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Key Trump Health Adviser Calley Means Resigns Ahead of Midterm Elections
Calley Means, a leader of the Make America Healthy Again movement, resigned from the Trump administration on Thursday, signaling a further erosion of a coalition that helped propel President Trump to power a second time.
Mr. Means, a top adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services, was a key official behind policies around food quality, including an effort to increase disclosure of the chemicals in food, remove artificial food dyes and ban soda from the federal food assistance program known as SNAP.
He also worked on an executive order to support the development of psychedelic medications, which got a boost from the podcast host Joe Rogan. “I leave with tremendous respect for President Trump and R.F.K. Jr. — two historic figures who are committed to confronting a corrupt D.C. bureaucracy that is doing everything possible to protect the status quo,” Mr. Means said in a statement.
One in 4 Americans Supports MAHA, But Three Times as Many Share Food-Related Concerns
The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania reported:
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement emerged as part of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign following former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of Trump. Kennedy has predicted that the movement will be a factor in the forthcoming 2026 midterms.
Now serving as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr., who has been campaigning for Republicans, told the Daily Signal in August: “Everywhere we go, we’re seeing incredible enthusiasm from the MAHA movement for this administration, so I think it’s going to be an important factor [in the midterms].”
In two nationally representative surveys this year, the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) asked a panel of U.S. adults about MAHA-related policies, developing a portrait of MAHA supporters’ policy preferences. One Annenberg Science and Public Health (ASAPH) survey was conducted April 14-28, 2026, among 1,639 adults; the second was conducted Aug. 4-17, 2026, among 1,904 adults. See the end of this release or the topline for more information.
Family Physicians Ask Administrative Court to Halt Florida’s Plan to End 4 School Vaccines
A group of physicians is asking an administrative court to halt Florida’s push to end the requirement that children get four vaccines to attend school.
The Florida Academy of Family Physicians filed a petition with the Division of Administrative Hearings on Friday. It alleges the Department of Health failed to follow proper procedures in moving to roll back the requirements for hepatitis B, varicella (chickenpox), Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.
The other petitioners are Dr. Danielle Carter of Jacksonville, a 70-year-old with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia who is vulnerable to viruses and is identified as T.K. in court documents; and a school nurse identified as K.O. Both are anonymous.
Judge Rejects Trump’s Wild Claim EPA Can Dismiss Data Center Pollution Lawsuits
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is stuck facing a lawsuit over alleged data center pollution after Donald Trump failed to convince a judge that his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has complete control over all Clean Air Act lawsuits and can dismiss any suit at whim.
Soon after unpermitted gas turbines were discovered powering Musk’s giant Colossus data center in Memphis, Tennessee, the NAACP sued. Its lawsuit sought an injunction requiring xAI (which, following a merger, is known now as SpaceXAI) to use the best available pollution control technology when operating the turbines and ordering penalties up to $124,426 per day per violation. Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued.
To block the lawsuit, Trump tried to intervene, arguing that the EPA had the power to unilaterally dismiss lawsuits any time the president decides against enforcing the Clean Air Act. According to Trump, it would supposedly “not serve the public interest” if citizens were allowed to seek massive civil penalties to punish polluting AI firms that were trying to get data centers operational as fast as possible to support Trump’s AI Action Plan.
Georgia’s Social Media Age-Verification Law Can Now Be Enforced, Court Rules
A federal appeals court cleared the way for Georgia to enforce its social media age-verification law, removing a legal shield that had protected platforms from compliance for more than a year. A three-judge Eleventh Circuit panel vacated a preliminary injunction blocking Georgia Senate Bill 351 on October 15, 2026. The panel comprised Judges Kevin Newsom, Robert Luck, and Gerald Bard Tjoflat.
The ruling does not declare SB 351 constitutional. It means the industry group that challenged the law failed to clear the evidentiary bar required to pause enforcement at this early stage.
That distinction matters. The underlying lawsuit continues in the Northern District of Georgia, and platforms may still challenge how the law applies in specific situations.
