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Hot chicken is OK, but soda isn’t? Battle over SNAP scrambles red-blue politics.

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Move over, left versus right. Welcome, rotisserie chicken versus Coca-Cola. A food fight over restrictions on government nutrition assistance is generating controversies and court battles, all while scrambling traditional political boundary lines.  Legislators across the country, in states both red and blue, have spent the second Trump administration passing unprecedented restrictions and exceptions to the … Read more

Trump administration can’t block SNAP recipients in 5 states from buying soda and candy, judge rules

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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s effort to let states bar SNAP recipients from using their food benefits to buy soft drinks and candy, ruling the Agriculture Department lacked the authority to approve the restrictions. Earlier this year, multiple states received approval from the Agriculture Department to enact the ban, with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy … Read more