Trump Admin Bans Junk Food on SNAP, Turns Sugar into a Crime
KEY POINTS
- •On December 3, 2025, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced six states would ban junk food purchases with SNAP benefits starting January 1.
- •The banned items include soda, energy drinks, certain juices, prepared desserts, and candy, varying by state policy specifics.
- •Mehmet Oz stated that states enforcing these bans receive additional federal funding, expanding Trump administration’s 'Make America Healthy Again' agenda.
In a dazzling display of nutritional heroism, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins rallied six states—Hawaii, Missouri, North Dakota, South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee—to join a growing coalition of 12 states banning SNAP benefits from buying junk food starting January 1. Citing America’s chronic health problems, Rollins is cashing in taxpayer dollars to enforce a restrictive junk ban on sodas, energy drinks, sugary juices, candies, and desserts. Mehmet Oz, Medicare’s gladiator against sugar, sweetened the deal by announcing extra funds for compliant states, because apparently punishing poor people’s snack habits is a performance bonus. Meanwhile, 42 million SNAP recipients enjoy this new federal reshaping of their grocery carts under a program that also paused aid to Democratic states ‘not playing nice’ by revealing immigration data during the longest government shutdown ever. Truly, nothing says 'helping the most vulnerable' like federal micromanagement flavored with political spice.
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SNAP junk food bans turn America’s safety net into a sugar police state where your next candy bar is a federal felony.
Nothing says caring about public health like turning food stamps into a politics-fueled food court dictatorship.
Trump’s SNAP snack crackdown means states now get bonuses for telling poor people what’s ‘healthy’—the plot twist is everyone’s broke anyway.
Source: Axios | Published: 12/10/2025 | Author: April Rubin
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