Nebraska will become the first state in the nation to pull soda and energy drinks from purchases using SNAP subsidy payments.

Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen was joined by U.S. Agriculture Department Secretary Brooke Rollins announcing the first-in-the-nation SNAP waiver to eliminate taxpayer funding for those items.

“There’s absolutely zero reason for taxpayers to be subsidizing purchases of soda and energy drinks,” Pillen said in a release.

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