A highly-anticipated White House report about childhood diseases has provoked a tug-of-war pitting farmers and some prominent Republican lawmakers against health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “Make America Healthy Again” movement ahead of its release.
Farmers and Republicans are nervous about what the report might say about glyphosate, the ingredient commonly used in pesticides sprayed on crops. Kennedy has denied the report will be unfavorable to farmers.
Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley warned that farmers have reached out to him, upset they have not been able to provide input on the MAHA report ahead of its release.
A broken clock is right twice a day, and I’d support RFK on denouncing and imposing limitations on glyphosate.
It’s the same way I feel about Trump signing the 2018 farm bill… Like ok that’s obviously good and rad even though I loathe the man and every other thing he’s done. In such interesting times it’s good to celebrate the small wins.
I couldn’t have said it better.
Trump’s greatest accomplishment was ending penny minting