund abortion-providing organizations like Planned Parenthood. Minnesota conservatives have also introduced eight anti-trans bills that exclude a segment of the population from equal participation in public life and open the door to further efforts to erode the civil rights and protections afforded to trans people.
While conservatives in the Minnesota legislature push these cruel, divisive bills, they ignore the real challenges Minnesotans are facing — like the rising costs of childcare, health care, and housing. Instead of solving problems, they’re fueling division.
It’s more than just eggs.
It’s not just eggs that Trump is taking away. Trump and conservatives are planning to slash Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act and strip health care away from hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans. This week, the Trump administration laid off nearly 50% of the Department of Education’s employees, meaning schools might have to cut classroom programs, special education, mental health, and disability services, lay off teachers, and increase class sizes.
These plans are unpopular and don’t belong in Minnesota.
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