US Allows Six More States to Cut Sugary Options From Food Aid

US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., approved six new state efforts to exclude unhealthy options from the federal food aid program.

The move, which adds Hawaii, Missouri, North Dakota, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, marked an expansion of the Trump administration’s efforts to block recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, from using their benefits to buy unhealthy foods, including soda, candy and prepared desserts, though specific restrictions vary by state.

Rollins has already approved requests from 12 states to curtail SNAP funds from being used on some of these ...