Recently released documents reveal the industry ties inside the secret White House team tasked with aligning priorities in the first “Make America Healthy Again” report.
Despite the first MAHA report calling out corporate influence as one of the factors driving childhood chronic disease across the nation, the White House asked at least two Trump administration officials with industry ties to be part of its original MAHA staff.
Nancy Beck, EPA chemicals office chief who formerly lobbied the agency on behalf of the American Chemistry Council, was one among a handful of Trump administration appointees scheduled to meet after hours to develop the MAHA report, according to a log of Beck’s meeting invitations released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The initial MAHA assessment called out “corporate capture,” or industry lobbyists’ influence on science-based regulatory decisions.
