Overview

• President Trump signed an executive order on July 31 reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test and reestablishing the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition under HHS oversight.
• Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will administer the council charged with addressing crisis levels of childhood obesity, chronic disease and inactivity.
• Professional golfer Bryson DeChambeau was named council chair during the White House ceremony attended by Harrison Butker, Annika Sorenstam, Paul Levesque and Lawrence Taylor.
• The council is tasked with setting national performance benchmarks, creating criteria for a new Presidential Fitness Award and launching school-based programs to reward physical education achievements.
• The initiative is slated to roll out in public middle and high schools at the start of the next academic year as part of the administration’s youth health agenda.