I'm confident we will meet this challenge because of how USDA has successfully managed other challenges in the last 14 months. Senator Baldwin, we were just speaking about eggs before the hearing began in hpai. One of our very first actions at USDA a year ago was launching a comprehensive $1 billion plan to combat avian flu. and bring egg prices down. That plan is working HPAI cases in commercial poultry and turkey flocks are down 61% over this time last year and the number of birds affected are down 46% now. (04:39–04:47)
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