By Tom Shaw

With the U.S. midterm elections fast approaching, now is a critical time to assess whether the Trump administration’s promises have come to fruition, particularly when it comes to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative.

Tiffany Cianci has launched the MAHA Promises Scorecard to do just that. Cianci has documented instances where key MAHA advocates in the Trump administration have made promises on the campaign trail, on social media, in interviews and press releases, or via official reports and executive orders―and has worked with MAHA advocates to fact-check whether these promises were kept or not.

The stark reality? None of the administration’s promises have been fully kept. Tracking 42 of the promises the administration has made publicly relating to food and environmental health, 37 have been broken entirely, and only five have been partially kept.

Here are some of the key findings of the Scorecard:

• Instead of “draining the swamp” of corporate influences in federal health agencies, the Trump administration has brought in more lobbyists from the pesticide and chemical industries.
• Instead of protecting Americans from pesticides, the final MAHA Commission removed all recommendations relating to pesticide use. Furthermore, a February 2026 Executive Order from Trump allows Bayer-Monsanto to increase production of glyphoate herbicides while introducing various legal immunities.
• Instead of ensuring “really clean air” and “really clean water,” the administration has reduced funding and support for clearing toxic chemicals like PFAS and microplastics from water supplies, while granting clean air rule exemptions for some of the biggest polluters.
• Instead of ensuring that children have access to high-quality food, the administration has canceled the Local Food for Schools program, cut fresh fruit and vegetable benefits, and refused to ban petroleum-based synthetic food dyes.
• Instead of supporting family farms, the administration has made life significantly harder for farmers by canceling local food programs, removing funding for soil health improvements, and imposing tariffs with a negative impact on the cost of domestic production.

The Scorecard provides sources for each of the claims made, along with a list of recommended reforms at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Cianci’s scorecard is just the tip of the iceberg. The list of MAHA failures would be even greater if the report considered the promises Trump and other administration figures have made regarding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Pharma influence on healthcare policy. Catherine Austin Fitts and John Titus discuss the Scorecard and other health policy failures of the current administration in this week’s Money & Markets.

If you have friends or family still convinced that the administration intends to keep its MAHA promises, you may want to point them to this scorecard amply demonstrating how the administration’s actions speak much louder than their words. You can then share many of the resources we’ve published at the Solari Report about what people can do today to promote good health and good food for themselves and their local communities.