2026年2月20日 下午5:25 UTC / 路透社 / 作者：利娅·道格拉斯
- 特朗普的行政令被MAHA支持者视为11月中期选举的不利因素
- 肯尼迪支持该行政令以保障国家安全
- 美国主要草甘膦生产商拜耳公司因癌症风险面临诉讼
华盛顿，2月20日（路透社） – 支持卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪的美国”让美国重获健康”（MAHA）运动成员表示，本周签署的一项旨在提高国内除草剂草甘膦产量的行政令，可能会让他们在11月的中期选举中撤回支持。
肯尼迪的支持者曾在2024年帮助特朗普总统当选，而特朗普在其第二个任期内也将MAHA的优先事项纳入政策，例如减少儿童推荐疫苗数量以及在新的饮食指南中推广全食。
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政府去年因从一份8月发布的儿童健康报告中删除了关于农药的草案内容，以及环境保护署批准新农药，而遭到MAHA活动人士的批评。
周三，特朗普的行政令援引《国防生产法》，以确保国内磷和草甘膦的供应。草甘膦是一种广泛使用的除草剂，引发了数万起诉讼，原告声称其会导致癌症。
MAHA活动人士表示，他们认为特朗普的行政令违背了对该运动的承诺。该运动因健康担忧而反对草甘膦的广泛使用。
“在这项行政令之后，我觉得保住MAHA选民的支持希望渺茫，”美国再生组织联合执行董事、草甘膦使用批评者凯利·赖尔森表示。
行政令称草甘膦”对国家安全和国防至关重要，包括食品供应安全”。
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MAHA包含的选民数量估计差异很大，但在肯尼迪中止的总统竞选期间，该群体曾是他支持的重要组成部分。
特朗普的行政令紧随拜耳公司之后
特朗普的行政令出台前，美国唯一的草甘膦生产商拜耳公司本周提出了一项72.5亿美元的法律和解方案，以解决数万起指控其草甘膦除草剂”农达”导致癌症的诉讼。
这家德国公司去年8月表示，如果不进行监管改革以避免诉讼，它可能被迫停止在美国的生产。美国目前大量从中国进口草甘膦。
拜耳一直坚称草甘膦对人体安全。但关于草甘膦安全性的科学研究存在分歧，部分研究表明它可能影响内分泌系统或与癌症有关联。
United We Eat创始人兼首席执行官、肯尼迪总统竞选活动前财务经理戴夫·墨菲称该行政令是”战略错误”，可能成为选举中的不利因素。
“如果没有这些支持者，特朗普不会再次入主白宫，我们期望他能履行承诺，”墨菲表示。
肯尼迪长期以来一直批评草甘膦，他在2024年的X平台（原推特）帖子中称其是”美国慢性病流行的可能元凶之一”。他在一份声明中表示，该行政令对国家安全是必要的。
“当敌对势力控制关键投入时，会削弱我们的安全，”他未具体指明所指国家，”通过扩大国内生产，我们填补了这一缺口，保护美国家庭。”
11月选举风险
共和党控制着参议院，众议院的优势也相对较小，但11月将竞逐众议院所有席位和参议院三分之一的席位。
特朗普在移民问题上的强硬立场以及选民对持续高成本的担忧，已经显示出对共和党人在选举中的不利影响。自2006年小布什政府以来，现任总统在每次中期选举中都失去了众议院席位。
MAHA支持者在社交媒体上大量发布表达失望的帖子和评论，包括配文”我们不同意被毒害”的图片。
由MAHA组织”美国母亲跨党派联盟”（Moms Across America）发起的一份呼吁特朗普撤销该行政令的请愿书正在传播，该组织创始人Zen Honeycutt是肯尼迪的长期盟友。
请愿书称：”真正的国家安全是健康的家庭，以及下一代繁衍和繁荣的能力。只要这些普遍存在的有害除草剂仍在使用，这一点就无法实现。”
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MAHA activists warn Trump could lose their support over glyphosate order
February 20, 2026 5:25 PM UTC / Reuters / By Leah Douglas
- Trump’s executive order seen as November midterm election liability by MAHA supporters
- Kennedy supports order for national security
- Top US glyphosate producer Bayer has faced litigation over cancer risks
WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Members of the U.S. Make America Healthy Again movement that backs Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say an executive order this week to boost domestic production of the weedkiller glyphosate risks their support in November’s midterm elections.
Kennedy backers helped elect President Donald Trump in 2024, and he has installed MAHA priorities during his second term, such as reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccines and promoting whole foods in the new dietary guidelines.
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The administration drew criticism from MAHA activists last year for removing draft language on pesticides from an August report on children’s health and for the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of new pesticides.
On Wednesday, Trump’s executive order invoked the Defense Production Act to ensure the domestic supply of phosphorus and glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller at the center of tens of thousands of lawsuits by plaintiffs claiming it causes cancer.
MAHA activists said they saw Trump’s executive order as a broken promise to their movement, which opposes the widespread use of glyphosate due to health concerns.
“I don’t feel like there’s much hope after this executive order in preserving the MAHA vote,” said Kelly Ryerson, co-executive director of American Regeneration and a critic of glyphosate use.
The order says glyphosate is “crucial to the national security and defense, including food-supply security.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Estimates vary widely on how many voters MAHA includes, but it represented a large part of Kennedy’s support during his aborted presidential campaign.
TRUMP’S ORDER FOLLOWED BAYER
Trump’s order came after Bayer, the only company that produces glyphosate in the U.S., proposed a $7.25 billion legal settlement this week to address tens of thousands of lawsuits claiming its glyphosate weedkiller Roundup causes cancer.
The German company said last August that it could be forced to stop U.S. production unless regulatory changes were made to stave off that litigation. The U.S. imports large volumes of glyphosate from China.
Bayer has maintained that glyphosate is safe for human use. The science on glyphosate’s safety is mixed, with some research showing it can affect the endocrine system or linking it to cancer.
Dave Murphy, founder and CEO of United We Eat and former finance manager on Kennedy’s presidential campaign, called the executive order a “strategic mistake” that could serve as an election liability.
“Trump would not be in the White House this second time without those followers, and we expect him to live up to his word,” Murphy said.
Kennedy, a longtime glyphosate critic who in a 2024 post on X called it “one of the likely culprits in America’s chronic disease epidemic,” said in a statement that the executive order is necessary for national security.
“When hostile actors control critical inputs, they weaken our security,” he said, without specifying to which countries he was referring. “By expanding domestic production, we close that gap and protect American families.”
NOVEMBER ELECTION RISK
Republicans control the Senate and, more narrowly, the House of Representatives, but every seat in the House and a third in the Senate will be contested in November.
Trump’s aggressive approach to immigration and voter concerns about persistently high costs already show signs of liability to Republicans in the elections. Sitting presidents have lost House seats in every midterm election since George W. Bush in 2006.
MAHA supporters flooded social media with posts and comments about their disappointment, including images with the text, “we do not consent to being poisoned.”
A petition to Trump being circulated by the MAHA group Moms Across America, whose founder Zen Honeycutt is a longtime Kennedy ally, urges him to rescind the order.
“True national security is healthy families and the ability of the next generation to reproduce and thrive, which will not happen for as long as these pervasive, harmful herbicides are being used,” the petition said.
Reporting by Leah Douglas in Washington; editing by Caroline Humer, Rod Nickel
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