Even in the era of “Make America Healthy Again” and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calling sugar “poison,” Republicans aren’t showing any signs of backing away from propping up the sugar industry.
Both the House and Senate versions of President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation bills include the largest loan rate increases for sugar farmers in decades, a move the sugar industry has long advocated for.
“Sugar is not a poison. Our brain works off of sugar,” House Agriculture Committee chair Glenn “GT” Thompson told NOTUS. “Kennedy can have whatever beliefs he chooses to have. Obviously, I respect the fact he has his beliefs, but I know American agriculture.”