Iowa cannot restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients from using their benefits to buy certain foods, such as pop and candy, a federal judge ruled. The Monday, June 22, ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson strikes down federal waivers in Iowa, Colorado, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia that restricted which foods SNAP participants could buy with their funds. Jackson wrote in her ruling that U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins relied on the wrong section of federal law to justify granting the waivers and "sidestepped" the section, 2026(k), that sets out the requirements such waivers must meet. Tap the link in our bio for more on this story. #Iowa #IApolitics #IAlegis