Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., walks towards the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol Building on June 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
He has his own four pillars of MAHA, which include dialing up efficiency in agriculture; healthier, more nutrient-rich food; affordable access to primary care healthcare; and addressing mental health challenges among young people.
But it all starts below the surface with soil health.
"Soil is a dirty topic, you know, pun intended," Marshall told Fox News Digital in an interview.
MAHA diehards and farmers are, at a surface level, at odds with one another, he said. For example, returning to an entirely organic food production process devoid of fertilizers would create healthier food, but also crank up the costs on consumers and strain farmland.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins hold up ice cream cones after speaking during a news conference at the USDA headquarters building in Washington, D.C., on July 14, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
The bill ties in directly with his passion for regenerative agriculture, which uses fewer fertilizers, water and other status-quo farming techniques to produce healthier foods on more sustainable farmland, which, in turn, would yield a cheaper, more nutritious diet for Americans.
"It's growing more with less," he said.
Among the various, bipartisan pieces of legislation from both chambers are bills that would push mobile cancer screenings with grant funding, add mental health warnings for kids scrolling through social media, require more transparency in food ingredients, expansion of employer healthcare coverage for chronic diseases, and measures that would allow bleeding edge soil health technology and processes to be considered conservation practices and eligible for Farm Bill funding, among others.
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Most bills need to get 60 votes to pass in the Senate, Marshall noted, and that led to a desire to incorporate as many bipartisan measures in the package as possible. It’s also a topic that, in spite of the political polarization in Washington, "unites us, rather than divides us."
Still, with President Donald Trump in office, he sees the chance for the measures to pass as a kind of now or never moment.
"We're seeing a time in our lives where the incidence of cancer, the age of cancer, is growing younger and younger, the age of Alzheimer's onset is growing younger and younger, and we believe it's an inflammatory reaction to the food that we're eating that leads to all that," he said.
"We think heart disease, hypertension, is really an inflammatory reaction… to the food we're eating and the constantly high sugar levels in our blood system," he continued. "So absolutely, I think, seize the moment. This is it."
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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