Over the course of his year in the Cabinet, Kennedy has racked up major wins for his Make America Healthy Again movement by pushing the limits of his executive authority.
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But he has not been able to rewrite the country’s laws in a way that would make any of those changes durable. Whoever replaces him as health secretary can reverse his wins as quickly as he achieved them. Already his vaccine and food policy moves have prompted lawsuits and petitions that could reverse them even before Kennedy leaves office.
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Kennedy’s aversion to regulation, his own aides have acknowledged, is about avoiding the long, drawn out procedures required to write them. Kennedy also knows there’s little prospect Congress will help him, given pushback from the public health establishment, food and medical industries to his ideas.
Kennedy’s second year will likely determine whether his MAHA agenda hardens into GOP orthodoxy, or whether the MAHA-MAGA alliance fades as a temporary compact of election-year opportunism.
