U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 into law, allowing whole and 2% milk to return to America’s schools where it has been banned since 2012 under President Obama.
“This is the first bill signing of the new year, and it will ensure that millions of school aged children have access to high quality milk as we make America healthy again,” said President Trump during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office that included members of Congress who sponsored the bill, dairy farmers from around the country, and Secretaries Brooke Rollins and Robert F. Kennedy.
Rollins said students will have access to whole milk again as soon as possible. “USDA is posting today the new rule making that is necessary to get whole milk back into school lunches,” said Rollins, estimating it “should just take a few weeks.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy called the bill “a long overdue correction that puts children’s health first.”
Listen to the ceremony remarks here:
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