During a NewsNation interview on Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed food prices were falling.
Asked about that reality, Rollins ― who last month bragged about cutting food aid to low-income Americans ― suggested an affordable meal option that met her new guidelines.
“We’ve run over a thousand simulations,” she said. “It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla and one other thing. And so, there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money.”
To administration critics, that sounded like the world’s sorriest taco. They fired back on X:
