Chuck Schumer: “The price of eggs was $2 a year ago, was $4 in November…”

“I was in Buffalo and Rochester Monday before Talking about the 300 million we all put in the budget to fight avian flu in November. Is that going to be cut? The price of eggs was $2 a year ago, was $4 in November, it's $5 to $6 in New York right now, it'll go up to $8. That's just one small cut affecting America's costs on something they're really aggravated about the high cost of the price of eggs. So this is just terrible.” (22:47–22:53)

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