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RFK Jr. is mad that he can’t bully poor folks by enjoying soda police

Editorial Board Published March 28, 2025
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Not too long ago appointed Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has formidable plans for President Donald Trump’s administration—a lot in order that as an alternative of addressing the escalating crises inside his personal division, he’s preoccupied with meddling in others.

On Thursday, Politico reported that Kennedy’s initiative to ban meals stamp recipients from buying soda is encountering vital resistance. The first concern? The Well being and Human Providers Division doesn’t have authority over the Supplemental Diet Help Program. The meals stamp program often known as SNAP falls beneath the U.S. Division of Agriculture, which already has its fingers full attempting to handle eggflation.

Kennedy has a lot on his plate, too, between ongoing measles outbreaks and the results of slashing billions in COVID-19-related funding for state and native well being departments. However possibly Kennedy’s mind worm is dealing with these crises whereas the well being secretary moonlights because the soda police.

Since becoming a member of Trump’s Cupboard, Kennedy and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins have seemingly agreed that SNAP advantages shouldn’t be used to purchase objects contributing to weight problems. However in keeping with Politico, USDA officers are annoyed with Kennedy’s overreach, contributing to present pressure inside Trump’s inside circle—particularly amongst these selling his and Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.

“Rollins and Kennedy, they’ve both talked about this issue,” one USDA staffer advised the outlet. “Nonetheless, [HHS] is flying solo. It simply doesn’t assist to discover a joint pathway ahead

Regardless of the reported discontent at USDA, Kennedy’s crew has privately inspired state officers to hunt federal restrictions on soda purchases for SNAP recipients—a program that aids over 42 million people however stays a chief goal for Republican price range cuts.

Publicly, each departments have tried to downplay the infighting. Privately, although, they’re something however aligned. Politico reported that USDA officers are cautious of Kennedy’s direct outreach to governors and state lawmakers, whereas Kennedy’s camp believes Rollins’ crew is intentionally slow-walking the soda ban.

In a press release to Politico, USDA spokesperson Audra Weeks dismissed allegations that Rollins’ company is obstructing the initiative.

“Where improvements can be made to encourage healthier decisions and healthier outcomes, the Department stands ready to support those improvements,” she mentioned. “This notion that USDA is obstructing is nothing more than inside-the-beltway nonsense.”

Kennedy first proposed the concept of banning sure merchandise, together with sweet and soda, for SNAP customers again in February, when he was first confirmed as well being secretary.

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Let’s hope this meals police nonsense fizzles out. But when Kennedy and Rollins can handle to set their egos apart and hammer out an settlement, it could be the primary occasion of a presidential administration approving a ban on particular meals objects for SNAP recipients. A number of Republican-led states have already pushed laws to restrict meals stamp purchases of “junk food,” but no federal ban has ever been efficiently applied.

There’s a purpose for that, although. These piecemeal bans fail to deal with the larger difficulty: More healthy meals choices stay prohibitively costly (with grocery costs projected to rise much more this 12 months). Moreover, altering SNAP’s meals necessities isn’t as easy as it might appear, significantly within the absence of established precedents.

“There are very real feasibility concerns about these types of proposals and how a state would actually implement a project like this,” Katie Bergh, a senior coverage analyst on the Heart on Price range and Coverage Priorities, advised Politico. “This is something that in reality tends to be much more complicated than it seems at first blush.”

Hopefully, the coverage challenges show simply intricate sufficient to maintain Kennedy and Rollins spinning their wheels, consumed by forms and purple tape, earlier than shifting on to the following dumb concept.

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