The Trump administration on Tuesday presented a “Make America Healthy Again” plan to tackle rising chronic disease, a paramount issue for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., issuing what it termed a strategy report that’s largely aspirational in nature and in places lacks details or citations for its claims.
The 20-page document, titled “Make our Children Healthy Again,” outlines an approach to remedy childhood illness by improving diet and adding physical activity while reducing “overmedicalization” and chemical exposure. It calls for increasing research, while also hitting Kennedy’s cornerstone demands for a new vaccine framework and cracking down on conflicts of interest.
Kennedy, though, is already facing a major challenge: Congress is divided on whether to support his efforts, partly due to controversial decisions to reduce vaccine availability. Senate appropriators, for example, provided no dedicated funding for the Administration for a Healthy America in their fiscal 2026 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill. The newly created division under HHS would coordinate the initiatives laid out in the report. It would consolidate some functions of the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and several other agencies.
