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Did Derrick Van Orden champion the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act?

Matches stated record claim. He was one of 118 cosponsors of the House version, but the bill signed into law in January 2026 was the Senate version.

Derrick Van Orden

The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says he championed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which was signed into law by President Trump and ensures children have access to whole milk.

“championed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act which was signed into law by President Trump”

Source: Van Orden for Congress

What the record shows · Jan 14, 2026

He was an original cosponsor of the House bill, H.R. 649, on January 23, 2025, one of 118 cosponsors. That bill never left the Union Calendar. The measure that became law was the Senate companion, S. 222, which became Public Law 119-69 on January 14, 2026.

Sources: Congress.gov, Congress.gov

Limit: The Act was signed into law, and he put his name to the House version on the day it was introduced. But the bill he cosponsored is not the bill that passed, and he was one of 118 cosponsors of it. A first check of this claim found the Act's name in no public law and would have called it false; the Senate bill had been enacted and not yet indexed, which is why the enacted text rather than the bill index settles it.

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