Responsible Nutrition Policy

AFPI Releases New Report on Benefits of DGAs for Health & Farmers

Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released a new Issue Brief highlighting the impact of the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Titled “Eat Real Food: How the Dietary Guidelines Help Make Americans Healthy,” the report details how the Trump Administration’s nutrition reset is aligning more than two billion taxpayer-funded meals annually with gold-standard nutritional science, emphasizing real, nutrient-dense foods like high-quality protein, healthy fats, whole milk, fruits, and vegetables.

AFPI–NM: LFC Report Shows State’s SNAP Failures Could Cost Taxpayers Up to $173 Million a Year

The America First Policy Institute's (AFPI) New Mexico state chapter released the following statement from New Mexico Executive Director Vincent Torres after the Legislative Finance Committee released its program evaluation on the state's administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP):

Updated Dietary Guidelines For Americans

No new spending - just better results. These updates focus on maximizing nutritional outcomes from existing taxpayer investments, delivering stronger health impact per dollar spent.

Eat Real Food: How the Dietary Guidelines Help Make Americans Healthy

On January 7, 2026, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025-2030 (DGAs) along with the Scientific Foundation for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, a companion document detailing the underlying nutrition science (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2026). The DGAs were lauded as the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in decades, prioritizing high-quality protein, healthy fats, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

South Dakota Governor: States Need to Come Clean on SNAP Fraud