Tom Cotton Targets Bureaucratic Red Tape on Eggs

Sen. Tom Cotton pushes regulatory reform bill to cut egg prices

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is cracking open a plan to tackle soaring egg prices with a bold new bill.

Cotton’s proposed legislation, dubbed the Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025, seeks to ease the burden of high egg costs by reshaping federal regulations to boost supply through surplus broiler hatching eggs redirected as pasteurized liquid egg products, as Fox News reports.

Egg prices have been a rollercoaster, hitting record highs of over $6 a dozen by March earlier this year, leaving consumers shell-shocked at the checkout. While prices have eased since then, the sting of those peaks still lingers in kitchen budgets across the nation. According to the USDA, large white eggs dropped about 17% to an average of $1.91 per dozen in the first week of December, though some markets like California remain stubbornly pricey.

Cotton isn’t just scrambling for attention -- he’s aiming to slice through what he sees as unnecessary government overreach in egg handling rules. His bill would push the FDA and USDA to rewrite policies from the Biden administration, allowing surplus eggs meant for broiler chicken production to enter the food supply instead of going to waste.

"Arkansas consumers have paid higher egg prices and faced egg shortages because of bureaucratic red tape that forces farmers to throw out hundreds of millions of usable eggs each year," Cotton told Fox News Digital.

"My bill will cut these excessive regulations and lower egg prices," Cotton added to Fox News Digital. If only every politician could deliver such a straightforward recipe for relief, we might not be so hard-boiled about government inefficiency.

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