Kennedy and Trump … forged a unique coalition during the 2024 presidential campaign. As the face of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement – a riff on Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” – Kennedy brought in a diverse slice of the American electorate, including mothers, tree-huggers and health enthusiasts, who felt passionately about issues like vaccine hesitancy, nutrition, environmental safety and chronic disease.
But cracks in this relationship have begun to show, especially … after Kennedy was grilled in Congress for several days by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.
Several raised a statement from Kennedy supporting Trump’s executive order to increase domestic production of glyphosate, an herbicide that Kennedy’s health-conscious base has long fought, arguing it causes cancer.
Zen Honeycutt, founder of the MAHA-aligned advocacy group Moms Across America, said many like-minded moms were “outraged” by the decision.
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“It’s seemed to us like the chemical companies were sitting there, that they wrote [the order] for them,” she said.
