Health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on tour to tout his MAHA food initiatives and drug pricing over vaccines, an issue GOP pollsters see as a liability.

During the postwar decades, American medical science reached a sort of financial equilibrium: The government would fund basic scientific research with billions of dollars in academic grants, then entrust the subsequent development of health-giving products to private enterprise.

Federal employees, Kennedy said, were promoting the “mass poisoning” of the American public. Then, in 2025, measles exploded, with more than 2,200 cases across 45 states.