It's Tuesday, February 17th.
I'm Jane Costa, and this is What A Day.
The show that celebrated Presidents Day by thinking about all the presidents we never think about.
James K.
Polk, James Buchanan, James Garfield.
We really have had a lot of Jameses in the White House.
On today's show,
will congressional lawmakers do their jobs and negotiate an agreement to reopen the Department of Homeland Security?
Looks like not anytime soon.
And former President Barack Obama feeds our inner conspiracy theorist by talking about aliens on a podcast.
But let's start with MAHA, the Trump administration's promise to make America healthy again.
It's been about a year
since President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission.
And we've seen it show up in a lot of different ways.
Some of them evil, like reducing the number of vaccines babies are expected to receive.
And some of them kind of banal, like banning certain food dyes.
It was also at the Super Bowl last week.
In between a Bad Bunny halftime show for the ages and a defensive standoff by the Seattle Seahawks you probably already forgot about,
MAHA stole the spotlight for about 30 seconds.
It was via this advertisement from MAHA Center,