US EditionRed states lead push for MAHA soda bans
UNITED STATES, AUG 9 – The USDA's new policy restricts sugary drinks and junk food purchases with SNAP benefits in 12 states to reduce obesity and chronic disease costs, affecting over 40 million people.
- Amid the Make America Healthy Again campaign, Rollins and Kennedy signed waivers for West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, raising SNAP bans to 12 states.
- Approving exemptions, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins granted waivers to six states including Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho and Utah earlier this year.
- Over 20% of SNAP benefits are spent on soda and junk food, with benefits funding over $24 billion annually and almost 42 million recipients.
- Controversy erupted among lower-income consumers after the bans, with one shopper saying it feels like 'sucking the fun out of life' for SNAP recipients.
- Republicans in Congress urge building on bipartisan progress to ban soda and junk food purchases with SNAP benefits nationwide, with Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Josh Brecheen leading the effort.
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Red states lead push for MAHA soda bans
Republican-led states are leading the charge to ban soda and candy from their food stamp programs, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) movement flips traditional partisanship on its head. Colorado is the only blue state to seek and have a soda ban waiver approved, and the only waiver state to propose expanding SNAP benefits in conjunction with limiting its scope. Both parties at times have expressed interest in elim…
Make the MAHA SNAP junk food ban permanent
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins signed waivers for six more states this week that authorize them to ban the purchase of soda and junk food through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as food stamps. Twelve states have now received such waivers through President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, including one Democratic state. Republicans in Congress should build on this bipartisan progress and …
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