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🥩 How MAHA could outlast RFK Jr.

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The vaccine agenda of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a big political liability hanging over Republicans. But his suspicion of the medical system is likely to endure with the GOP base, Axios' Caitlin Owens writes. Why it matters: Kennedy will one day leave public life. It's an open question who — if anyone — will pick up where he left off merging vaccine skepticism with official health policy. Between the lines: Suspicion of public health institutions and pharmaceutical companies is widespread within the GOP. So, too, is the belief that federal agencies overseeing the drug industry have become captive to it. Kennedy's rise to power wasn't the precipitating event for the suspicion — COVID and the government's response were. Keep reading ...