November is looming and Republicans are eager to turn out every voter that propelled them to victory in 2024.A critical part of their winning coalition was the "MAHA Moms," a group that doesn’t neatly fit into either party but cares deeply about food safety, public health, and a clean environment.President Trump won this group in 2024 largely by joining forces with RFK Jr., who is, according to some polls, currently the most popular member of the Trump administration.
But there’s no guarantee these voters will stick with the GOP.If Republicans want to drive MAHA mom turnout, they need to champion a winning environmental-health agenda.Ultimately, MAHA moms don’t just want to be able to afford food for their families.
They want to afford good food.Because raising healthy kids shouldn’t require being rich.TRUMP TO NOMINATE DR HEIDI OVERTON AS NEXT FDA COMMISSIONERMoms across the socioeconomic spectrum have started reading ingredient labels, worrying about pesticides, cutting out food dyes, and filtering water.
RFK Jr.isn’t popular because he gets everything right, but because he was the first political leader in a long time to confront the chronic disease epidemic and question why half of the ingredients on the average loaf of bread were only intelligible to a small subset of food scientists.RFK Jr.
has had initial successes.The administration has proposed closing the decades-old loophole that allowed food companies to introduce new chemicals without telling the FDA.HHS and USDA also submitted the government's first proposed definition of ultra-processed foods, which make up nearly 60 percent of the American diet.And most recently, the EPA announced a cutting-edge study screening drinking water for over 1,400 emerging contaminants, including PFAS, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and the abortion-inducing mifepristone.For MAHA moms, these are tangible signs that someone in Washington is finally listening.BROOKE ROLLINS, DR.
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