Overview

• A House GOP appropriations measure includes language, outlined by Rep. Mike Simpson, stating that states cannot require pesticide labels that differ from the EPA label to avoid a patchwork of requirements.
• Public health and environmental advocates warn the provision would tether labels to infrequent EPA risk assessments, potentially sidelining newer science and constraining legal accountability.
• Another rider would block funding to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA’s draft PFAS food-risk assessment, with Simpson’s office citing technical flaws even as an amendment allows the agency to finalize the document.
• MAHA-aligned activists denounced Republican support for both riders as unconscionable in a letter to President Trump, highlighting a rift with GOP allies.
• Tensions intensified after reporting on a leaked MAHA draft that omits new pesticide restrictions and describes EPA review procedures as robust, drawing sharp backlash from MAHA-affiliated figures.