RFK Jr. says states can bar people from using SNAP for soda
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Friday that the Trump administration would let any state refuse recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from using the money to buy soft drinks. He made the announcement in West Virginia alongside Gov. Patrick Morrisey, the first governor to say they'll take up the offer.
"The message that I want to give to the country today and to all the other governors is, get in line behind Morrisey and apply for a waiver to my agency, and we're going to give it to you. That's the way we're going to win this," Kennedy said.

Kennedy doesn't have authority over SNAP, which falls under the Department of Agriculture. But he has been the biggest cheerleader for this policy change and collaborated with others, such as Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, through his work leading Trump's Make America Healthy Again Commission, said Calley Means, a former Kennedy advisor who now works at the White House.
"This is absolutely, absolutely only possible with Secretary Rollins' cooperation, and she's been very clear that she's excited to accept these waivers," Means said.
-ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett







