Nebraskans on the federal nutrition-assistance program known as food stamps will no longer be able to purchase soda or energy drinks with their benefits, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture accepted a waiver request from the state.
The change is “the first of its kind, and it is a historic step to Make America Healthy Again,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a statement on Monday of the change to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a federal benefit program for low-income people administered by individual states.
