S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster took to social media this week to announce his plan to ban junk food and sugary drinks under the state’s federally funded SNAP nutrition program.

“America is getting healthy, and South Carolina will do her part,” McMaster said in an Aug. 6 post . “In the next few days, I will issue an executive order directing the Department of Social Services to place common-sense limits on purchases made using SNAP benefits, formerly known as ‘food stamps.’”

The move came two days after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a public event celebrating the six states that have received federal permission to make junk food purchases ineligible — West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.

“For years, SNAP has used taxpayer dol

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