White House officials are steering the Trump administration away from vaccine reform, fearing the political consequences of emphasizing a relatively unpopular issue in a key election year.
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“We’re just kind of done with the vaccine issue,” said [one official]. “We’ve done what we want to do on the vaccine front.”
But parts of the MAHA movement are now pushing back against the strategy, insisting its cause, including some vaccine issues, has broad popularity. The work, they say, is far from over.
“We’re nowhere near done on the vaccine issue,” said Brian Hooker, chief scientific officer of the Children’s Health Defense, the highly vaccine-skeptical group that Kennedy founded.
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The Trump administration’s shift away from vaccine policy comes after it landed another blow to the MAHA movement in encouraging the production of the herbicide glyphosate, which could further strain the odd-bedfellows alliance between Trump and Kennedy supporters. The outcomes of the MAGA-MAHA debate have political implications in the midterms and could also have far-reaching impact on the nation’s public health.
