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MAHA Split On Whether Trump Admin Is Actually Making America Healthy Again, New Poll Shows

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Voters — including those aligned with the MAHA movement — are divided about whether President Donald Trump’s administration is doing enough to fulfill his vow to “Make America Healthy Again,” according to a Politico poll released Monday.

The latest Politico poll shows that 41% of respondents who voted for Trump in the 2024 election think his administration has not done enough to actually make the U.S. healthier. Meanwhile, 40% said the administration has done enough to fulfill this goal, and 19% were undecided, the survey shows. 

Among self-described MAHA supporters, 47% believe Trump’s administration has not done enough to make the country healthy again, while 45% said it has done enough and 8% said they did not know, according to the poll. Overall, 52% of voters said the administration has not done enough to improve U.S. citizens’ collective health, compared to 26% who think it has done enough and 22% who were undecided, per the survey.

“The MAHA movement in the [2024] campaign cycle started with a lot of energy, and did create more energy for these types of issues that previously wouldn’t have been associated with the GOP,” Abby McCloskey, a GOP policy adviser, told Politico.

“Since then, I think the energy has trickled off from the perspective of, what is the federal government going to do about this?” she added.

Of those surveyed, 47% said they back the MAHA movement, including about a third of voters who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 and roughly one third of Americans who plan to vote for Democrats in November’s midterms, according to the poll. Meanwhile, 70% of voters who backed Trump in 2024 say they support the MAHA movement, the poll shows.

In February 2025, Trump established a MAHA commission aiming to “address the childhood chronic disease crisis” in the U.S. Almost 1-in-3 people ages 5 to 25 in the U.S. are estimated to have pediatric-onset conditions that “significantly affect their lives,” the University of California, Los Angeles Health reported in March 2025.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has maintained that “under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HHS is taking bold, decisive action to reform America’s food, health, and scientific systems to identify the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”

However, Trump suggested on Sunday night that it is “possible” he may replace his nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, a MAHA favorite whose nomination is currently stalled in the Senate, Politico reported Monday.

Politico’s poll was conducted by Public First from March 13 to 18, and surveyed 3,851 U.S. adults online. Results were weighted by age, race, gender, geography and educational attainment.

The survey’s overall margin of sampling error is plus or minus 1.6 percentage points, while smaller subgroups have higher margins of error.