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USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins joined Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders today as the Governor submitted a waiver to USDA to ban soda and candy from and include hot rotisserie chicken in Arkansas’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins Thursday collaborated on their first Make America Healthy Again event during a visit to Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School in Alexandria, VA where they participated in a healthy snack time with students and met facility staff. 

Today, USDA's Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services is taking steps to end government inefficiencies by issuing a stern warning to state agencies administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, demanding immediate action to address unacceptable delays in processing applications and recertifications.

USDA announced that people recovering from recent severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides and mudslides may be eligible for food assistance through USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP). Nearly 3,000 households in four counties in West Virginia are estimated to be eligible for this relief to help with grocery expenses.

USDA announced that people recovering from the impact of recent severe storms, flooding and straight-line winds may be eligible for food assistance through USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today directed FNS to immediately clarify and enforce all rules restricting its beneficiaries to U.S. citizens and legal residents only. 

USDA today released the following statement regarding the Government Accountability Office’s review of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack’s choice to modify the longstanding SNAP obligation practice.

USDA announced that people recovering from the impact of recent wildfires and straight-line winds may be eligible for food assistance through USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.