The Supreme Court upholds free preventive care, but its future now rests in RFK Jr.’s hands

On June 26, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling that preserves free preventive care under the Affordable Care Act, a popular benefit that helps approximately 150 million Americans stay healthy. The case, Kennedy v. Braidwood, was the fourth major legal challenge to the ACA.

Phase II sodium reduction targets comment submitted to FDA

In January 2025, CSPI submitted this comment to FDA urging the agency to hold industry accountable for reducing sodium across the food supply. We specifically provided suggestions for improvement on FDA's draft guidance for industry on Phase II voluntary sodium reduction targets for commercially processed, packaged, and prepared foods. We asserted that FDA action to spur industry-side sodium reduction is crucial for Americans' health and that we generally supported the agency's efforts. We also noted that contrary to FDA's preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of its Phase I sodium targets, a CSPI reanalysis did not provide evidence of encouraging industry progress. Lessons from other sodium reduction initiatives show that FDA must be more aggressive with its sodium reduction efforts. Suggested actions included stricter targets, rigorous evaluation, and the consideration of mandatory targets if industry fails to meet voluntary targets.

NANA FY26 appropriations sign-on letter

This letter to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations urges appropriators to keep out policy riders and report language that negatively impact child nutrition programs, fully fund programs, and ensure full implementation of the 2024 USDA updates to school meals and WIC nutrition standards. View the resource below to read more.

‘MAHA Report’ calls for fighting chronic disease, but Trump and Kennedy have yanked funding

Senate poised to make Americans hungrier and sicker with cuts to nutrition and healthcare

Consumer groups call for alcohol to be included in the push to reduce chronic disease

Sign-on letter urging Trump administration to include alcohol in efforts to reduce chronic disease

We, the undersigned organizations, write today to call your attention to the negative health effects of alcohol and to ask you to inform consumers by moving forward with alcohol labeling proposals that will help fulfill President Trump’s goal of Making America Healthy Again. Excess consumption of alcohol is associated with injuries, motor vehicle accidents, and multiple chronic diseases, including liver disease and cardiovascular disease, and is a leading cause of preventable cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that, in 2020-2021 (the most recent year of data available), 178,000 deaths in the U.S. were attributable to excessive alcohol use (both acute and chronic). View the resource below to keep reading.

Federal district court strikes down NIH's unlawful directives that led to the elimination of critical research

MAHA Report: Anti-scientific ideas and deep contradictions

The health of America’s children is focus of the MAHA Commission's first report. Its ideas are undermined by many of the Trump administration's actions to date.

Kennedy, Rollins urged to uphold DGAC recommendations