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Rollins wants federal nutrition money to stop paying for sugary drinks and junk food. SNAP costs $123 billion a year, roughly $15 billion of that is spent on soda, and she says about 75% of the population on SNAP is clinically obese, so the taxpayer pays twice: once at the checkout and again for a chronic-disease bill that is already close to bankrupting state Medicaid budgets. Within the first hour of being sworn in she sent letters to all 50 governors asking for SNAP waivers, she is rewriting the dietary guidelines together with Secretary Kennedy, and she says she refuses to sit through lobbyist meetings or accept the industry's freedom argument because taxpayer dollars funding food that makes kids sick is black and white to her. She is explicit that the goal is not to shut the companies down but to realign where the dollars are spent, which puts a multi-billion-dollar, policy-driven slice of soda and junk-food volume at risk.