The MAHA Moms Who Helped Elect Trump Are Out of Patience
June 07, 2026 | Source: POLITICO | by Cheyenne Haslett
The Make America Healthy Again coalition, made up largely of women who followed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the MAGA fold, has reached the end of its rope with the Trump administration.
Now many among the group of vaccine skeptics and healthy food crusaders say their vote is up for grabs in the midterms after a string of perceived losses on pesticides and chemical regulations, not to mention disappointing leadership picks and an unpopular war in Iran.
“We thought we were getting a different administration that wanted to stand up to special interests, stand up to the pharmaceutical industry, stand up to the food companies, stand up to Big Ag, Big Chem. And that is not what we got. What we have right now is business as usual,” said Vani Hari, a leader in the MAHA movement known as Food Babe who rose to prominence through her fight against chemicals in food.
But the administration is banking on holding the MAHA coalition, even though the White House knows it hasn’t been able to make its constituency entirely happy, said an administration official and a former administration official, both granted anonymity to discuss the sentiment.