The MAHA movement has scrambled political alliances by forcing a Republican administration to choose between placating its base — which is intent on cleaning up the food supply — or siding with powerful agriculture interests, some of which helped get President Trump elected. • The tension was apparent this month, when a leaked Make America Healthy Again Commission draft report infuriated some of the MAHA faithful by not calling for new rules governing the use of pesticides.

Why it matters: Many in today's GOP understand the political value of challenging big food and agriculture businesses and not alienating some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s grassroots base that Republicans need in the midterm elections.

Driving the news: MAHA's rhetoric has allowed Trump to cast himself as a populist an

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