By: Rita Cook
WASHINGTON DC – Last week President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to achieve improved safety and security of biological research.
In short, this order ends any present and all future Federal funding of dangerous gain-of-function research in countries of concern like China and Iran and in foreign nations deemed to have insufficient research oversight.
For example, it gives the National Institute of Health and other federal agencies the power to recognize and close biological research that threatens public health or national security.
Specifically named in the EO was lab-related incidents involving gain-of-function research, “like that conducted on bat coronaviruses in China by the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Americans through this order will be protected from lab accidents and other biosecurity incidents, “such as those that likely caused COVID-19 and the 1977 Russian flu,” the executive order read.
Some have said this was a bold move by Pres. Trump “banning all federal funding for gain-of-function (GoF) research—ending one of the most dangerous and unaccountable scientific experiments in modern history.”
Trump believes this EO is unlike previous policies since it contains enforcement and reporting mechanisms to strengthen oversight and discourage subjective interpretation of policies that researchers have used in the past to evade biosafety and biosecurity oversight.
Trump was joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya during the signing of the executive order with an overall tone of making it clear that America will not be bankrolling science experiments that weaponize viruses and endanger humanity under the pretense of “pandemic preparedness.”
“For years, unelected bureaucrats like Dr. Anthony Fauci funneled taxpayer dollars into secretive labs, including in Communist China, to manipulate viruses and make them more deadly,” Trump stated. “That ends today.”
Reportedly Kennedy has traced the origins of GoF research back to post-WWII military programs. He said more recently it was discovered the globalist establishment began the program again with Dr. Anthony Fauci at the helm.
Kennedy said, “The justification was always defense, but the real goal was control—controlling populations, controlling pandemics they helped create, and building billion-dollar vaccine markets.” he further added.
He added Fauci had received a 68% pay raise from the military for his involvement in this high-risk work. “This wasn’t science—it was militarized biological experimentation,” Kennedy said.
Bhattacharya told reporters he believes this EO will help research leaking out by accident under control to therefore avoid another pandemic.
A second executive order Trump signed related to pharmaceutical companies. The idea for that executive order is to improve domestic manufacturing of pharmaceuticals along with the permitting processes around building pharmaceutical manufacturing sites.
Trump has been talking about executing tariffs on pharmaceuticals made overseas too.
He believes necessary drugs used by the American people should be manufactured at home so there is not so much of a need for foreign supply chains.
“We’re going to have a big announcement next week on some of this kind of thing, but more related to costs,” Trump said after signing the executive orders on May 5.
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