(Kush Desai, a deputy White House press secretary, told me that the leaked report should be disregarded as "speculative literature.") But MAHA boxes are also referenced in the budget request that President Donald Trump sent Congress in May. In that document, MAHA boxes full of "commodities sourced from domestic farmers and given directly to American households" are proposed as an option for elderly Americans who already get free packages of shelf-stable goods from the government.
Food and housing are absolutely related," NYC Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park tells City Limits. "When people are in a choice between paying for food or paying rent, people are going to naturally choose food."