AXIOS November 14, 2024
A sprawling movement built around concerns over the food supply and drug industry profiteering is poised to shake up health policy in the new Trump administration — and is already stoking disinformation concerns.
Why it matters: The “Make America Healthy Again” campaign, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., blends generally mainstream views on policing food additives or expanding health savings accounts with more conspiracy-tinged ideas about corruption within the Food and Drug Administration, fluoride in water and vaccine recommendations.
While President-elect Trump only embraced its tenets late in his campaign, Kennedy and other movement leaders are now in a position to influence federal health policy.
- Trump’s picks to lead health agencies — or, as Kennedy has suggested, purge swaths...
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