As the price of eggs reaches record highsfc188, the federal government is looking into importing more eggs from other countries and increasing funding for efforts to combat the spread of avian flu, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.

The measures, announced by the department’s secretary, Brooke L. Rollins, in multiple news appearances, do not appear to deviate significantly from the Biden administration’s approach, and their effect remains to be seen.

Even as the department offered few details, Ms. Rollins said the United States was in talks with several countries to immediately secure egg imports as a short-term solution. The department will also provide up to $1 billion in additional funding,ph444 games Ms. Rollins wrote in an opinion essay published on Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.

That includes distributing up to $500 million to egg producers to enhance disease prevention measures, $400 million in financial relief to farmers whose flocks are affected by the flu and $100 million toward research and development for vaccines and therapeutics.

The Agriculture Department also said it would look to minimize the elimination of flocks affected by the flu and expedite the replacement process.

The Trump administration has made clear that the skyrocketing price of eggs is a priority. “Eggs are a disaster,” President Trump said during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

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Mr. Trump would be 82 on Election Day in 2028, older than President Biden is now. This year’s election is already his third consecutive time being the Republican nominee, after he won in 2016 and lost in 2020. In the modern party system, only Franklin Delano Roosevelt has ever received a major party’s nomination four times, though a handful have matched Mr. Trump with three.

The Republican preparations have taken place at Mr. Vance’s home in Cincinnati and in online sessions with members of his own inner circle and Jason Miller, a Trump campaign strategist. Mr. Vance’s team also pointed to his frequent media interactions on the campaign trail as helpful prep for the debate spotlight. Mr. Vance has offered a potential preview of his debate strategy by repeatedly questioning Mr. Walz over his military service and attacking him as an out-of-touch liberal.

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