Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025

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Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in full support of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025.

For over 10 years, children in schools across our country have been deprived of the many benefits of whole milk, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans has reported that nearly 90 percent of Americans do not meet their daily dairy intake recommendations.

This overwhelmingly bipartisan legislation brings common sense back to how we help the next generation stay healthy, putting vitamin D and calcium-rich whole milk in front of millions of children nationwide.

However, Mr. Speaker, children are not the only ones who stand to benefit from this legislation.

American dairy farmers produce and process some of the highest quality products in the world. With school milk accounting for more than 8 percent of fluid milk demand, this legislation allows our dairy farmers to have their products go right back into the communities from where they were produced.

I thank my colleagues in both Chambers on both sides of the aisle for helping put this nutritious, high quality whole milk back into our schools and also for bringing back common sense into how we keep Americans healthy.

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