MAHA Unleashes on White House After Trump Backs Pesticide
February 20, 2026 | Source: POLITICO | by Marcia Brown and Cheyenne Haslett
President Donald Trump’s Wednesday night executive order promoting production of a widely used herbicide is threatening to blow up a coalition that played a key role in his 2024 election victory.
Make America Healthy Again activists brought into the Republican fold by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are furious over Trump’s move to ensure adequate supplies of the herbicide glyphosate, a prime target of their efforts to crack down on toxic chemicals that they argue are killing Americans.
“I’m witnessing the bottom falling out on MAHA,” MAHA influencer Kelly Ryerson, who goes by the moniker “Glyphosate Girl” online, said of watching the reaction on X. “People came along on MAHA because of pesticides and foods. It wasn’t because of vaccines.”