Agriculture Secretary Says New Dietary Guidelines Are Coming Later This Year

Brookeโ€ฏRollins tells House panel she and RFKโ€ฏJr. will replace Biden-era draft with simpler guidance by โ€˜early fall.โ€™

U.S. Agriculture Secretaryโ€ฏBrookeโ€ฏRollins told the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday that the Trump administration will discard the draft 2025โ€“2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans produced under Presidentโ€ฏJoeโ€ฏBiden and issue a scaledโ€‘down version by โ€œearly fall.โ€

Rollins said she is working closely with Health and Human Services Secretaryโ€ฏRobertโ€ฏF.โ€ฏKennedyโ€ฏJr. on the rewrite. She said the project is part of a broader push to โ€œMake America Healthy Againโ€ while boosting domestic farmers.

โ€œOur Secretary Kennedy and I are working on that together as we speak,โ€ she told lawmakers. โ€œYouโ€™ll see by the end of this yearโ€”hopefully early fallโ€”the new set of dietary guidelines coming out from our two agencies, and I think you will be very, very pleased, it will be very simple. It will speak directly to the American family.โ€

During more than two hours of testimony, Rollins said the existing 400โ€‘plusโ€‘page draft is too complex for families and too timid in supporting homeโ€‘grown food products.

The new document will โ€œsupport our local farmers and producersโ€ and ensure that milk and other โ€œnutrientโ€‘denseโ€ staples remain prominent, she said.

The guidelines, updated every five years, underpin nutrition standards for school meals, the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.

The 421โ€‘page draft released in January by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee urged Americans to โ€œeat less meat,โ€ elevate plantโ€‘based proteins, stick to lowโ€‘fat dairy, and made no firm recommendations on ultraโ€‘processed foods. That framework drew fierce pushback during a publicโ€‘comment hearing, where meat producers, some nutrition scientists, and advocacy groups faulted what they called weak science and undue industry influence.

Rollins said the Biden-era draft would not be discarded entirely but would be overhauled to fit President Donald Trumpโ€™s agriculture agenda, which emphasizes farmer profit, reduced regulation, and a โ€œbuy Americanโ€ approach to federal food spending.

Byย Chase Smith

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