2026年10月22日 美国东部时间下午3:21 / CNN
作者：莎拉·奥弗莫勒、亚当·克赖恩
2025年4月22日，美国企业家、卫生与公众服务部特别政府雇员卡利·米恩斯在华盛顿特区卫生与公众服务部举行的新闻发布会上发言。
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据多名知情人士透露，“让美国再次健康”运动的知名人物卡利·米恩斯周四辞去了特朗普政府高级卫生官员职务，原因是对政府应对慢性病的进展感到不满。
米恩斯在一份声明中证实了自己的离职，他表示自己“怀着对特朗普总统和鲍比·肯尼迪的极大敬意”辞职。
作为卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪的高级顾问，米恩斯的离职正值“让美国再次健康”运动的支持者对政府在超加工食品和农药问题上无所作为的不满情绪日益加剧之际。
这是特朗普“让美国再次伟大”阵营与肯尼迪的“让美国再次健康”选民之间政治联盟遭遇的最新打击。这些选民在2024年助力特朗普重返白宫，但随着他们核心的食品与健康相关议程停滞不前，他们越来越感到幻灭。
本月，一个“让美国再次健康”活动家联盟发布了一份“评分卡”，称拜登政府未能兑现其限制农药使用、推广更健康食品以及打破华盛顿特殊利益集团的大部分承诺。
米恩斯被广泛认为是促成肯尼迪与特朗普结识的关键人物——最终推动肯尼迪背书特朗普并进入内阁。他在正式加入政府前一直是肯尼迪最亲密的外部顾问之一。他曾在白宫担任临时职务，之后出任卫生与公众服务部高级顾问。特朗普曾提名他的妹妹凯西·米恩斯担任卫生局局长，但该提名后来被撤回。
“让美国再次健康”运动对拖延感到不满
三名知情人士表示，米恩斯此前曾称赞特朗普是一位愿意彻底改革政府食品与健康监管方式的候选人，但他对推进“让美国再次健康”运动核心议程中的一系列政策所遭遇的拖延越来越感到沮丧。
特朗普政府的官员最初曾希望，包括制定超加工食品定义在内的多项政策能在中期选举前顺利敲定。但这些政策在白宫持续遭遇拖延，同时遭到主要农业行业团体的强烈反对。
知情人士透露，米恩斯决定辞职主要就是因为这些拖延。
他是近几个月来辞职或被解雇的多名高级卫生官员中的最新一位，原因是选民对肯尼迪有争议的疫苗政策感到不满，同时白宫试图将其健康议程转向更受民众欢迎的政策重点。
今年8月，米恩斯与肯尼迪一同出席了卫生与公众服务部的一场活动，肯尼迪在活动中承诺推出一系列政策，旨在打击流行食品中的人工食用色素、甜味剂和其他添加剂。
但他们的声明并未要求食品制造商证明其成分安全——这是“让美国再次健康”运动倡导者长期以来的优先诉求。
这种拖延引发了“让美国再次健康”运动倡导者的愤怒，他们誓言要在投票箱前进行报复。
米恩斯在X平台上发帖称，肯尼迪和特朗普“提出了与华盛顿根深蒂固、从中牟利的黑暗势力作斗争的愿景”，并在过去两年中取得了重大进展。“过去两年里，围绕这些目标出台的政策和实现的文化变革比历史上任何时期都多——我知道这场运动才刚刚开始，”他写道。
白宫未立即回应置评请求。
以农药维权活动闻名的“让美国再次健康”运动倡导者凯利·赖尔森评价米恩斯说：“我很钦佩他在卫生与公众服务部奋战了两年多，对抗食品领域的斗争，尽管面临企业利益带来的种种障碍。”
“旨在安抚企业利益的复杂法律障碍和政治阴谋几乎让推进工作寸步难行，”赖尔森补充道。“食品巨头和农业巨头只有通过掌控我们的民选官员和监管者才能继续生存下去，而他们目前正得逞。”
“这令人痛心，但必须这么做，”运营着一个热门的“让美国再次健康”主题播客的影响者亚历克斯·克拉克在谈及米恩斯的离职时说道。“我也别无选择，只能辞职。”
MAHA adviser who introduced RFK Jr. to Trump quits admin amid frustrations over food policy
2026-10-22 3:21 PM ET / CNN
By Sarah Owermohle, Adam Cancryn
American entrepreneur and special government employee for Health and Human Services Calley Means speaks during a news conference at the Health and Human Services Department in Washington, DC, on April 22, 2025.
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Calley Means, a prominent figure in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, resigned from his position as a senior Trump health official on Thursday over frustrations with the government’s progress tackling chronic disease, according to multiple people familiar with his decision.
Means confirmed his departure in a statement, that he is resigning “with tremendous respect for President Trump and Bobby Kennedy.”
A top adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Means’ exit comes mounting frustration from MAHA supporters over government inaction on ultraprocessed foods and pesticides.
It represents the latest blow to the political alliance between the president’s “Make America Great Again” base and Kennedy’s MAHA voters, who helped power Trump to the White House in 2024, only for them to grow increasingly disillusioned as their key food and health priorities stalled.
This month, a coalition of MAHA activists released a “scorecard” claiming the administration had failed most of its promises to restrict pesticide use, promote healthier foods and break up special interests in Washington.
Means, who was widely credited with introducing Kennedy to Trump – eventually leading the former to endorse him and end up in his Cabinet – had served as one of Kennedy’s closest outside advisers before officially joining the administration. He held a temporary role at the White House, then later became a top adviser at HHS. Trump nominated his sister, Casey Means, as surgeon general, though this was later withdrawn.
MAHA unhappy with delays
Means, who had championed Trump as a candidate willing to overhaul the government’s approach to food and health regulation, grew increasingly frustrated over delays in advancing a series of policies at the center of the MAHA agenda, three people familiar with the matter said.
Trump health officials had initially hoped that policies, including an effort to create a definition for ultraprocessed foods, would be finalized well before the midterm elections. Instead, they’ve faced continued delays in the White House and sharp pushback from major agriculture industry groups.
Means decided to quit primarily because of those delays, the people familiar with his thinking said.
He is the latest in a string of senior health officials who have quit or been fired in recent months as voters soured on Kennedy’s controversial vaccine policies and the White House sought to pivot its health agenda toward more popular policy priorities.
In August, Means stood alongside Kennedy at an HHS event where the secretary promised a slew of policies aimed at cracking down on artificial food dyes, sweeteners and other additives in popular foods.
But their announcement stopped short of requiring food manufacturers to prove their ingredients are safe – a long-held priority for MAHA advocates.
The delay has stoked anger among MAHA advocates promising retribution at the ballot box.
Means, in a post on X, said that Kennedy and Trump “laid out a vision of combatting the entrenched, dark forces in DC that profit from Americans getting sick” and have made significant progress in the past two years. “More policy and cultural change has happened around these goals in the past 2 years than any time in history – and I know this movement is just getting started,” he wrote.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kelly Ryerson, a MAHA advocate known for her activism on pesticides, said of Means: “I am impressed that he completed over two years at HHS fighting the food battle, despite all of the obstacles presented by corporate interests.”
“Sophisticated legal roadblocks and political shenanigans designed to appease corporate interests have made progress nearly impossible,” Ryerson added. “Big Food and Big Ag only continue to survive by owning our elected officials and regulators, and they are currently succeeding.”
“It’s devastating, but had to be done,” Alex Clark, an influencer who runs a popular MAHA-themed podcast for Turning Point USA, said, referring to Means’ exit.“I would have had no choice but to leave too.”
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