White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the Biden administration contributed to the high cost of eggs after directing 100,000,000 chickens be killed.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday that the high prices of eggs is directly related to a lack of chicken supply which the Biden administration contributed to.

White House reporter for the Washington Examiner, Christian Datoc, asked the final question at this term's first WH press briefing about the increasing cost of eggs. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt answered: "We also have seen the cost of everything -- not just eggs,

At her first White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made an unusual claim about inflation that has stung American shoppers for years: Leavitt said egg prices have continued to surge because “the Biden administration and the department of agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens,

Shoppers in some parts of the country are finding empty egg shelves in their local grocery stores. And some grocery stores are limiting how many cartons shoppers can buy.

The price of eggs has been going up and experts expect it to keep rising. The average cost of a dozen white eggs in California is up .72 cents this week at to around $8.76 a dozen. Arizona is seeing a similar spike.