Rollins’ viral $3 meal part of larger messaging problem: Krakauer

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(NewsNation) — In a now viral interview with NewsNation, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said, “We’ve run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla and one other thing.” NewsNation media contributor Steve Krakauer tells “Morning in America” that Rollins’ theoretical meal is a solution that is “sort of detached” from most Americans’ realities.

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