Low-income Americans could soon have new constraints on how they shop for food under bills in more than a dozen states.

As part of their Make America Healthy Again agenda, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture ...

Purchasing restrictions on food assistance benefits have gained steam under the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, but ...

Discover the full SNAP payments schedule for April 2025, updated benefit amounts by state, and why RFK Jr.'s proposed soda ban for SNAP.

Neurosurgeon and former HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson joins NewsNation to weigh in on a growing political fight over soda and ...

An Alabama lawmaker has filed a bill, HB579, that would ban the purchase of soda using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

A ban on using SNAP dollars for soda is hardly the ... Maybe then we can finally get to the bottom of the decades-long debate over whether soda bans are a good idea.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited the Arizona state Capitol on Tuesday to endorse a bill that would prohibit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from being used to buy sodas.

The Trump administration and the U.S. House of Representatives want to reduce the benefit. On Tuesday, Arkansas and Indiana ...

Arkansas on Tuesday became the first state to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow it to ban soda and candy from ...

Food stamps help more than 3 million Texans put food on the table. But proposed federal cuts—and new rules—could change that.