As Stephen Miller takes over as White House chief of staff today, the alliance between MAHA and MAGA is falling apart with a public feud between top officials taking center stage.
In a series of interviews over the weekend, former RFK Jr. senior adviser Calley Means accused Susie Wiles and James Blair of shelving health policy to protect sugar, vape and pesticide industry interests. He says Wiles told him repeatedly that the White House needed industry money for the midterms. Blair has threatened to sue, Means is demanding that Wiles and her allies preserve their records, and Blair now says MAHA “wasn’t a top issue to the vast majority of voters in this election.”
In response, 314 Action President Shaughnessy Naughton issued the following statement:
“Republicans sold out MAHA’s agenda for industry cash to win the midterms, and they lost anyway. Now the people who built this alliance are threatening lawsuits against each other. That isn’t a movement gaining strength. It’s a marriage of convenience ending in public. Anyone who thinks the last few weeks were a win for MAHA has been drinking the peptide-laced Kool-Aid.
MAHA promised a $100 million war chest and didn’t even come close to delivering. Trump’s top political strategist now admits what our polling showed all along: MAHA was never the political force Kennedy claimed. 2026 was a healthcare election, and Republicans lost it on affordability. Voters demanded lower costs. They got Medicaid cuts and vaccine conspiracies instead. Americans want doctors and scientists making their healthcare more affordable, not corporate lobbyists jacking up their prices.
A weak movement can still do real damage while Kennedy runs HHS. This week, international health officials meet to decide whether the United States loses the measles elimination status it has held for more than 25 years, after the worst year for measles since it was eliminated. Democrats’ new majorities must hold Kennedy accountable for his attacks on public health, undo the damage he’s done to vaccines, and let scientists follow the evidence without his interference.”