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Thursday, October 8, 2026 — 12:00 noon Eastern
Explosive “MAHA Movement Scorecard” Reveals Trump Administration’s Mountain of Betrayals and Broken Promises
With midterms looming, tensions between MAHA and the administration reach a peak
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new scorecard from Tiffany Cianci, a former Kennedy campaign advisor turned influencer and advocate, compares promises President Trump and other officials made to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement with the administration’s record on healthy food, farming, and toxic chemical policy. Once a major supporter of the Kennedy campaign, Cianci has become a leading critic of the Trump administration’s food, agriculture, and environmental health policies.
The scorecard finds an abysmal string of broken commitments and betrayals: more than 85 percent of the administration’s policies and executive actions on food, environmental health, and agriculture directly contradict pledges on these issues made to MAHA. The analysis paints a clear picture of an administration that has used pro-health rhetoric while systematically undermining the health of American children and families.
“The promises made by the administration to MAHA on pesticides have been entirely broken. The EPA has worsened the toxic exposures driving the chronic disease epidemic through egregious pesticide approvals and full corporate capture of the White House. It is particularly sad, given how meaningful Trump’s legacy would be to the people of this country if he had kept the promises made to us in 2024. Those hurt most are the American farmers on the front lines of chemical exposure, who are now battling cancer and Parkinson’s disease at shocking, and entirely preventable, rates.”
“I believed deeply in the promise that MAHA represented, particularly the possibility of confronting chronic disease and building a healthier future for America’s children. But belief was never supposed to mean blind loyalty. I didn’t build TownHall to help politicians get elected; I built it to give ordinary Americans direct access to the people asking for their votes—and to hold those politicians accountable for what they promised. After two years of revolving-door appointments, lobbyist influence, and roadblocks to meaningful reform, this Scorecard is me keeping my end of that bargain. I owe it to the people who trusted my platform to hold this administration accountable where it has failed to deliver.”
For example, the scorecard cites repeated vows to “drain the swamp” and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promise to staff agencies “with honest scientists and doctors who are free from industry funding.” The scorecard then documents how the administration has further entrenched corporate and special interests in key posts overseeing health and safety, including filling the top four chemical safety posts at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with former representatives of industry groups like the American Chemistry Council.
The MAHA movement has been consistently vocal about the health harms of toxic pesticides and the need for reduced use and exposure. On the campaign trail, President Trump was quick to agree and pledge action. But in a flagrant reversal, his administration has handed a staggering number of favors to the pesticide industry over the past two years. These include:
- An executive order aimed at expanding the production of cancer-linked glyphosate — already the most widely used pesticide in the U.S.
- Approving new pesticides with “forever chemicals” in them
- Backing the pesticide giant Bayer in its Supreme Court push for immunity from lawsuits related to the company’s Roundup weedkiller
- Rolling back protections from PFAS (“forever chemical”) standards in drinking water
- Firing hundreds of scientists from the EPA’s Office of Research and Development, which provided critical expertise about how to protect human health from toxic chemicals
- Weakening protections from mercury — a neurotoxin known to impact children’s developing brains — in air pollution
“We were promised a transformation of America’s food and environmental health policies. The scorecard asks a simple question: what changed? The government has failed the MAHA parents. Children deserve real action, and not rhetoric. You cannot make America healthy while allowing children to remain routinely exposed to toxic chemicals and a food system that prioritizes industry convenience over health. The agencies responsible for protecting children must act.”
As the betrayals have mounted, tensions between MAHA and the administration have steadily risen. With midterms six weeks away, this could cause significant issues for Republicans, who see MAHA as a key electoral constituency. In farm states like Iowa, issues like rural health, rising cancer rates linked to industrial agriculture, and access to healthy food are at the center of some Congressional races.
“Families are paying more for food that makes their kids sick while family farmers are getting squeezed out of the market. The agencies that are supposed to defend us from this have been captured by the corporations they regulate. The Trump administration promised MAHA it would take on this corruption, and this scorecard shows whether it kept those promises. But this isn’t really about party lines. It’s about affordable, healthy food, holding corporations accountable, and giving every kid a shot at a healthy life.”
“MAHA voters crossed political lines to help elect an administration that promised to confront chronic disease, toxic exposure, and corporate capture. This scorecard finds that none of the 42 promises examined have been fully kept, while the administration expands agrochemical dependency, weakens protections for children, and dismantles support for farmers. MAHA’s mandate was central to the administration’s rise to power. The movement must exercise its freedom and independence to demand that those promises be fulfilled.”
While the scorecard notes a few ways the Trump administration has made partial progress toward fulfilling promises to MAHA — such as initial steps the Department of Health and Human Services has taken to reform safety rules around food additives — it tracks many specific ways the administration has contravened the MAHA agenda. Select further examples include:
- Canceling the Local Food for Schools program, taking away a critical $660 million market for small farms and ranches and making it harder for schools to put healthy local food on kids’ school lunch trays.
- Cutting thousands of staff from the Food & Drug Administration, including many with expertise in nutrition, infant formula, and food and chemical safety.
- Taking away $1 billion in funding and cutting thousands of staff that would have helped American farmers build soil health, reduce pesticide use, and transition to regenerative practices.
“Human health is inseparable from the health of soil, water, and the environment. What we do to the world, ultimately we do to ourselves.”
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