The honeymoon appears to be over for President Donald Trump and his Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Multiple insiders told CNN that ‘splinters’ were beginning to show between traditional Trump backers and the renegades Kennedy has brought into his department.
Coupled that with massive pushback to the new health secretary’s radical agenda from inside the agency and claims that the president is not pleased with the handling of a measles outbreak, and many told CNN that the alliance is falling apart.
“It’s an utter disaster,” one said.
Kennedy’s diehard supporters were never truly compatible with the MAGA crowd, CNN reported.
“There’s a lot of organizations, a lot of people in this room who four to eight years ago, would have thought it was crazy to vote for President Trump,” Calley Means, a longtime ally of Kennedy’s, recently told a crowd of his supporters.
And as the true believers of his controversial medical agenda see pushback from inside the government, the alliance is coming under threat.
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“Agency shake-ups and new appointees have also begun to splinter the alliance between traditional Trump world allies and Kennedy’s MAHA acolytes,” CNN reported.
“Though it’s early days, there is friction between the MAHA and MAGA camps, according to more than half a dozen current and former officials and people familiar with the conversations who declined to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak on behalf of the health agency, or who feared retribution.”
Kennedy’s own efforts to placate health officials while keeping support from vaccine critics are also causing issues, CNN reported.
“Cracks have also opened up within the MAHA movement itself,” the insiders told the network.
“The number of actual, true MAHA supporters at the top of these agencies is maybe 75 people across an agency that has 60,000 employees,” Mark Gorton, Make American Healthy Again Institute co-president, said at a recent gathering of supporters.
There are also major gripes from inside the agency about the droves who are leaving — citing the influence Kennedy has brought, CNN reported.