At least six states are urging federal regulators to revisit a decades-old ban on buying rotisserie chicken with food stamps, an effort that has gained bipartisan momentum as Republicans have lined up behind the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.
Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture this year for permission to allow purchases of rotisserie chicken or other hot, prepared food through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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