Republican-led states are leading the charge to ban soda and candy from their food assistance programs, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) movement flips traditional partisanship on its head.

Colorado is the only blue state to seek and have a soda ban waiver approved, and the only waiver state to propose expanding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in conjunction with limiting its scope.

Both parties at times have expressed interest in eliminating soda from SNAP, but the Trump administration is the first to encourage states to do so.

Recent attempts at soda regulation have mostly been concentrated in blue cities. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) infamously tried to ban the sale of supersized sugary drinks in 2013, prompt

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