Articles Tagged with ''MAHA''

Businessman Zach Lahn's surprise victory over U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra in the Iowa Republican gubernatorial primary is a glimpse of election battles ahead between Make America Healthy Again GOP candidates and more traditional Republicans. 

Agricultural industry leaders are sounding the alarm over delays at the EPA in getting dozens of applications approved for new active ingredients and new uses for already registered pesticides.

Tariff critics’ latest arguments against higher duties have been on display this week at a multi-day hearing on an unfair trade investigation into countries’ manufacturing overcapacity. Multiple food industries are now making the case that it pits the administration’s trade policy against its Make America Healthy Again objectives.

Nearly a year after nominating Casey Means to be surgeon general, President Donald Trump has withdrawn her nomination in favor of radiologist Nicole Saphier, director of the breast imaging center at Memorial Sloan Kettering in Monmouth, New Jersey.

The House approves an amendment to strip language from the farm bill that would have established federal supremacy of pesticide labeling laws over state rules. The vote is a win for MAHA Republicans and Democrats who claim the provision was a giveaway to chemical companies. 

The Iowa Legislature has passed a MAHA bill that would cement existing SNAP restriction waivers and impose new nutrition and physical activity requirements in schools.

The fate of a House farm bill that's headed for a vote this week is in question amid bipartisan pushback on a provision that would establish federal supremacy over state pesticide labeling laws.

Dozens of medical schools have committed to expanding nutrition education in their curricula. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said the initiative will result in more physicians with formal nutrition training to help prevent and manage chronic disease.