An article summarized by Politico:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been quietly reaching out to members of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement as she considers her political future. Her team began meeting with MAHA activists in the spring, focusing on areas where they overlap, particularly concerns about pesticides, chemicals, corporate power, and access to safe food, despite major disagreements on issues such as vaccines.
The outreach reportedly began around Ocasio-Cortez’s work on glyphosate and pesticide regulation, with MAHA organizers providing information that helped inform her questioning of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. After that collaboration, her team expanded its conversations with figures in the MAHA movement. In late July, Ocasio-Cortez met with activists including Moms Across America founder Zen Honeycutt and Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell to discuss pesticides, PFAS, and environmental health. According to attendees, the meeting focused on health and environmental issues rather than partisan politics.
The outreach comes as some MAHA supporters have expressed frustration with the Trump administration and could potentially be open to politicians outside the traditional Republican coalition. Some MAHA figures have said they care primarily about health and food-safety issues rather than party labels, while others remain cautious about working with Ocasio-Cortez because of her broader political positions. The discussions therefore appear to be an effort to identify common ground on health, environmental, and corporate-regulation issues, rather than evidence that Ocasio-Cortez or the MAHA movement has formally aligned politically.
