Republicans and MAHA Moms at Risk of Fracturing Over Pesticides

Last month a House committee voted along party lines on a seemingly run-of-the-mill interior appropriations bill, allocating funds for several favored Republican policies—expanding funding for domestic mining and offshore fossil fuel production, for instance—and curbing spending on more liberal causes, such as climate and diversity. But tucked away on page 196 of the more than 200-page bill were 10 little lines of text that have both environmental advocates and the Donald Trump-backing “Make America Healthy Again” coalition readying for a fight.

To anyone outside the Beltway, the buried bit of Washington-speak might not look like much: The provision, ...