Kennedy’s Maha Strategy Won’t Be Publicly Released Aug. 12

Farmers, food manufacturers, chemical companies, anti-vaccine activists and MAHA moms — all waiting anxiously for the release of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s strategy for "making children healthy again" — will have to wait a bit longer.

The White House said Monday that it expected the Make America Healthy Again Commission, which President Donald Trump created in February to revamp the nation’s food supply and chronic health outcomes, to send the strategy to the president Tuesday, as required by an executive order.

However, spokesperson Kush Desai added that it will take more time to coordinate officials' schedules to release the report to the public.

The upcoming MAHA policy recommendations are expected to suggest a restructuring of the government’s response to childhood chronic diseases and will have wide-ranging implications for food, farm and health policy.

Industry groups and Kennedy devotees have lobbied heavily to affect what's in the closely watched document and had expected its public release would coincide with the executive order's deadline for sending the strategy to Trump, as was the case with an earlier report assessing the health risks facing children in May.

The White House has been hosting preview meetings with stakeholders ahead of the August report’s release, according to a person familiar with the timing who was granted anonymity to discuss the conversations.

Trump’s team has already stepped in to promise anxious farm groups that the new strategy won’t limit pesticide use and that changes to food policy won’t go beyond what Kennedy has publicly promised to do on issues like artificial dyes and ultraprocessed foods.

Still, MAHA advocates have intensified their pressure campaign to push Kennedy further on pesticide bans and vaccine restrictions, threatening to cause political problems in the midterms if they don’t get their way.