Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said her goal is to improve the health of the nearly 350,000 people in her state who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Associated Press reported.

Arkansas seeks to ban junk food like soda and candy from SNAP and lead a national push for healthier benefits to “Make America Healthy Again."

Arkansas on Tuesday became the first state to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow it to ban soda and candy from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins,