Taylor Fresh Foods Inc., the parent company of Taylor Farms, donated $1 million to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. in March 2025 — six days after the FDA announced a 30-month delay in enforcing its Food Traceability Rule — fuelling social media speculation that political contributions influenced food safety decisions. The donations came under heightened scrutiny after Taylor Farms de Mexico's iceberg lettuce was linked to the largest known cyclosporiasis (an intestinal illness caused by the cyclospora parasite) outbreak in U.S. history, with the FDA and CDC tracing contaminated lettuce supplied to Taco Bell and Walmart back to the company's facilities in central Mexico. Both Taylor Farms and the White House denied any link between the donations and regulatory decisions, with the Department of Health and Human Services stating that "nothing influences our decisions except science and the safety of the American people," while the FDA maintained that epidemiological evidence continued to point to Taylor Farms de Mexico despite a reported false positive on a lab sample.