This is about SNAP, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program. Right now they're trying to cut this program and they're using "health" as a pretense to do it. For reference, the maximum benefit for each person is around $200 per month give or take.

People don't eat healthier when they have less money to spend, even if you don't let them spend it on cookies. Having a healthy diet with variety costs money.

One thing the program already does in a lot of places is double your credit if you use it at a participating farmer's market. So here's the MAHA agenda I propose.

I would increase the allotment for everyone by 30% across the board, which is a little less than the pandemic bonus was. I would heavily promote the farmer's market program that already exists, including with locations and hours. And I would do little recipe circulars with nutrition information, because sometimes people need an idea or whatever but they don't go looking for it. We're calling this EBT: the Eating Better Today act.

One thing you have to remember about food assistance is that it supports businesses. That money doesn't disappear, it supports farms and stores. There are already work requirements. It's a program that keeps people physically able to work and that keeps job providers operational. Everybody wins, and we can make people healthier too.