Indiana Governor Mike Braun introduced the “Make Indiana Healthy Again” program on Tuesday, focusing on welfare spending limits and work requirements for recipients.

The program includes nine executive orders, including work requirements for SNAP recipients and a ban on purchasing candy and soda with benefits.

Other orders call for research on food dyes, chronic diseases in children, and access to local foods. Here’s the full list of what the orders call for:

-Putting “able-bodied SNAP recipients… on the path to filling one of Indiana’s 100,000+ open jobs that require no prior experience.”

-Reinstating income and asset verification for SNAP recipients

-Calls for a federal change to SNAP to make it more “entrepreneurial”

-Removing candy and soda from the items SNAP benefits will carry

-Requiring disclosures of food dyes in foods

-Launches a “comprehensive study of diet-related chronic illness”

-Tries to “increase access to direct-to-consumer food from local Indiana farms”

-Establishes the Governor’s Fitness Test and School Fitness Month

-Cracking down on Medicaid eligibility errors

State Rep. Maureen Bauer (D-South Bend) is not a fan of this health announcement:

“In 2023, the Indiana General Assembly made a historic investment in Indiana’s public health by funding Health First Indiana at $75 million in fiscal year 2024 and ramping the program up to $150 million in fiscal year 2025. Gov. Braun’s ‘Make Indiana Healthy Again’ announcement today rings hollow – in his budget request, he decreased this critical, needle-moving funding by $50 million each fiscal year. In 2025, all 92 counties in Indiana opted into the Health First Indiana funding, and with these cuts, we are ‘Making Indiana Sick Again.’ Research shows that in just preventative health services made possible by this funding, the state saved $95 million. It’s not leadership to bring your D.C. friends in for a flashy announcement but then fail to put your money where your mouth is when it comes to actually funding local public health programs,” said Bauer.