The Make America Healthy Again momentum that has shaped President Donald Trump’s health policy in his second term seems to be losing steam following a series of blows to the movement’s key public health objectives.
Trump promised now-Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the 2024 campaign trail that he could “go wild” on health. Slightly more than a year in, however, fault lines are showing between MAHA activists and the broader Make America Great Again coalition within the GOP.
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On a host of key MAHA issues, ranging from vaccines and autism to weedkillers, the Trump administration has failed to deliver, according to several activists within the movement.
MAHA acolytes are also increasingly struggling to get their supporters into positions of power within HHS, including finding a permanent director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and getting Trump’s surgeon general nominee, Casey Means, through the Senate
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