Health and Human Services (HHS) Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey promoted many aggressive health-focused reforms at Morrisey’s Friday rally.
Celebrating the signing of the bill Prohibited Morrisey, seven synthetic food dyes, has signed a waiver that requires the federal government to implement major reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Morrisey told the West Virginia crowd that he wanted to implement “job, training and education requirements for SNAP recipients.” He also signed an exemption requesting the government to remove soda. Most purchased Snap items from the program.
“If taxpayers are paying it, then try to promote health, not illness,” Morrissey said.
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Morrisey also pointed out that although he enjoyed himself, he did not choose the best health and vowed to do better. Kennedy Jr. picked up a cartoon thread and joked that he would place Morisei on a carnivorous diet and let him do monthly measurements.
“I think that’s a little more than I negotiated!” Morrissey joked.
RFK JR jokes that WV Gov. Patrick Morrisey has been put on the Carnivore diet and is released once a month.
“I think that’s a little more than I negotiated!” Morrisey chimes in. @dailycaller pic.twitter.com/pad6gectxl
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Kennedy Jr. (Related: MAGA influencers who were rewarded for publicly opposing the latest RFK Jr. initiative to make Americans healthy are said to have been paid.)
The Cabinet Secretary told the crowd that Sodarobby had met with Morrissey and he was trying to persuade her not to pass the law. He also said food lobbyists visited him to protest the reforms.
“They’re afraid of what you’re doing,” he said of the food dye ban.
RFK JR: “Two weeks ago the food company came in and met me and met me. pic.twitter.com/imenwmncuf
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Many other states have proposed snap reforms similar to what Morrissey is demanding. At the federal level, Republican Utah Senator and Republican Oklahoma Senator Josh Bretzin reintroduced the SNAP Reform and Upward Mobility Act (SRUMA) on Thursday, the Daily Caller News Foundation first reported. Sruma requires that food stamp recipients be functional during the program between the ages of 18 and 64.
Other states have proposed job requirements and remove soda from the snap, but ranked as West Virginia. Most obese states It appears to be the first state in the United States to take action to propose both.
Kennedy Jr. encouraged other states to follow Morrisey’s lead. “Look behind Governor Marissy and apply for a snap exemption from my agency.
RFK Jr. then urged “all other governors” to do exactly what the big food asked him not to do.
“Look behind Governor Marissy and apply for a snap exemption from my agency. pic.twitter.com/1zn4f6trei
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