Delivering on President Trump’s Executive Order 14212, the “Make America Great Again” (MAHA) Commission released a 72-page report titled “The MAHA Report: Make Our Children Healthy Again,” outlining America’s childhood chronic disease crisis and its potential contributing causes.
The Government has never admitted that the United States is in an existential public health crisis. Today, we did—and now we’re going to do something about it. pic.twitter.com/3u9z3WNCTN
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 23, 2025
However, before listing the host of potential contributing causes of chronic illnesses, the report first addresses “Corporate Capture and the Revolving Door.” Starting on page eighteen, the incestuous relationship between big government and bigger monopolies begins to paint a picture of how we’ve ended up here in the first place—a complete lack of surprise for anyone familiar with “regulatory” agencies.
Beginning under President Franklin D. Roosevelt—a fan of Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile’s fascist economic framework—the Executive branch began creating agencies to “administrate” the various social programs created by the New Deal. Sometimes referred to as “the swamp,” or as Mussolini called it, “the state within the state,” Americans have come to know these agencies of unelected bureaucrats as the “Administrative State.”
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