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 this week 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.
