# MAHA Betrayed: How Trump and RFK Jr. Sold Out the MAHA Movement

> How Trump and RFK Jr. broke their promises to the MAHA movement: industry donations, rolled-back chemical protections and conflicts of interest, with every claim sourced. A Protect Our Care report.

Publisher: Protect Our Care (https://www.protectourcare.org), Public Health Project. Published 2026-09-30. Every claim on the site links to published reporting or primary documents.

## Key findings
- 37%: RFK Jr.’s approval rating — stuck in the thirties ([source](https://www.protectourcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PPP-Memo-PoC-National-Poll-Aug-2026.docx.pdf))
- 16%: of Americans trust federal health information ([source](https://apnorc.org/projects/state-of-the-facts-2026/))
- $300K: buys a private dinner with Kennedy at the MAHA Summit ([source](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/20/maha-rfk-summit-walmart-anthropic-openai-01084806))
- $1,012: more per year in groceries to follow RFK’s new food pyramid ([source](https://www.scrippsnews.com/life/money/following-new-usda-food-pyramid-would-raise-grocery-bills-by-nearly-one-third))
- 68% of rural MAHA supporters say Trump administration policies had a negative effect or no impact on health where they live; 8 in 10 rural voters overall say the same. AP-KFF poll of 2,241 rural registered voters, conducted Aug. 12–24, 2026. Margin of error ±3 percentage points. ([AP](https://apnews.com/article/rural-voters-trump-maha-healthcare-midterms-poll-ce2ab1af9491e2965fba3e76bafe1648))
- $14,210,000+ in documented donations, gifts and payments tied to Trump, Kennedy and MAHA groups (itemized on the homepage).

## Pages
- [Home](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/): overview, itemized receipt, broken promises, poll, latest news
- [Chemicals & Pesticides](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/report/chemicals): MAHA moms organized against glyphosate, atrazine and forever chemicals. Trump and Kennedy handed all three back to the industry.
- [Food & Tobacco Industry Capture](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/report/food-tobacco): Food dyes are still on shelves. The FDA chief was pushed out for moving too slowly on flavored vapes. Beef and dairy insiders shaped the new food pyramid. And lettuce from a company that gave $1 million to Trump’s super PAC was linked to a deadly outbreak.
- [Broken Promise: End the Corporate Capture](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/report/corruption): Kennedy promised to end corporate capture at HHS. Since then: Mar-a-Lago dinners with drug executives, $300,000 sponsorship packages, $250,000 in gifts from a donor, and more FDA staff leaving for industry jobs.
- [Cracks in the MAHA Coalition](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/report/coalition): Women built the MAHA movement. A year in, men hold the top health jobs, and the agenda has moved from pesticides and food additives to protein, testosterone and sperm counts.
- [Broken promises](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/promises): each promise vs. what happened
- [Timeline](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/timeline): dated events with sources
- [In the news](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/news): press coverage
- [Releases](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/releases): Public Health Watch statements (live feed)
- [Full report (PDF, 2.1 MB)](https://www.protectourcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/MAHA_Betrayed-Report-9-2026.pdf)
- [Full text for LLMs](https://www.mahabetrayed.us/llms-full.txt)