Governor Kim Reynolds has joined Trump Administration officials to tout changes in federal food assistance programs that she’s made at the state level. Reynolds launched a food distribution network to feed low income students this summer — rather than give families 120 dollars to buy their own groceries. She also was the first governor to seek a federal waiver to block Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits or food stamps from being used to buy pop and candy. Reynolds says 20 percent of all SNAP dollars are spent on sweet drinks, desserts, salty snacks and sugar…and that’s contributing to rising obesity rates among Iowa adults and children. Reynolds joined U-S Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and Health and Human Services Secretary R-F-K, Junior at a news conference on what was dubbed MAHA or Make America Healthy Again Monday.
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