News report (YouTube video) covering President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting where cabinet members outlined near-term priorities: USDA plans to mitigate bird flu and lower egg prices (with measures to support egg farmers and potential price reductions beginning by spring); Interior emphasizes energy-independence policies and operations beginning in Alaska; EPA announced a planned 65% spending reduction; HUD reported a DOGE task force that found $260 million in savings. The cabinet is preparing for the upcoming joint address to Congress.
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Wednesday, President Donald Trump gathered his cabinet for its first ever meeting. Following an hour long Cabinet meeting, the President's cabinet came out and spoke to gray media about their top priorities for the next four years.
Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is outlining a new strategy she says will mitigate the spread of bird flu and lower egg prices. Investing money to all of our egg farmers on biosecurity measures, working to ensure that if they are depopulated, how we repopulate them quickly, how we import and then putting some research into the. The USDA does say we could start to see those egg prices come down as early as spring.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says the President is laser focused on policies which will lead to the country's energy independence. He says operations are already getting underway in Alaska.
President Trump has directed us cut through the red tape and get it built now. It improves the security for us. It helps bring revenue back into the treasury to pay down our debt.
He believes President Trump will will win a Nobel Peace Prize by leveraging US Energy to end wars.
The Environmental Protection Agency will reduce its spending by 65%.
We have been looking at some of.
The grants that have been going out.
The door to identify grants that should be canceled. His agency has already canceled more than $1 million worth of media subscriptions.
We have a DOGE task force at HUD. We found $260 million in savings and contracts.
There's a sense of urgency around that table. The President's Cabinet already looking ahead to next week's joint address Congress, where the president will lay out his legislative priorities for the next year.