十一月即将来临，共和党人渴望动员每一位曾在2024年助其获胜的选民。他们获胜联盟中的一个关键部分是“MAHA妈妈”（Make America Healthy Again，让美国再次健康）群体，这是一个并不完全归属于任何政党，但非常关心食品安全、公共卫生和清洁环境的群体。
November is looming and Republicans are eager to turn out every voter that propelled them to victory in 2024. A critical part of their winning coalition was the "MAHA Moms," a group that doesn’t neatly fit into either party but cares deeply about food safety, public health, and a clean environment.
特朗普总统在2024年赢得了这一群体的支持，很大程度上是因为他与小罗伯特·肯尼迪（RFK Jr.）联手，后者根据一些民调显示，目前是特朗普政府中最受欢迎的成员。但无法保证这些选民会一直支持共和党。如果共和党人想要推动“MAHA妈妈”群体的投票率，他们就需要倡导一项能够获胜的环境健康议程。
President Trump won this group in 2024 largely by joining forces with RFK Jr., who is, according to some polls, currently the most popular member of the Trump administration. But there’s no guarantee these voters will stick with the GOP. If Republicans want to drive MAHA mom turnout, they need to champion a winning environmental-health agenda.
归根结底，“MAHA妈妈”们不仅希望能够负担得起家人的食物，她们还希望能够负担得起优质的食物。因为养育健康的孩子不应该以富有为前提。
Ultimately, MAHA moms don’t just want to be able to afford food for their families. They want to afford good food. Because raising healthy kids shouldn’t require being rich.
特朗普将提名海蒂·奥弗顿（Heidi Overton）博士为下一任美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）局长。来自不同社会经济背景的母亲们已经开始阅读成分标签，担心农药问题，减少食用色素，并过滤饮用水。小罗伯特·肯尼迪之所以受欢迎，并不是因为他所做的一切都是正确的，而是因为他是长期以来第一位直面慢性病流行问题，并质疑为什么普通面包中一半的成分只有少数食品科学家才能看懂的政治领袖。
TRUMP TO NOMINATE DR HEIDI OVERTON AS NEXT FDA COMMISSIONER Moms across the socioeconomic spectrum have started reading ingredient labels, worrying about pesticides, cutting out food dyes, and filtering water. RFK Jr. isn’t popular because he gets everything right, but because he was the first political leader in a long time to confront the chronic disease epidemic and question why half of the ingredients on the average loaf of bread were only intelligible to a small subset of food scientists.
小罗伯特·肯尼迪已经取得了初步成功。本届政府已提议堵住一项存在数十年的漏洞，该漏洞曾允许食品公司在不告知FDA的情况下引入新化学物质。
RFK Jr. has had initial successes. The administration has proposed closing the decades-old loophole that allowed food companies to introduce new chemicals without telling the FDA.
美国卫生与公众服务部（HHS）和农业部（USDA）还提交了政府首个关于超加工食品的定义草案，这类食品占美国人饮食结构的近60%。
HHS and USDA also submitted the government's first proposed definition of ultra-processed foods, which make up nearly 60 percent of the American diet.
最近，美国环保署（EPA）宣布了一项尖端研究，旨在筛查饮用水中超过1400种新兴污染物，包括全氟和多氟烷基物质（PFAS）、农药、药物以及可诱导流产的米非司酮。对于“MAHA妈妈”们来说，这些都是华盛顿终于有人在倾听她们心声的切实迹象。
And most recently, the EPA announced a cutting-edge study screening drinking water for over 1,400 emerging contaminants, including PFAS, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and the abortion-inducing mifepristone. For MAHA moms, these are tangible signs that someone in Washington is finally listening.
布鲁克·罗林斯、本·卡森医生：我们正在让真正的食物重回学校午餐托盘。然而，在一个方面取得进展的同时，另一个方面却令人沮丧。正是这个审查食品添加剂的政府，却转而保护草甘膦——这种存在于“农达”（Roundup）除草剂中、也是美国农业中使用最广泛的除草剂，一些人担心它具有致癌性。今年春天，当最高法院审理一起重大的“农达”责任案件时，特朗普政府代表该农药制造商提交了一份法律意见书。当国会追问时，小罗伯特·肯尼迪在很大程度上回避了有关政府农药立场的问题。
BROOKE ROLLINS, DR. BEN CARSON: WE ARE PUTTING REAL FOOD BACK ON SCHOOL LUNCH TRAYS But, progress on one front has come with frustration on another. The same administration that is scrutinizing food additives has moved to protect glyphosate, the herbicide found in Roundup and the most widely used weed killer in American agriculture that some fear is carcinogenic. When the Supreme Court heard arguments in a major Roundup liability case this spring, the Trump administration filed a brief on behalf of the pesticide's manufacturer. RFK Jr. largely sidestepped questions about the administration's pesticide stance when pressed by Congress.
与此同时，在泽尔丁局长的放松管制议程下，美国环保署（EPA）已着手撤销针对PFAS（全氟和多氟烷基物质）的饮用水标准，并削弱了对汞及其他空气污染物的防护措施。
Meanwhile, under Administrator Zeldin's deregulatory agenda, the EPA has moved to roll back drinking water standards for PFAS and weakened protections against mercury and other air pollutants.
“让美国再次健康”（MAHA）运动的母亲们并非不了解这种矛盾。她们很感激自己的担忧终于成为了全国讨论的一部分。同样，她们也对左翼那种未能改善公共健康却让生活变得难以负担的强硬政府政策保持警惕。但是，她们尚未确信共和党是真的想回应她们的关切，而不仅仅是走走过场。
MAHA moms are not naive about this tension. They are thankful their concerns are finally part of the national conversation. Likewise, they are wary of the left’s heavy-handed government policies that have failed to improve public health while making life unaffordable. But, they haven’t yet been convinced that the GOP actually wants to respond to their concerns rather than check a few boxes.
如果共和党人想要围绕“让美国再次健康”运动建立一个可持续的联盟，他们需要的不仅仅是临时的胜利。他们需要一套鲜明的保守派环境与健康议程，既要认真对待选民的关切，又不能默认通过增加一层联邦监管就能解决问题。
If Republicans want to build a sustainable coalition around MAHA, they need more than ad hoc wins. They need a distinctly conservative environmental and health agenda, one that takes the constituency's concerns seriously without defaulting to the assumption that another layer of federal regulation will fix them.
共和党人刚刚获得了一份在国会之战中强有力的新策略手册。以下是其核心内容：这种平衡并非遥不可及。它始于应用保守派原则，即私营部门的主动性、放松管制以及对环境问题采取轻触式干预。以农民为例，许多人被困在一个迫使他们依赖农药和合成肥料的体系中，而他们本不愿使用这些产品。一项保守派的农业议程可以消除那些加剧化学品依赖的扭曲补贴，同时为再生农业实践创造新的激励措施，从而生产出更清洁的食物、更健康的土壤，并改善农业经济，且这一切都无需华盛顿的官僚对农民指手画脚。
REPUBLICANS JUST GOT A POWERFUL NEW PLAYBOOK FOR THE BATTLE FOR CONGRESS. HERE'S WHAT'S INSIDE That balance is not impossible. It starts by applying the conservative principles of private-sector initiative, deregulation, light-touch intervention to environmental concerns." Take farmers. Many are trapped in a system that pays them to lean on pesticides and synthetic fertilizers they'd rather not use. A conservative agricultural agenda could eliminate perverse subsidies that entrench chemical dependency while creating new incentives for regenerative farming practices that produce cleaner food, healthier soil, and better farm economics, all without a Washington bureaucrat telling farmers how to do their jobs.
布鲁克·罗林斯（BROOKE ROLLINS）、莫妮卡·克劳利（MONICA CROWLEY）：美国的家庭农场在过去250年里一直是我们强大的基石。同样的逻辑也适用于能源领域，并直接关系到食品杂货账单。新鲜食品之所以昂贵，部分原因在于其能源消耗巨大。它们需要经过种植、加工、冷藏、运输，并在整个过程中保持低温直至上架。
BROOKE ROLLINS, MONICA CROWLEY: AMERICA’S FAMILY FARMS HAVE KEPT US STRONG FOR 250 YEARS The same logic extends to energy, and it leads straight back to the grocery bill. Fresh food is expensive in part because it is energy-hungry. It has to be grown, processed, refrigerated, and trucked, and kept cold the whole way to the shelf.
全天然食材和极少加工的食品——正是那些关注“让美国再次健康”（MAHA）的母亲们试图购买的食品——受这些成本的影响最为显著。更廉价、更充足的能源可以在每一个环节降低这些成本。
Whole ingredients and minimally processed foods, the kind MAHA moms are trying to buy, are among the most exposed to those costs. Cheaper, more abundant power brings them down at every step.
相关地，是私营部门而非“绿色新政”正在推动一场历史性的太阳能建设浪潮，使该技术有望在2035年成为全球最大的电力来源。特朗普政府对核能的放松管制也指向了同样的方向。核能是目前可用的最清洁、最可靠的能源之一，它能提供更清洁的空气和更稳定的电网，且不存在风能和太阳能那样的间歇性问题。对于农民、加工商和杂货商而言，这意味着运营成本的降低；而对于家庭而言，这意味着优质食品将不再是奢侈品，而是日常生活的标配。
Relatedly, the private sector, not a Green New Deal, is driving a historic solar buildout that has the technology on track to become the world's largest source of power by 2035. The Trump administration's deregulation of nuclear energy points the same direction. It’s one of the cleanest and most reliable sources available, delivering cleaner air and a steadier grid without the intermittency problems of wind and solar. For farmers, processors, and grocers alike, that means lower operating costs, and for families it means the difference between good food as a luxury and good food as the default.
共和党在期中选举最重大的钱袋子之争中获得新转机。这些主张绝非左翼思想，而是将保守主义逻辑应用于数百万选民所关心的健康与环境议题。
GOP HANDED NEW LIFELINE ON BIGGEST POCKETBOOK FIGHT OF MIDTERMS None of these things are left-wing ideas. They apply the logic of conservatism to the health and environmental issues that matter to millions of voters.
共和党目前有一个难得的窗口期，可以通过认真对待环境健康问题的保守派议程来争取“让美国再次健康”（MAHA）运动的母亲们。如果共和党能回应这一诉求，不仅将在期中选举中获益，更将为未来的选举带来红利。
Republicans have a narrow window to win over MAHA moms with a conservative agenda that takes environmental health concerns seriously. If the GOP answers the call, it will pay dividends not just in the midterms, but in the elections to come.