An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it was working to take back the termination notices sent over the weekend to several employees who aid in the federal response efforts to the bird

“Secretary Rollins Takes Bold Action to Stop Wasteful Spending” was the headline of a USDA announcement on Feb. 14, which announced layoffs in the Agriculture Dept. Today, the agency is undoing part of those bold actions, trying to rehire employees who were working on bird flu.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that it accidentally fired multiple agency employees that were working on a response to the outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, according to NBC News. Now the agency says that it is trying to rehire those workers as quickly as possible.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scrambling to rehire workers who had been working on the government's response to the bird flu after they were fired as part of the Trump administration's mass federal firings.

The Trump administration is working to “rectify" the termination of several employees over the weekend that were working to combat bird flu, the agency said.

In a new op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins outlined a new strategy she says will mitigate the spread of bird flu and lower the price of eggs — a signature issue of the 2024 election.

Egg prices are at an all-time high and expected to get even worse for consumers, according to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projection. The USDA's latest outlook predicts egg prices will increase 41 percent in 2025 as a widespread bird flu outbreak continues to devastate egg-laying chicken flocks.

Egg prices in the U.S. are projected to rise 41.1% by the end of 2025 due to an avian flu outbreak, with 53% increases reported over the past year. (Scripps News)