GOV'T TAKES HARD-BOILED APPROACH TO COST OF EGGS

Probes possible price-gouging

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AFTER vowing to lower the cost of eggs during his historic campaign, President Donald Trump is furious over their still skyrocketing prices and has scrambled top lawmen to crack a possible price-gouging case involving our nation's largest egg producer.

News of the federal investigation into Cal-Maine Foods, the Ridgeland, Miss.-based company that produces about 20 percent of the eggs eaten in the U.S., comes as prices reach a record level for the third consecutive month, breaking the $6 threshold for a dozen more than three times their cost in 2022.

Meanwhile, Cal-Maine pulled in a profit of nearly $510 million during its latest fiscal quarter.