Federal pesticide regulations are increasingly splitting the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, pitting industrial farmers against Make America Healthy Again activists.
Glyphosate, the chemical in the household weedkiller Roundup, is the most common pesticide used in agriculture, but a swath of the MAHA coalition that helped President Donald Trump win back the presidency in 2024 is disappointed in his administration’s failure to tighten regulations on the herbicide.
Reducing farmers’ dependence on glyphosate has been a key objective of environmentalists for decades, but attacks on glyphosate reached a fever pitch in the late 2010s after the World Health Organization declared in 2015 that the chemical is “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”
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A hodgepodge of advocates has pressed the administration to invest more resources in regenerative agriculture instead of relying on toxic chemicals for food production. But on the opposite side, industrial agriculture and farming association advocates have pressed the administration to protect
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