President Trump’s administration is banning junk food and sugary drinks from SNAP.
And that is growing from state to state!
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins signed the first in Nebraska with Gov. Jim Pillen.
Indiana and Iowa will be next, with half a dozen more on deck.
Big Food isn’t going to be happy about this.
'Half a dozen' more states to ban soda, junk food purchases with food stamps, Trump Agriculture secretary says https://t.co/i8p3xB42dB
— Trump To Save America (@JJDJ1187) May 22, 2025
Fox News reports:
Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said during a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) event Thursday that the Trump administration is making history with its approval of numerous waivers that will eliminate junk food from food stamp programs.
Rollins was in Nebraska on Monday to sign the first alongside Republican Gov. Jim Pillen. She has also signed a waiver for Indiana and Iowa, “with half-a-dozen more coming down the line,” she said.
“We are on track to sign multiples of snap waivers to get junk food and sugary drinks out of our food stamp system,” Rollins said at the Thursday afternoon event, centering around the release of a 69-page report from the Trump administration’s MAHA Commission on how to effect change around childhood chronic disease.
“That has never happened before under Republican or Democrat administrations,” Rollins added. “We have never made that happen before. So I am so proud and so grateful.”
On average, 42 million low-income Americans receive food stamp assistance each month, according to the MAHA report released at Thursday’s event. It added that 1 in 5 American children under 17 receive SNAP benefits.
With Nebraska’s waiver, it became the first state in the nation to bar recipients of federal food stamp programs from using the money to buy junk food, soda and other high-sugar items. The exemption will begin as a two-year pilot program, local media reported.
No more energy drinks for the kids using SNAP.
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Iowa and Indiana just scored permission to ban soda and snacks from SNAP, the program that helps low-income folks buy food.
Nebraska’s going full buzzkill next year by banning energy drinks too—so kiss that 5-Hour… https://t.co/WxKGBMxaOT pic.twitter.com/kleky3G4rl
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 22, 2025
Though the kid in me does play a quiet tune of Taps for the kids. But it’s for the best. Time to get fit, kids!
If only Arnold Schwarzenegger would change his tune, he could join team MAHA!
Also, it’s curious to see which accounts are pushing back against President Trump on this:
BIG SODA seems to be paying off influencers to oppose a ban on using SNAP funds to purchase soda.
Since SNAP is a taxpayer funded program, the government has EVERY RIGHT to add soda to the prohibited items list.
Note: I follow all these accounts but disagree with them on this. pic.twitter.com/oe5hCwCdug
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) March 22, 2025
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