What it does.
Kansas schools can serve whole and 2% milk again. President Trump signed S. 222 into law on January 14, 2026, restoring the dairy options that 2010 USDA guidance had removed.
Doc was the lead Senate sponsor and built a ten-senator bipartisan coalition behind the bill. The House companion passed by an overwhelming bipartisan vote before the Senate version cleared and went to the President.
The case for it: the nutrition science no longer supports the low-fat-dairy emphasis that drove the original removal. Kids who drank whole and 2% milk at school for fifty years before 2010 were not the public-health problem. Putting the option back also routes margin to dairy producers. Kansas has roughly 60,000 dairy cows, primarily in the southwest.
Direct demand for Kansas dairy producers, primarily in the southwest. Also a tangible early-Trump-term legislative win Doc delivered in the first year of the new Congress.