Trump administration releases long awaited MAHA roadmap [View all]

Source: Politico

09/09/2025 02:05 PM EDT
Updated: 09/09/2025 03:09 PM EDT


The Trump administration’s highly anticipated policy strategy to improve children’s health outcomes targets ultra-processed food, vaccine use and exposure to chemicals but doesn’t go as far as some industry groups feared in proposing new regulations.

The Make America Healthy Again Commission report, released Tuesday, largely mirrors the draft plan officials shared with industry representatives last month.

It stops short of restrictions on pesticide use, focusing instead on changes like reforming FDA regulatory pathways, investigating food ingredients, modernizing American vaccines and improving the childhood vaccine schedule. In some areas, it advances long-held industry priorities that public health advocates say could increase the very health risks that have fueled the MAHA movement, such as accelerating reviews of new chemicals.

The final strategy represents a significant win for the farm industry, which successfully lobbied the White House and President Donald Trump to temper Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal to crack down on common agriculture production practices. The document bookends an error-ridden May report that laid out what the Trump administration sees as the root causes of children’s growing rates of chronic disease.

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