Scoop: Trump backs MAHA in heated, "shocking" Oval Office fight on pesticides

A sharp fault line in Trump's coalition came into focus during a heated Oval Office meeting last week, according to Axios. Robert F. Kennedy Junior pushed the president to sign an executive order promoting alternatives to conventional pesticides, arguing they're making Americans sick. But the American Farm Bureau Federation—representing five million farming members—warned Trump that signing could cost him their support and undermine confidence in food safety. The back-and-forth got intense, with one attendee calling it 'shocking.' Trump signed the order anyway. The Farm Bureau leader then agreed to support it, and both sides dined together on the Rose Garden patio afterward.

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