Mike Pence has split with President Donald Trump once again. Giving voice to anti-abortion advocates increasingly frustrated with the inaction of the current White House, the former vice president is calling on his old boss to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
President Trump leafed through the MAHA report moments before its public release, scanning the document that laid the blame for chronic disease in children on everything from ultra-processed foods and a lack of exercise to toxic chemicals and overprescription of medicines.
A subversive attempt to drive a wedge between MAGA influencers and their new MAHA allies was discovered and subsequently rejected like a pathogen from the online GOP body politic. The occasion for the war that wasn’t: a push to ban sugary drinks from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
A glamorous woman in an unglamorous job, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy sits in a cavernous office that is entirely empty other than the leftover computers and keyboards still scattered about from when the last administration vacated the premises, leaving old copies of federal budgets bound in blue, red, and grey, stretching back decades and stacked nearly from floor to ceiling.
A war for the margins has raged quietly this year between Democrats, who tried to keep third-party and independent candidates off the ballot, and Republicans, who worked overtime to keep them there. One month before the election, allies of Donald Trump are already celebrating.
