President Donald Trump promised to secure the southern border, deport illegal aliens, place reciprocal tariffs on trading partners to level the playing field, and bring jobs home to American shores. He has made substantial progress on all these fronts, but an additional priority was his promise to focus on improving public health under the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.
The President promised to prioritize reducing rates of childhood disease, push for research into nutrition, and work with the food and agriculture industries to improve food quality. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under President Trump’s and Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s guidance, is already launching into action. In May it released the MAHA report exposing the root cause of childhood disease, and it is encouraging states to prioritize SNAP waivers that focus on healthy whole foods and phase out petroleum-based food dyes, among other initiatives.
President Trump and MAHA’s root-cause approach to addressing health outcomes is very popular. According to a Sep. 2 The Economist/ YouGov survey, a majority of Americans have a favorable view of the MAHA movement. Americans have a favorable view of MAHA by fifteen percentage points, with 46 percent of Americans holding a favorable view of MAHA while 31 percent hold an unfavorable view of the movement.
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