You probably remember the big promises from the Make America Healthy Again movement. Cleaner food, fewer pesticides, no more artificial dyes on the shelves. Eighteen months into the Trump administration, supporters of the movement have started keeping score.
MAHA advocate Tiffany Cianci released an independent scorecard on October 8, 2026. It evaluated 42 pledges from President Donald Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to The Daily Beast.
Of those, 37 were graded as broken, 5 as partially kept, and none as fully delivered.
The categories covered pesticides, clean air and water, agency appointments, family farms, and healthy food for children.
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The scorecard faulted the administration for approving pesticides it had promised to restrict, for allowing more glyphosate to reach the market, and for weakening mercury emissions rules.
It also cited rollbacks to drinking water limits on PFAS, often called "forever chemicals." Former industry lobbyists Nancy Beck and Kyle Kunkler were appointed to agency oversight roles, which the scorecard flagged as broken "drain the swamp" pledges.
Where the administration says it delivered
The White House has pointed to a different list. In the official HHS statement from August 2026, reprinted on Christian Newswire, 27 large food companies had pledged to remove artificial dyes. 38 states had introduced or passed laws limiting synthetic food dyes.
New federal dietary guidelines encourage more protein and fewer ultra-processed foods. The administration also helped push whole milk back into school cafeterias.
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But the dye removals announced so far are voluntary rather than mandatory. Many of the pledged rules on pesticides and food additives have not been issued, according to the scorecard.
What MAHA supporters are saying
Cianci told NBC News that supporters had seen "not just a lack of interest" from the administration, "but a blatant slap in the face."
Kelly Ryerson, a MAHA advocate known as "Glyphosate Girl," said the administration's actions had worked "really in opposition to everything that we hoped and everything that Trump promised."
Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, described the split inside the MAHA coalition as a "gaping fissure."
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The scorecard dropped three weeks before the November 2026 midterm elections, with pesticide and food-dye rules still the most-cited unfinished items on the MAHA list.
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This article is made and published by Aksel Kryhlmand, who may have used AI in the preparation.