Rural MAHA Voters Don’t Think Trump Admin Has Helped Health In Their Communities, New Poll Shows
Most backers of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement living in rural areas do not believe the Trump administration’s health policies are actually helping their communities, per a new KFF-Associated Press poll.
The survey suggests that roughly 8 in 10 rural U.S. voters said the administration’s policies have had a negative impact or no effect on the health of individuals in their local communities. Particularly, 68 percent of these rural voters who said they aligned with the MAHA movement said they felt the same way, the poll shows.
The poll found that just 10 percent of rural Democratic voters said they had a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while 74 percent of rural Republicans said the same. Roughly 5 percent of rural Democrats and 69 percent of rural Republican voters reported trusting President Donald Trump a “great deal” or “fair amount” for trustworthy health information, according to the survey.
“This poll takes the views of a small subset of voters and attempts to draw sweeping conclusions about the impact of the Make America Healthy Again agenda in rural communities nationwide. The reality is that President Trump and Secretary Kennedy have made rural America a central focus of MAHA,” an HHS spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.
Thanks to @POTUS and the One Big Beautiful Bill, we’re making the largest investment in rural health in a generation.
$50 billion over 5 years will go to rural hospitals and communities—strengthening the backbone of America and giving our farmers the support they’ve long deserved.
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 4, 2025
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that a $20 million investment is being disbursed in an effort to bolster healthcare technology and expand patient access in rural North Carolina via the federal Rural Health Transformation Program. (Read more from “Rural MAHA Voters Don’t Think Trump Admin Has Helped Health In Their Communities, New Poll Shows” HERE)
