California pampers its chickens and Americans pay the price, Trump argues in new DOJ lawsuit

The lawsuit, which was filed in the California Federal Court on Wednesday, challenges voter initiatives that passed in 2018 and 2008. They require that all eggs sold in California come from the cage -free chicken.

The Trump administration says that the law imposes the terrifying red tape on egg production and egg products throughout the country because of the huge role of the state in the national economy.

“It is one thing if California passes the laws that affect its mandate, they are another when these laws affect other countries in violation of the constitution of the United States,” US Brock Rollins said in a statement on Thursday. “Fortunately, President Trump stands against this transgression.”

Egg prices increased last year and earlier this year due to bird flu, forcing the producers to destroy nearly 175 million birds since early 2022. But prices have decreased recently. While the Trump administration claims to be credited with it, seasonal factors are also important. The influenza, which spreads by wild birds, tends to rise during spring and autumn migrations and drop in summer.

“The reference to its fingers will not change the fact that the president’s economic policies were destroyed.” “We will see it in court.”

The average national price of dozens of -class A degree eggs decreased to $ 5.12 in April and $ 4.55 in May after reaching a record number $ 6.23 in March, according to the work statistics office in the United States. But the price of May is still 68.5 % higher than the previous year.

“Trump returns to his favorite hobby: to blame California in everything literally,” said the office of the governor of the state, Gavin New Zoom, on a social media site.

Federal complaint claims that California contributed to the high prices of eggs through the regulations that forced farmers throughout the country to adopt more expensive production practices. The lawsuit also confirms that the federal government law is to regulate egg production. So it seeks to permanently prevent the California regulations that flowed from polling measures.

“The Americans in all parts of the country have suffered the consequences of liberal policies that cause great enlargement of daily elements such as eggs,” Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi said in a statement. “Under the leadership of President Trump, we will use the full range of federal law to ensure that American families are free of repressive regulatory burdens and the restoration of American prosperity.”

While the 2018 proposal also banned the sale of pork and carrier in California from animals that were raised in cages that do not meet the minimum size requirements, the lawsuit focuses only on the egg rules in the state.

The human world of animals, which was named the Humanitarian Association of the United States when it led the passage of the proposal 12, says that bird flu and other factors paid egg prices, not animal care laws. She says that a lot of American egg industry is free from the cage due to the demand from consumers who do not want eggs from chickens confined to small spaces.

“California has prohibited the sale of eggs produced harshly for more than a decade – a law that was supported by the courts at every level, including the Supreme Court. Blame the egg prices for 2025 for the standards of caring for animals in force, that this issue revolves around pure policy, not the constitutional law,”

The American Board, which represents the industry, said on Friday that it will monitor the lawsuit with continued compliance with California laws, and that it appreciates Rollins’s efforts to support farmers in their fight against bird flu and stability in egg supplies.

“The egg farmers were respondents and officials in meeting the changing demand for eggs free from the cage, while supporting all types of egg production, and continuing to provide options in the egg issue for consumers,” the council said in a statement.