President Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission was pitched as a bold effort to drain the swamp and restore scientific integrity in health policy. But as Market Institute President Charles Sauer argues in The Center Square, the effort may already be off track.
Sauer warns that the Commission—tasked with shaping major federal health reforms—has so far operated in the dark, without public input or scientific transparency. While MAHA is supposed to eliminate government waste and reduce bureaucratic influence, it risks replacing one set of insiders with another.
“It’s not good enough to purge the federal bureaucracy and reform government while opening the door for crony influence from the other direction.”
Sauer raises red flags about the Commission’s reliance on advisors whose wellness business interests align too neatly with the emerging “science” that’s being favored in the report. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers and voters alike are concerned that these policy shifts could undermine food security, inflate grocery prices, and ignore the FDA’s gold standard for evidence-based health decisions.
Republican lawmakers have asked some members of the Trump administration to remain cautious, worried that there is overextended influence by conspiracies that will harm the nation’s food security, as well as the economy.
As the Commission finalizes its recommendations, transparency, scientific integrity, and public accountability must come first—not backdoor influence and unvetted ideologies.
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