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Igel

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3. Depends on what's on the list of exclusions.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 09:21 AM
Jun 12

The bit of text that's passed the House:

(ii) Domestically unavailable products
and commodities.--Domestically unavailable
products and commodities included on a list
issued pursuant to clause (iii) with respect to
a school year and purchased by a school food
authority during such school year shall not be
used to calculate whether such school food
authority meets the requirements under clause
(i).
(iii) Updated list.--Not later than 6
months after the date of the enactment of this
subparagraph, and every 2 years thereafter, the
Secretary shall make available to school food
authorities a list of domestically unavailable
products and commodities.


If bananas are on the list, then the story says that something that might be excluded but isn't might but won't impede providing bananas to students, and people are concerned about what is definitely happen but isn't going to happen.

I'd say that the real fight isn't the law--we've had all kinds of regulations that really reduced student meal consumption for 'good' reasons, where 'good' varies a lot by president, Congress, party, and individual--but about what gets put on the list. And that's what a bureaucrat's gonna be assembling.

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