Cassidy’s loss is a MAHA win

Politico ^ | May 18, 2026 | Kelly Hooper, Sophie Gardner

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Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a big fan of Kennedy and MAHA, is angling to replace Cassidy — a Kennedy nemesis — atop the influential Health Committee next year if Republicans retain control of the Senate…

Marshall founded a MAHA caucus to promote Kennedy’s push to combat chronic disease…

Under Cassidy, the panel never held votes on three Kennedy-backed nominees, and the impasse led to the withdrawal of all three nominations…

An OB/GYN before wading into politics, Marshall has criticized vaccine mandates and supported nutrition-forward health reforms, including a focus on chronic disease prevention. In a September hearing, Marshall endorsed Kennedy’s view that the hepatitis B vaccine is given to babies who don’t need it because their mothers don’t have the disease.

“It makes no sense to me. I’ve only delivered five thousand babies, but we do a hepatitis test on every mom,” he said.

Marshall has also introduced a bill that would require processed food makers to report new ingredients they use and allow people to petition the Food and Drug Administration to review the safety of new ingredients...

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; billcassidy; cassidy; cdc; daveweldon; fda; hhs; kennedy; maha; marshall; rfk; rfkjr; rogermarshall; weldon

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Sen. Cassidy did the most to block RFK’s first appointment, Dr. Dave Weldon’s nomination to the CDC from ever moving forward, and vouched for Fauci ally Susan Monarez instead. She proved hostile to Kennedy from week 1 and was fired... And the MAHA agenda has been in flux ever since.

Cassidy defamed Weldon, a fellow doctor who still practices medicine and regularly vaccines his patients, as an ‘anti-vaxxer’ to distort his role as an advocate for concerned parents in the 90s. The withdrawal of his nomination was one of the highlight sore spots of Trump’s second term and the first of a series of a MAHA setbacks.

The whole ordeal, plus his shameless lobbying for Big Pharma made me call Bill Cassidy’s Congressional offices in both Louisiana and D.C. to express disappointment even though he’s not my Senator.

I pray Dr. Weldon gets another chance to serve and clear his name.

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Cassidy defamed Weldon, a fellow doctor who still practices medicine and regularly vaccines his patients, as an ‘anti-vaxxer’ to distort his role as an advocate for concerned parents in the 90s.

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