Trump's vaccine order hands some MAHA voters a win. It also gives Democrats an attack line

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump pivoted the nation's attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits. After acting to overhaul the nation's vaccine policy and guidance, the Trump administration had recently largely stepped back from additional changes to focus on less controversial subjects, raising questions over the political impetus behind and implications of the Republican president's renewed focus on vaccines. For well over a decade, Trump has expressed his view — against medical groups' guidance — that childhood vaccines should be administered in smaller doses over a long period of time. The executive order sought to bear out that discredited theory. Please check your inbox to confirm.

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