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Y'all voted for this.
A bunch of morons in the Trump administration.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is continuing the destruction of freedoms.
“Rollins and Kennedy, they’ve both talked about this issue,” a USDA staffer told the outlet. “However, [HHS] is flying solo. It just doesn’t help to find a joint pathway forward.”
The department is slashing over 10,000 jobs.
The announcement marks one of the largest mass firings since President Donald J. Trump took office and tasked each Cabinet department to work with the White House DOGE office and its de facto leader, Elon Musk. The HHS announcement includes "doge" in its URL.
The HHS said the firings would save taxpayers $1.8 billion a year. With previous reductions and early retirements, HHS will have slashed nearly 20,000 workers. In a video announcing the move, Kennedy said HHS had grown too large while not going enough to improve the nation's health outcomes.
"HHS is a sprawling bureaucracy that encompasses literally hundreds of departments, committees, and other offices," Kennedy said in a video posted on X. "You know how bureaucracies work — every time a new issue arises, they tack on another committee. This leads to tremendous waste and duplication, and worst of all, a loss of any unified sense of mission."
Kennedy said the agency is creating an Administration for a Healthy America that would combine multiple agencies, including the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, into one entity.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's mission would be refocused on preventing epidemics, he said.
The HHS and Department of Agriculture are considering a ban on sodas. They are targeting low income and food assistance.
That will certainly drive lobbyists and companies out to push Republicans to reject it.
He also is pushing to ban soda to recipients of food assistance.
We give billions to Israel to commit genocide, watch Jeff Bezos spend millions on his extravagant wedding, allow a misleading agitator like Sean "Softball" Hannity get paid millions to run his mouth and give Trump as pass on criminal accountability.
Yet, we want to ban working class, the struggling class and the poor class from drinking soft drinks.
Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Dr. Pepper/7-Up and Anheuser-Busch will certainly fight the Trump administration.
The main problem: HHS isn’t even in charge of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
While both Kennedy and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins have said that federal aid should not be used to buy products that cause obesity, USDA officials are irritated at Kennedy’s encroachment, leading to a behind-the-scenes split in the Make America Healthy Again drive, sources told Politico.
Kennedy’s aides have allegedly encouraged state officials to ask the federal government to limit soda purchases for beneficiaries of SNAP, which feeds 42 million low-income people across the country.
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“Rollins and Kennedy, they’ve both talked about this issue,” a USDA staffer told the outlet. “However, [HHS] is flying solo. It just doesn’t help to find a joint pathway forward.”
Rollins reportedly voiced support for the sugary drinks ban during a private White House meeting with MAGA influencers earlier this month, which Kennedy also attended.
“The top item that food stamps support through taxpayer dollars: Sugary drinks, to a group of children that come from a lower socioeconomic ladder that are in many ways from very impoverished families,” she said, according to Politico. “And yet, that’s the number one thing our food stamp program is buying.”
Kennedy said in a Fox News interview that low-income communities were being “poisoned” by soda drinks. “We shouldn’t be subsidizing them,” he said. “They’re the ones with the worst chronic disease burden, and we are literally poisoning those neighborhoods.”
Both departments denied to Politico that there was any friction over the issue.
“Where improvements can be made to encourage healthier decisions and healthier outcomes, the Department stands ready to support those improvements. This notion that USDA is obstructing is nothing more than inside-the-beltway nonsense,” USDA spokesperson Audra Weeks said in a statement.
