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Some MAHA backers grow frustrated with Trump's health policies

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When he left the presidential race, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. galvanized his supporters to vote for Donald Trump. Trump promised to let Kennedy "go wild" on health care policy. But as fans of Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again movement have learned, that promise has limits. And now some MAHA voters are feeling disillusioned. Ali Rogin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

When he left the presidential race, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. galvanized his supporters to vote for Donald Trump, which helped to propel Trump back to the White House.

0:09.3

The president promised to let Kennedy go wild on health care policy. But as fans of Kennedy's Make America Healthy again or Maha movement have learned, that promise has limits.

0:23.6

And now some Maha voters are feeling disillusioned. Ali Rogan recently spoke to some of them.

0:26.6

I was on a bridge during rush hour.

0:29.6

Ohio mom, Nancy Fuller, was waving the flag on the nation's health problems

0:34.6

long before she supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president.

0:39.0

Her motivation, her son, Steve, now 33, a visual artist with autism and epilepsy.

0:46.5

Steve's art is so unique. And what's fascinating for most artists to appreciate is that

0:54.0

there is no draft.

0:56.1

As a child, Steve was nonverbal, and doctors warned he would have a lower quality of life.

1:01.6

Fuller says they had few answers, so she sought them out herself.

1:05.6

I know that your journey with Steve has made you maaha before Maha was a slogan.

1:11.6

Exactly.

1:12.6

Steve is like a canary in the coal mine.

1:15.6

He's very sensitive to toxicities in our air, food, and water.

1:21.6

And he's singing and he's calling out to be helped.

1:28.3

Most American children can no longer go fishing with their father and come home and safely eat the fish.

1:34.3

Fuller began following Kennedy as his profile rose as an environmental lawyer and activist,

1:40.3

speaking out about clean water and pesticides, including against agrochemical company Monsanto,

1:46.0

creator of the herbicide Roundup.

1:48.0

Kills the root kills the weed.

1:50.0

In 2018, Kennedy helped win an almost $300 million settlement for a man who blamed his cancer on Roundup's active ingredient, glyphosate.

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