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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday, invoking the Defense Production Act to protect domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, framing the chemicals as critical to national security and food supply.
The move ignited a firestorm among Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) supporters who consider glyphosate a primary driver of chronic disease in America. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. previously called glyphosate "one of the likely culprits in America's chronic disease epidemic," though he came out in defense of the president’s order.
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