(Reuters) -A federal commission established under the Trump administration is expected to miss next week’s deadline for releasing a highly anticipated report on improving children’s health, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the discussions.
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report—originally scheduled for release by August 12—seeks to highlight what the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has described as a “chronic disease epidemic” affecting both children and adults across the United States.
HHS did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The commission was established by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on February 13, 2025 and is chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Its mandate includes developing broad policy recommendations intended to guide multiple federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A report by MAHA was previously issued in May, where the commission blamed processed food, chemicals, stress and over-prescription of medications and vaccines for increasing rates of childhood obesity, diabetes, cancer, mental health disorders, allergies and neurodevelopmental conditions like autism.
(Reporting by Padmanabhan Ananthan in Bengaluru and Ahmed Aboulenein in Washington ; Editing by Tasim Zahid)
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