Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has sent a letter to the incoming Trump administration heads of the Health and Agriculture departments, calling for the end of junk food as part of the federal food stamp program. 

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls for changes to SNAP to eliminate junk food

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has called for an overhaul of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), urging key members of the incoming Trump administration to remove junk food items such as soda, candy, and desserts from the taxpayer-funded program.
In a recent video message posted to social media, Sanders said that redirecting SNAP spending away from unhealthy products could bolster public health and reduce taxpayer costs.
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(L-Center) A customer heads to the checkout with a shopping cart loaded with Hostess snacks at a grocery store. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) / (R) Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders appears on stage on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo... The post Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Calls For Federal Action To Ban SNAP Recipients From Purchasing Junk Food ap…

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Nearly 5,000 stores with words related to “liquor” or “tobacco” in their names accept food stamps, a Daily Wire review of government data found. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs the food stamp program, currently allows more than 3,700 stores with “liquor,” “beer,” “wine,” or “spirits” in their names to accept food stamps. Food stamps aren’t allowed to be used for alcohol, but they can be used for nearly anything edible, so the stor…

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reform its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The SNAP program provides money every month for low-income families to buy food. In a letter to USDA Secretary-designate Brooke Rollins and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sanders is asking for changes in the program to end using …

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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (yes, I know, I keep forgetting someone elected her to something too) is back on the national stage. She’s already made a name for herself in her home state of Arkansas, following in her father’s footsteps as governor. Of course, the name she’s made for herself hasn’t been great. She’s been embroiled in multiple scandals, the biggest of which all involved wasting taxpayer money. Perhaps as penitence for h…

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While Sanders has made sure Arkansas remains the only state to withhold Medicaid to qualifying new mothers for the year after they give birth, she suggests fresh, locally grown foods would be just as good.

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One governor is fed up with taxpayers subsidizing junk food—and hurting the long-term health of their fellow Americans. Food stamps—formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—“is undermining the health of millions of Americans, on the taxpayer’s dime, by encouraging families to eat highly processed, unhealthy junk food,” writes Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a letter Wednesday to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-ele…

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Make America Healthy Again: Sanders Calls for Ban on Using Food Stamps for Junk Food

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is calling for a ban on buying junk food with food stamps. Sanders sent a letter to the incoming Health and Agriculture departments, asking for a waiver to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program –– also known as SNAP. The program allows low-income families to buy a large variety of foods. However, Sanders cites a study from the Department of Agriculture that shows almost 23% of a SNAP household'…

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Arkansas Gov. Sanders calls for a ban on buying junk food with SNAP

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders sent a letter to Washington on Wednesday concerning new changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.The letter was

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