Banning or heavily restricting certain pesticides has been a core tenet of the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement, and supporters expected the Trump administration, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as its Health and Human Services secretary, to deliver.
But a much-touted strategy report by the MAHA Commission — a Trump-mandated group led by Kennedy that is supposed to tackle the drivers of chronic disease in America — emerged this week with little to show on the issue.
Now, some of the most politically engaged MAHA faithful have a warning: They aligned with the Make America Great Again Republican Party in the last election but are not afraid to abandon it.
The commission’s plan includes an effort to “ensure that the public has awareness and confidence in EPA’s pesticide robust review procedures.”
The agency has long upheld glyphosate and atrazine’s approval and maintained there is no found link to cancer, though it has, over the years, revoked approvals or rejected new pesticides.
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That does not cut it for some of MAHA’s most vocal supporters.
