The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding nearly $700,000 taxpayer dollars to back pregnancy prevention programs for young girls who identify as boys, warning that “heteronormative” sexual education is inadequate.
The $698,736 grant, which began in September 2023 and will continue until June 2027, according to <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01NR020846_7529/">government disclosures</a>, will be allocated to the <a href="https://innovativepublichealth.org/">Center for Innovative Public Health Research</a>, a non-profit that seeks to create “an inclusive teen pregnancy program for transgender boys.”
“Youth who are assigned female at birth … are at risk for negative sexual health outcomes yet are effectively excluded from sexual health programs because gender-diverse youth do not experience the cisgender, heteronormative teen sexual education messaging available to them as salient or applicable,” the <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01NR020846_7529/">award description</a> claims.
“Data suggest that AFAB [assigned female at birth] trans-identified youth may be less likely to use condoms when having sex with people who have penises and are at least as likely as cisgender girls to be pregnant,” it goes on to say before adding that the &#8220;health inequity must be addressed.”
The Center for Innovative Public Health Research aims to provide sex education via a <a href="https://innovativepublichealth.org/publications/girl2girl-how-to-develop-a-salient-pregnancy-prevention-program-for-cisgender-sexual-minority-adolescent-girls/">program</a> called “Girl2Girl,” which the organization describes as “a text messaging based-sexual health program designed for cisgender sexual minority girls 14-18 years of age.”
The center will then “test the resulting adaptation” in a national cohort of “700 trans-identified AFAB youth 14-18 years of age,” measuring their use of contraception and testing for sexually transmitted diseases, as well as pregnancy rates.
The funding from the HHS specifically comes from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Nursing Research. The National Institute of Nursing Research was <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/federal_account/075-0889">given authority</a> to spend a total of $57 million taxpayer dollars in fiscal year 2024.
The Center for Innovative Public Health Research is slated to receive <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01NR020309_7529">another $1.4 million</a> taxpayer dollars from HHS to develop a “population-based HIV prevention program for trans girls,” specifying that the program will “address the lack of gender inclusive HIV prevention programming.”
“Messaging will be gender affirming” and will “reduce internalized transphobia,” the award description adds.
But the award for nearly $700,000 taxpayer dollars is not the only action that the HHS has taken to push transgenderism. The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nih-funds-study-on-puberty-blockers-hormones-on-youth-despite-risk-of-sterilization">revealed</a> that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a subagency of the HHS, funded a study on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatment <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-senators-blast-nih-for-3-million-grant-to-expand-medical-transitions-for-minors">to the tune of $3 million</a> despite transgender children&#8217;s hospitals admitting that the practice could result in permanent sterilization.
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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul confronted Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief White House medical adviser and former director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), saying he should “take some responsibility for funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan,” while saying &#8220;what you’ve done is change the definition on your website to try to cover your a**.&#8221;
“I don’t expect you today to admit that you approved of NIH funding for gain-of-function research in Wuhan, but your repeated denials have worn thin and a majority of Americans frankly, don’t believe you,” Paul began. “Even the NIH now admits that EcoHealth Alliance (the non-profit that <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-function-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collaborated</a> with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nearby Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment) did perform experiments in Wuhan that created viruses not found in nature that actually did gain in lethality. The facts are clear: The NIH did fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan, despite your protestations.”
In September 2021, The Intercept <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-function-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> evidence showing that the EcoHealth Alliance, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the nearby Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment had engaged in gain-of-function research “intentionally making viruses more pathogenic or transmissible in order to study them &#8230; grant money for the controversial experiment came from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is headed by Anthony Fauci.&#8221;
“Your persistent denials, though, are not simply a stain on your reputation, but are a clear and present danger to the country and to the world,” Paul stated.
Later in the confrontation, Paul asked, “Will you today, finally take some responsibility for funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan?”
“Senator, with all due respect, I disagree with so many of the things that you said. First of all, gain-of-function is a very nebulous term; we have spent, not us, but outside bodies, a considerable amount of effort to give a more precise definition to the type of research that is of concern that might lead to a dangerous situation. You are aware of that; that is called P3CO,” Fauci answered.
“We’re aware that you deleted gain-of-function from the NIH website,” Paul interjected.
“Well, I can get back to that in a moment if we have time, but let’s get back to the operating framework and guiderails of which we operate under,” Fauci deflected. “And you have ignored them. the guidelines are very, very clear: that you have to be dealing with a pathogen that clearly is shown and very likely to be highly transmissible in an uncontrollable way in humans and to have a high degree of morbidity and mortality and that you do experiments to enhance that, hence the word EPPP: enhanced pathogens potential pandemic.”
Paul pointed out that EcoHealth Alliance took a virus and combined it with WIV-1 to cause a “recombinant virus that doesn’t exist in nature,” adding, “and it made mice sicker — mice that had humanized cells — you’re saying that’s not gain-of-function research?”
“According to the framework and guidelines —” Fauci responded.
“So what you’re doing is defining away gain-of-function; you’re simply saying it doesn’t exist cause you changed the definition on the NIH website,” Paul accused. “This is terrible, and you’re completely trying to escape the idea that we should do something about trying to prevent a pandemic from leaking from a lab. The preponderance of evidence now points toward this coming from a lab, and what you’ve done is change the definition on your website to try to cover your a** basically. That’s what you’ve done; you’ve changed the website to have a new definition that doesn’t include the risky research that’s going on. Until you admit that it’s risky, we’re not gonna get anywhere. You have to admit that this research was risky. The NIH has now rebuked them. Your own agency has rebuked them. But the thing is you’re still unwilling to admit that they gained in function when they say that became sicker; they gained in lethality. It’s a new virus. That’s not gain-of-function?”
“According to the definition that’s currently operable &#8230; the current definition was done over a two to three-year period by outside bodies, including the NSABB, two conferences by the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine on December 2014, March 2016. We commissioned external risk-benefit assessment, and then on January of 2017, the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the White House issued the current policy,” Fauci said.
Paul then pointed out: “And coincidentally, the definition appeared on the same day that the NIH said that yes, there was a gain-of-function in Wuhan; the same day the definition appeared; the new definition to try to define away what’s going on in Wuhan. Until you accept it, we’re not going to get responsibility; we’re not going to get anywhere close to trying to prevent another lab leak of this dangerous sort of experiment.”
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A watchdog group has raised a red flag over a promise — from President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s choice to head up the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nih" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Institute of Health</a> — to not take any money or work for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/big-pharma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Big Pharma</a> company for four years after leaving her position. 
Monica Bertagnolli, Biden’s pick to head up the NIH, made the promise in a <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Bertagnolli%20Letter%20to%20Senator%20Warren%2008.2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> sent earlier this month to Massachusetts Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elizabeth-warren" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Warren</a>. The promise, though, is “bogus” because it would still allow her research to be funded by pharmaceutical companies, according to the American Accountability Foundation. 
&#8220;Monica Bertagnolli is one of the worst nominees Biden has chosen. Her history of incompetence as a doctor and her tight relationship with Big Pharma make her unqualified for this position. Her attempts now to fool Congress with this bogus &#8216;ethics pledge&#8217; just reinforces this. Sen. Warren needs to reject this ploy and make Dr. Bertagnolli answer for her past,” said AAF President Tom Jones in a statement to The Daily Wire. 
Bertagnolli has faced opposition after her appointment three months ago, including from Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has been using her nomination <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/29/biden-elizabeth-warren-concession-nih-director-00113307" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to pressure</a> the White House over drug prices. 
“In response to our conversation, I am willing to voluntarily extend the recusal period from two years to four years for all particular matters involving companies with which I have a previous working relationship,” Bertagnolli wrote. “If confirmed as NIH Director, I will also further commit for four years following my tenure to not seek employment with or compensation from, including as a result of board service, any pharmaceutical company with annual revenues at or above $10 billion.”
Research associated with Bertagnolli, has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars, including tens of millions from COVID vaccine manufacturer Pfizer, <a href="https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/114497" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service&#8217;s Open Payments site. 
According to Open Payments, Pfizer gave over $30 million to research associated with Bertagnolli in 2022 and biotech company Seagen Inc. gave over $22 million that same year. Associated research is defined as funding “for a research project of study where the physician is named as a principal investigator.”
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A <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-nih-biden-pfizer-cancer-882296155977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact-check</a> from the Associated Press on a social media posting about Bertagnolli’s ties to Pfizer said that the funding was not directly to her, but that much of the funding went toward a clinical trial for cancer treatment. 
“That may be accurate, but it misses the point. Monica Bertagnolli is profiting handsomely off of the pharmaceutical industry’s support for her research. Funds have flowed through to her salary at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Dana Farber Cancer Institute where she is a researcher,” a memo from the AAF said. 
The AAF has also pointed to Bertagnolli’s previous ties to Natera, where she earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock and was on the board, before she joined the National Cancer Institute. Natera has been scrutinized in the media, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/01/upshot/pregnancy-birth-genetic-testing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> the New York Times, who reported that Natera’s genetic testing products can often lead to false positives or negatives.

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Sen. Rand Paul, reinvigorated by newly-released emails from 2020 showing Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that scientists at Wuhan University were known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments, is <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12308421/Anthony-Fauci-accused-perjury-Former-White-House-doctor-LIED-oath-funding-gain-function-research-China-feared-started-Covid-pandemic-Republican-Senator-claims.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> for Fauci to be investigated for lying to Congress.
The Kentucky Republican wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week, saying Fauci had committed perjury when he told a Senate committee in July 2021 that the National Institutes of Health “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).” Fauci served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984-2022; NIAID is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The 2020 email from Fauci revolved around a call he shared with various scientists, including Francis Collins, (former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute), who were “concerned about the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the nCoV, there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was inserted.”
This key passage immediately followed: &#8220;The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.&#8221;
In September 2021, Richard Ebright, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-untruthful-congress-wuhan-lab-research-documents-show-gain-function-1627351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told </a>Newsweek that documents released by The Intercept proved “unequivocally” that NIH grants were used to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Paul pointed out that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined in June that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan University did receive NIH funding.
Paul noted that the GAO report “noted that NIH funded the WIV’s project ‘Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence’ and included “genetic experiments to combine naturally occurring bat coronaviruses with SARS and MERS viruses, resulting in hybridized coronavirus strains. &#8230; GAO also found that NIH funded the Wuhan University’s collaboration with WIV on viral detection in the Yunnan province.”
The GAO <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-106119.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “Specifically, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided $200,000 in grant funding to Wuhan University, the only selected Chinese entity to receive funding directly from a federal agency. &#8230; All three selected Chinese entities received first-tier subawards from award recipients or second-tier subawards from another subrecipient. Specifically, we identified seven subawards to the three entities: Wuhan University: Two subawards totaling $240,496 disbursed, WIV: Three subawards totaling $1,413,720 disbursed, and AMMS: Two subawards totaling $514,129 disbursed. &#8230; Funding was disbursed under five of the seven subawards to the selected entities in calendar years 2014 through 2021.”
Fauci told the Senate Committee in 2021 that “gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Doctor Shi [Zhengli] and was funded by the NIH.”
Paul pointed out that a paper by Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists mentioned efforts to produce a “chimeric” coronavirus. Such a virus would have been altered by humans, definitionally making it “gain of function.”
Paul stated that the information “explicitly matches the definition of gain-of-function research,” while Fauci had said, “This paper was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function.”

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s nominee to lead the National Institute of Health allegedly received millions of dollars in research-related funds from big pharmaceutical companies while opposing Trump-era drug costs, according to a watchdog group.
The American Accountability Foundation, a conservative opposition research group founded in 2020, published a new report observed by The New York Post that said NIH Biden-nominee Dr. Monica Bertagnolli has &#8220;problematic close ties with big pharma&#8221; with the nation&#8217;s primary agency responsible for biomedical and public health research
&#8220;Big Pharma bankrolled her career, and she has long been a friend and ally to them,&#8221; the group <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/16/watchdog-accuses-bidens-nih-nominee-of-close-ties-to-big-pharma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Post</a> in a statement. &#8220;Especially after the corruption and lies that came from the government&#8217;s medical agencies during COVID, the American people need to know that NIH will be led by honest people who serve them, and are not owned by massive corporations.&#8221;
&#8220;Our government&#8217;s medical institutions must serve the interests of the American people, not Big Pharma,&#8221; the group said. &#8220;However, Dr. Bertagnolli&#8217;s extensive financial ties to pharmaceutical companies raise serious questions about her ability to lead NIH in a manner that is not beholden to special or secret interests.&#8221;
Bertagnolli, 64, received more than $350 million in research-related funds from pharmaceutical giants, including at least $56 million from Pfizer, Seagan Inc., and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in 2022, according to <a href="https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/114497" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a>.
Biden&#8217;s White House told the outlet that the $350 million included grants awarded to a non-profit Bertagnolli ran, which conducted nationwide clinical trials on cancer prevention.
&#8220;These studies ensured that rural communities were part of these trials,&#8221; an administration official said. &#8220;Funding for large clinical trials like these come from a number of sources, including companies participating in the trials. That&#8217;s standard.&#8221;
Although the grants reportedly did not go to Bertagnolli, the watchdog group argued the physician-scientist likely had secondary funds &#8220;flowed through to her salary at [Boston&#8217;s] Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute where she is a researcher.&#8221;
According to the 2022-2023 financial disclosure forms included in the report, Bertagnolli reported $1,609,198 in salary and bonuses from the cancer institute.
President Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/15/president-biden-announces-intent-to-nominate-dr-monica-bertagnolli-as-director-of-the-national-institutes-of-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Bertagnolli&#8217;s nomination as NIH Director in May, calling her a &#8220;world-renowned surgical oncologist, cancer researcher, educator, and physician-leader who has the vision and leadership needed to deliver on NIH&#8217;s mission to seek fundamental knowledge and promote human health.&#8221;
During former President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, Bertagnolli vocalized her opposition to the president&#8217;s &#8220;Most Favored Nation&#8221; proposal, which aimed to slash prices of prescription drugs like Insulin by roughly 50%.
&#8220;This model, which imposes a nationwide, mandatory experiment without the ability to actually learn whether this is an optimal approach, will drastically cut reimbursement for a number of life-saving cancer drug treatments, significantly limiting access to care for Medicare beneficiaries,&#8221; Bertagnolli said while serving as the board chair of the Association of Clinical Oncology.
If confirmed by the Senate, Bertagnolli would become the institute&#8217;s first surgeon to serve as director.
The American College of Surgeons <a href="https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publications/news-and-articles/acs-brief/may-16-2023-issue/acs-fellow-dr-monica-bertagnolli-is-nominated-to-lead-nih/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the issues expected to be discussed during Dr. Bertagnolli&#8217;s Senate confirmation hearings include lowering prescription drug pricing and the agency&#8217;s COVID-19 response.

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Come for Morning Wire’s Afternoon Update’s straight news, but stay for the rapid reaction analysis. The following five stories, and more, can be heard on today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update podcast. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/biden-administration-appeal-twitter-threatens-legal-action-afternoon-update-7-6-23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here to listen</a>. 
1. Larry Nassar Stabbed: Report
Former U.S. gymnastics doctor and convicted child molester Larry Nassar was reportedly stabbed multiple times in the back and neck in an altercation at the United States Penitentiary Coleman Sunday night.  The extent of his injuries is unknown, but he is said to be in stable condition. The full report can be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/convicted-child-molester-larry-nassar-stabbed-in-prison-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read here</a>.
Rapid Reaction: Never forget that the FBI <a href="https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/fbi-director-addresses-failures-larry-nassar-case-during-indianapolis-stop-usa-gymnastics-biles-raisman-maroney-sue-settlement/531-60daed07-20dd-41a3-9e31-9c3892a0d432" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped</a> the ball on this guy long ago. The G-Men reportedly knew that Nassar was assaulting athletes at Michigan State University and elsewhere, but failed to open an investigation. It wasn&#8217;t until 2016 that the DOJ moved against Nassar.
The mistakes were so egregious that FBI Director Christopher Wray formally apologized.
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&#8220;Every great organization makes mistakes. What defines them is they learn from those mistakes,&#8221; Wray said in March 2023. &#8220;And I think we&#8217;re learning from them and we&#8217;re hellbent on making sure that what happened or more precisely what did not happen there, doesn&#8217;t ever occur again.&#8221;
So while the Right might view the FBI&#8217;s treatment of President Donald Trump, for example, as evidence that something is rotten with The Bureau, the truth is that it has been on the decline for quite some time. The decay is ubiquitous and not necessarily wholly political.
2. New York Dems Use Flooding To Push For Climate Change Funding
More than nine million Americans are under flood warnings in North Eastern states — including New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine. Heavy rainfall is causing mayhem, and now flash floods and even landslides are expected in those areas. Over 1,000 flights were delayed due to the flooding, and Amtrak temporarily suspended service along the popular Northeast Corridor. The full report can be read <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rare-flash-flood-warning-issued-new-york-woman-dies-trying-evacuate-rcna93346" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Rapid Reaction: New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIC92Cwi8wE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used</a> the tragedy to push for climate change funding and other big government programs on Tuesday.
&#8220;Yes, money is going to have to be part of the solution,&#8221; Hochul said of how New York will have to proceed in its supposed fight against climate change.
Somehow, spending taxpayer money is always part of the solution for the Left.
Failing schools?<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unions-complain-of-dire-teacher-shortages-ahead-of-new-school-year-push-for-more-funding" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Throw more money at it</a>!
Homeless? <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-has-spent-billions-to-end-homelessness-and-its-been-a-total-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Fork over billions</a>!
Climate change? <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-green-energy-boondoggle-keeps-getting-bigger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shell out more moolah</a>!
Want to have your classic New York pizza slice?<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-man-takes-on-woke-a-idiots-in-new-york-city-chants-give-us-pizza-or-give-us-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> That&#8217;ll cost you</a>! 
3. Wagner Leader Pledges Loyalty To Russia
Yevgeny Prigozhin <a href="https://www.walb.com/2023/07/10/russian-mercenary-leader-prigozhin-pledges-loyalty-kremlin-after-short-lived-mutiny/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> pledged loyalty to the Russian government in a Kremlin meeting with President Vladimir Putin just days after Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary group led a short-lived rebellion against the Russian President. Though Russia’s president branded him a traitor as the revolt unfolded and vowed harsh punishment, the criminal case against the mercenary chief was later dropped. However, he could still face prosecution for financial wrongdoing or other charges.
Rapid Reaction: The longer the Ukraine war goes on, the more people are asking, &#8220;What&#8217;s the endgame here?&#8221; On Monday, Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro tweeted an essay starting with the premise, &#8220;Western policy in Ukraine is incoherent, if not outright dangerous.&#8221;
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Western policy in Ukraine is incoherent, if not outright dangerous. We keep hearing our leaders repeating two phrases: &quot;as long as it takes&quot; and &quot;until Ukraine wins.&quot; The problem is that both are lies, and we all know it.
&quot;As long as it takes&quot; is always a lie in a democracy. See…
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1678406812012298243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Indeed, hardly anybody in support of Ukraine has stated what ultimate success actually looks like. Well, one guy has provided a clear end-game scenario: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has repeatedly said that regime change and/or the assassination of Putin should be the goal for the West. If Graham got his way, a guy like Prigozhin could come to power.
As this <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-the-wests-end-goal-in-ukraine-the-million-ruble-question-nobody-will-answer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">author wrote</a> in February 2023, &#8220;The West cannot define what &#8216;winning&#8217; looks like — but is asking U.S. taxpayers to help foot the bill to drag Ukraine over the finish line. In doing so, we just may wind up being dragged into a nuclear war with Russia.&#8221;
4. Tennessee Youth Soccer Coach Suspected Of Raping Unconscious Minors
A Tenessee youth soccer coach has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-youth-soccer-coach-suspected-of-raping-unconscious-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> after police say pictures and “unconscionable videos” were allegedly found on his phone revealing that he drugged and raped unconscious boys.
In late June, 63-year-old Camilo Hurtado Campos, of Franklin, Tennessee, left his phone at a restaurant, prompting a customer to hand it to employees. As employees went through the phone to identify its owner, they discovered the alarming content and contacted the police.  According to authorities, there is video evidence showing that at least ten minors were raped. Two minors have been identified, but police are working to identify the other victims. Detectives said some were in such an unconscious state they likely didn’t even realize what happened. The victims are expected between the ages of nine and 17. Campos would allegedly recruit young boys at playgrounds and schools to join his soccer team before taking advantage of them.
Rapid Reaction: It&#8217;s a dangerous world filled with creeps and the worst kind of perverts imaginable. And yet, for some reason, legacy Media outlets choose to disparage men like Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard for helping to expose the child sex-trafficking industry in their new movie, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sound-of-freedom-expected-to-hit-40-million-after-first-weekend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sound of Freedom</a>.&#8221;
While it&#8217;s unclear if Campos sold or trafficked children, it is clear that he posed a threat to the community and innocent minors, if the allegations are true. These sorts of dangers are around every corner — even in red states and conservative communities.
This author knows Franklin well. It is a generally safe, family-friendly own. In many ways, it feels like it has been frozen in time in the best possible way. Kids still ride freely on bikes. Strangers strike up conversations with each other. It has numerous parades and festivals replete with civic pride.
But simply because it&#8217;s idyllic doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s entirely safe. And despite what <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-caviezel-thanks-supporters-for-not-letting-the-media-silence-sound-of-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Legacy Media insists</a>, sexual threats to children are everywhere. It&#8217;s not paranoia to recognize that.
5. NIH Funding Research On The Effects Of Puberty Blockers
A Daily Wire investigative report has revealed that the National Institutes of Health is funding research on the effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatment on youth despite acknowledgment from the grantee that these medical interventions can result in sterility.
The NIH has doled out millions for similar studies around the country. That full original Daily Wire report can be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nih-funds-study-on-puberty-blockers-hormones-on-youth-despite-risk-of-sterilization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read here</a>.
Rapid Reaction: There&#8217;s a lot of money to be made in &#8220;trans-ing&#8221; the kids. Don&#8217;t take my word for it, listen to some of the so-called experts.
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Last September, The Daily Wire&#8217;s best-selling LGBTQ children&#8217;s author Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors">exposed</a>  University Medical Center’s Clinic for Transgender Health’s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor bragging about how radical gender surgeries were &#8220;big money maker.&#8221; 
Taylor also explained that individuals “just on routine hormone treatment, who I’m only seeing a few times a year, can bring in several thousand dollars … and actually makes money for the hospital.”
It would appear that hospitals also have incentives from our own government to encourage sex rejection and gender-denial procedures.
For example, the NIH is also giving more than $3.2 million to an effort from the Boston Children’s Hospital to produce a “trans health guide” that aims to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-senators-blast-nih-for-3-million-grant-to-expand-medical-transitions-for-minors">expand access</a> to sex changes for minors.
It&#8217;s all so perverse and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nih-funds-study-on-puberty-blockers-hormones-on-youth-despite-risk-of-sterilization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worth the read</a>. Why are our taxes going to this?
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding research on the effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatment on youth despite acknowledgment from the grantee that these medical interventions can result in sterility.
A <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/consent_forms-JOK.pdf">parent or guardian consent form</a> from Children&#8217;s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), titled “Pubertal Blockers for Minors in Early Adolescence,” states, “If your child starts puberty blockers in the earliest stages of puberty, and then goes on to gender affirming hormones, they will not develop sperm or eggs. This means that they will not be able to have biological children.”
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It goes on to read, “This is an important aspect of blocking puberty and progressing to hormones that you should understand prior to moving forward with puberty suppression.”  It adds that fertility can be maintained if a child takes puberty blockers but does not undergo cross-sex hormone therapy. <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243894">Two</a> different <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(22)00254-1/fulltext#%20">studies</a>, however, have found that roughly 98% of children who take puberty blockers go on to take cross-sex hormone therapy. 
After the parent/guardian decides to proceed with pubertal blocker medication, the consent form requires the signature of both the parent/guardian and the child (patient).
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb is the director of an advocacy group called <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/about/">Do No Harm</a>, which seeks to &#8220;protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology.&#8221; He criticized the idea of a minor possibly signing away their ability to reproduce.   
&#8220;Anyone who thinks a child reading this document will be able to give informed consent is engaging in a massive instance of self delusion,” Goldfarb told The Daily Wire. “Children simply cannot understand the impact of any of this on their bodies, and on their future.” 
The CHLA form echoes a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irreversible-infertility-listed-as-risk-of-hormone-therapy-on-trans-clinic-waiver">waiver</a> from the University of Virginia Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital Transgender Youth Health that listed “irreversible infertility” as a potential side effect of cross-sex hormone therapy.
“It is unconscionable that a hospital would use children as guinea pigs at the behest of the federal government — offering families a paltry sum,” said Nicki Neily, founder and president of Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit on a mission to &#8220;reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas.&#8221;
“Polling has consistently found that a majority of Americans oppose these procedures. For the federal government to fund this research with tax dollars, despite such widespread opposition, is truly insult to injury,” she continued.
An NIH-funded <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/OPTb_4f5-kOe2wU2YYzolA/project-details/10615754">study</a> at CHLA titled “The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth” focuses on the use of transgender drugs on youth. It is led by <a href="https://www.chla.org/profile/johanna-olson-kennedy-md">Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy</a>, the Medical Director for The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at CHLA, which describes itself as the “largest transgender youth clinic in the United States.” The project, which <a href="https://taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/AwardDetail?arg_AwardNum=R01HD082554&amp;arg_ProgOfficeCode=50">began</a> in fiscal year 2015 but is still ongoing, <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/OPTb_4f5-kOe2wU2YYzolA/project-details/10401756">boasts</a> that it “successfully recruited” two cohorts, consisting of “95 youth initiating pubertal suppression with gonadotropin releasing hormone analogs” as well as “316 youth initiating gender-affirming hormone (GAH) therapy (testosterone or estrogen).” It aims to &#8220;examine physiological and psychosocial effects of medical intervention for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth with gender dysphoria.&#8221;
Another form from CHLA obtained by Parents Defending Education reveals that patients were offered financial incentives to participate in the study. 
“In consideration of your time participating in this research, the study team would like to offer you payment,” it states before specifying that participants would receive $50 for each visit, totaling $400. 
It also adds, “you or a family member or friend you designate will receive reimbursement for parking and/or transportation, or be provided transportation as needed.”
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While CHLA is listed as the awardee organization, the study is carried out across four transgender youth clinics, including Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital, and the Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
The study <a href="https://taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/AwardDetail?arg_AwardNum=R01HD082554&amp;arg_ProgOfficeCode=50">received</a> $7,748,467 from 2015 to 2022 before securing another $963,441 in fiscal year 2023. The researchers note that the renewal would allow them to “evaluate the longer-term physiological and psychological impact of existing medical treatment protocols initiated in adolescence on youth with gender dysphoria for up to an additional 4 years.” They will attempt to “enhance the diversity and size of existing cohorts by enrolling additional youth of color (YOC) into both cohorts” as they continue the study. 
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While the researchers have stated that early results have shown &#8220;a positive trend regarding mental health response to gender affirming interventions,” a recent <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297">article</a> about the ongoing study reported “death by suicide occurred in 2 participants,” while 11 others experienced suicidal ideation.
Republican members of Congress responded to the deaths with a <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/09/exclusive-republicans-demand-answers-nih-transgender-youth-experiments-study-left-2-dead-others-sterilized/">letter</a> to NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak, citing “grave concerns” about the study while also pointing out that “the researchers admitted that they were not able to properly establish causality between the administration of cross-sex hormones and improved psychosocial functioning because their study lacked a control group.”
Meanwhile, the NIH is also giving more than $3.2 million to an effort from the Boston Children’s Hospital to produce a “trans health guide” that aims to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-senators-blast-nih-for-3-million-grant-to-expand-medical-transitions-for-minors">expand access</a> to sex changes for minors.
Neither CHLA nor NIH responded to requests for comment.

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has agreed to spend more than $3 million in taxpayer funds to expand access to sex change operations for minors, drawing criticism from Republican Senators Rand Paul (KY), Marco Rubio (FL), and Ted Budd (NC).
Titled the “<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_U01OD033248_7529" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TRANS-NIH RESEARCH SUPPORT</a>,” the agreement is between the NIH and the <a href="https://www.brighamandwomens.org/transgender-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham and Women’s Hospital</a>, as well as the Children’s Hospital Corporation, which <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/79099MF:US#xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does business</a> under the name of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-offering-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-kids-who-cant-even-drink-legally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Children’s Hospital</a>. The deal, which lists an obligated funding amount of $3,266,707, began in September 2021 and ends on August 31, 2023. 
The nearly $3.3 million plan aims to create a “Trans Health Guide” intended to “expand the local workforce of gender-affirming care providers” and “advance equity and reduce mental health disparities for TGD youth through … systemic changes that increase access to gender-affirming care.” 
People between the ages of 13 and 24 are considered transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth.
“As a senator and a physician, I am deeply concerned about the NIH&#8217;s use of taxpayer money to fund dangerous and controversial youth transgender research,&#8221; Sen. Paul told The Daily Wire. “The well-being of our youth is of utmost importance and subjecting them to harmful and experimental medical procedures is unacceptable.&#8221; 
The grant description claims that “access to gender-affirming care and family support are known to be critical determinants of mental health outcomes for TGD youth.”  The project focuses on “five southeastern states with large black transgender populations and limited access to gender-affirming care.”
Additionally, the program includes a “free online training course for continuing education credit,” as well as a platform to hold “consultations with specialists.” 
Sen. Rubio joined Paul in condemning the grant.
&#8220;The NIH should not use U.S. taxpayer dollars to encourage or promote transgenderism in children, especially when that means subjecting kids to damaging and irreversible surgeries and hormones,” Rubio told The Daily Wire. “The U.S. government should not overlook or diminish the biological reality that underpins human existence.”
“Promoting transgenderism among children raises significant concerns about their physical, social, and psychological well-being. We must protect the innocence and future of our children.&#8221;
The Trans Health Guide <a href="https://www.transhealthguide.info/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> goes into greater depth, explaining that healthcare providers “will be able to access free training materials on working with transgender and other gender-diverse youth” and “gender-affirming medical and mental health care.” 
The guide is designed to provide “an interactive educational digital platform for TGD youth and caregivers.” The site describes the project as a “multi-level intervention to improve the health of transgender and gender-diverse youth, focusing on TGD youth of color.”
“Our government should not be furthering the fallacy that chemically transitioning children is safe and effective,&#8221; said Sen. Tedd Budd (R-NC). “Taxpayer dollars should not be used to encourage gender transition interventions on young people.”
The NIH recently came under scrutiny after it was revealed that two individuals involved in its study on &#8220;Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones” committed suicide. 
Five Republican Senators, including Paul, Rubio, and Budd, along with ten GOP congressmembers, sent a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-demand-answers-nih-director-2-involved-transgender-youth-study-died-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the Acting Director of the NIH, Dr. Lawrence Tobak, blasting the study. 
&#8220;Rather than shutting the study down after such serious adverse events, the researchers published their paper, concluding that the study was a success because cross-sex hormones had altered subjects’ physical appearance and improved psychosocial functioning,&#8221; the letter said.
Boston Children’s Hospital, which has received heavy criticism over its medical transitioning of youth, was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-demand-answers-nih-director-2-involved-transgender-youth-study-died-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> as one of the participants in the study. 
January Littlejohn, a Senior Fellow Patient Advocate for <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FFNDWNXsBcZdmqZzMVxZLhMWFjSsLNNq">Do No Harm</a>, blasted the NIH’s support of child transgenderism as an “outrageous use of taxpayer money,” going on to criticize the medical research agency for pushing “irreversible, harmful treatment interventions on vulnerable and confused children.”
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“Boston Children’s Hospital lost all credibility when they released videos of their doctors stating children ‘<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11280475/Harvard-hospital-claims-babies-know-WOMB-transgender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seemingly know from the womb</a>’ they are transgender and <a href="https://www.childrenshospital.org/sites/default/files/media_migration/f0f27297-03a5-4650-b31c-c22b46bcffa6.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> to performing irreversible gender surgeries on minors,” she added. 
Dr. <a href="https://www.lgbtqiahealtheducation.org/us/faculty-advisory-board/jeremi-carswell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremi Carswell</a>, a pediatric endocrinologist and the director of the Gender Multispeciality Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital, has admitted on camera that puberty blockers are given out “like candy” and acknowledged they can cause fertility problems. She also said “providers are very, very swayed by our patients” in the field of transgender medical interventions. 
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WATCH 🚨: Director of the <a href="https://twitter.com/BostonChildrens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BostonChildrens</a> Gender Clinic admitted that puberty blockers can CAUSE INFERTILITY and are given to kids &quot;LIKE CANDY.&quot; 
Here&#39;s a thread of Dr. Jeremi Carswell&#39;s shocking statements, starting with her admission that puberty blockers can sterilize kids: <a href="https://t.co/U6XyY4H7wz">pic.twitter.com/U6XyY4H7wz</a>
&mdash; Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1579559275709759488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm&#8217;s board chair, contrasted the NIH’s support for transgender medical interventions with the approach taken by other developed Western nations.
“What is needed from our government is the same commitment that Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK have made to protecting children from undergoing these life altering procedures,” he said. 
The NIH and the Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital did not respond to a request for comment.

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Republican Senators Blast NIH For $3 Million Grant To Expand Medical Transitions For Minors

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The National Institutes of Health is set to spend more than $1.4 million in taxpayer funds to back a study on “anti-racist healing in nature.”
The study, which is currently being performed by San Francisco State University, began in September 2021 and is scheduled to conclude in August 2023. While the obligated funding for the research was $1,045,078, a revision to the agreement, dated June 7, 2023, notes that an additional $387,308 had been provided, bringing the total to $1,432,387. 
<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_U01OD033243_7529">Formally titled</a> “Examining Anti-Racist Healing in Nature to Protect Telomeres of Transitional Age BIPOC for Health Equity,” the <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10414504">study</a> posits that racial health disparities likely persist “due to racism and discrimination that increase chronic stress and limits access to the social determinants of health.”
The description of the grant says it is “community-prioritized research that will engage ancestral knowledges from different communities of color in a multilevel effort to address growing health disparities via intersectoral collaborators.” The strategy includes ensuring “equitable access to physical activity in public parks.” 
“Health disparities are linked to chronic stress and the proposed research will gather knowledge about anti-racist healing in nature as a tool for stress reduction in BIPOC young adults,” the description continues. It also boasts that the $1.4 million study utilizes “cost-effective, low-resource interventions.”
“Although nature is an ancestral healing place for many communities, these spaces can be unwelcoming, unsafe, or triggering for people of color,” San Francisco State University’s <a href="https://reclaimingnature.sfsu.edu/node/51">website</a> reads.
One <a href="https://news.sfsu.edu/archive/news-story/innovative-research-investigates-health-benefits-reclaiming-nature.html">article</a> on the study published by SF State News reports, while “many individuals turn to nature for solace” in times of trouble, “this seemingly simple intervention is not always accessible to Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) communities.”
Those who’d like to participate in the study, informally dubbed “<a href="https://reclaimingnature.sfsu.edu/healinginnature/hood-woods-join-study">From Hood to Woods</a>,” must be between the ages of 18 and 26 and “identify as a person from the latine/x/o, Black, Pacific Islander, and/or Filipinx community.” Participants will receive more than $100 in compensation and will be taken on “Free weekend trips and rides to the Redwoods!”
A promotional poster encourages people to join the &#8220;community-engaged research project to reclaim nature in the Bay Area.&#8221;
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The site also tells study participants to <a href="https://reclaimingnature.sfsu.edu/reclaimingnature/photovoice-resources">consider</a> “What do anti-racist green spaces look like?” as well as “How do greenspaces make you feel ‘welcomed’ or ‘un-welcomed’?”
The grant funding is part of a <a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-highly-innovative-nih-research-awards-address-health-disparities-advance-health-equity">broader program</a> from the NIH aimed at advancing &#8220;health equity&#8221; and decreasing health disparities between different demographic groups.
The NIH and San Francisco State University did not respond to a request for comment.

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National Institutes Of Health To Spend $1.4 Million For ‘Anti-Racist Healing In Nature’ Study

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sunny-hostin-slams-desantis-for-announcing-with-unpopular-elon-musk-her-own-producers-fact-check-her-on-the-air" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> responded Thursday to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rfk-jr-says-ron-desantis-invited-him-to-breakfast-revealed-plan-to-burn-the-national-institutes-of-health-to-the-ground/ar-AA1b4pBl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> that he had advocated burning the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) &#8220;to the ground,&#8221; and he didn&#8217;t back down an inch.
DeSantis, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/forget-the-internet-elon-musk-and-ron-desantis-broke-john-cusack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officially announced his candidacy</a> for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, made it clear that complete destruction of those particular institutions might be going too easy on them.
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MUST WATCH: Governor <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a> addresses reports that he said he hopes to “burn” the CDC and NIH “to the ground” <a href="https://t.co/aXwCNDHRJr">pic.twitter.com/aXwCNDHRJr</a>
&mdash; DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1661799202492481541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“There was a report that — I had spoken with Bobby Kennedy Jr., and he had said that ‘the governor said that you know, that we need to burn to the ground the CDC’ and all these things,” DeSantis began.
“And I just want to be very clear, full disclosure,” DeSantis continued. “I was not that kind to CDC and NIH and any of those [agencies]. Just for the record, just so your viewers don’t think I’m going soft, but I can’t think of a more catastrophic response than how this country responded to COVID, particularly at the federal level.”
DeSantis went on to call out the CDC directly, along with former Coronavirus Task Force leader Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the FDA.
“And nothing has been done about it, to hold any of those folks accountable,” he said.
DeSantis, a longtime <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-i-had-my-druthers-ron-desantis-knows-exactly-what-hed-do-with-dr-anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critic of Fauci</a> in particular, also took a swipe at former President Donald Trump and argued that by putting Fauci in charge, Trump bore some responsibility for the U.S. response to the pandemic.
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DeSantis on Trump Covid response: 
&quot;When he turned the country over to Fauci… that destroyed millions of people&#39;s lives.” <a href="https://t.co/wZipXzhJh9">pic.twitter.com/wZipXzhJh9</a>
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“When he turned the country over to Fauci in March of 2020, that destroyed millions of people&#8217;s lives,” DeSantis said of Trump, saying that up to that point, he believed the former president had done a good job with regard to policy.
Once Fauci was allowed to influence policies such as shutting down schools and businesses, however, DeSantis argued that Florida had essentially stood alone in its efforts to keep things open.
&#8220;Florida, since COVID, has out-performed virtually any state in the country,&#8221; he said.

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Suspicions have arisen that the U.S. government may have paid tens of millions of dollars in superfluous payments to labs in Wuhan, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">China</a>.
The payments were ostensibly made through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-government-agencies-may-have-been-double-billed-projects-wuhan-china-records-indicate-probe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.
“What I&#8217;ve found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds. It is concerning, especially since it involves dangerous pathogens and risky research,” former federal investigator Diane Cutler, who examined 50,000 documents including U.S. government grants for high risk research in China.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), who hired Cutler to investigate, wants to crerate a 9/11 type commission to ascertain what actually happened. “I think there&#8217;s 1.1 million reasons that American taxpayers should care,” he said. “You&#8217;ll have a plane [crash]. We want to find out why the plane crashes. We go to any lengths to do that. And the hope is we don&#8217;t have another plane crash for the same reason.”
Robert Redfield, the former director of the CDC, recently testified that the NIH, the State Department, USAID and the Defense Department funded high-risk virus research in Wuhan.
Redfiled was <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/08/6-takeaways-as-house-covid-19-panel-investigates-china-lab-leak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) about Dr. Anthony Fauci testifying in 2021 that there was no U.S. funding for gain-of-function research (gain-of-function is a process whereby a disease is is exacerbated in order to study its response) in China.
“Do you think that Dr. Fauci intentionally lied under oath to Sen. Paul when he vehemently denied NIH’s funding of gain-of-function research?” Malliotakis asked
 “I think there is no doubt NIH was funding gain-of-function research,” Redfield answered.
 “Is it likely American tax dollars funded the gain-of-function research that created this virus?” Malliotakis asked.
“I think it did, not only from the NIH but the State Department, from USAID, and from DOD,” Redfield replied.
In January, a <a href="https://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region5/52100025.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stated, “NIH did not effectively monitor or take timely action to address” compliance problems involving the EcoHealth Alliance, which received a grant from the NIH and sent some of those funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
NIH granted nearly $600,000 to EcoHealth Alliance that then went to WIV. OIG <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/federal-watchdog-finds-problems-nih-oversight-grant-funding-bat-virus-research-china">recommended</a> that WIV be stopped from receiving NIH funding in the future.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-has-a-gigantic-wall-filled-with-portraits-of-himself-in-his-home-office/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a>’s federal science agency and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-nih-letter-about-ecohealth-reporting-failure-raises-new-questions-about-gain-of-function-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EcoHealth Alliance</a>, which took a U.S. grant for bat virus research and paid part of it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, made serious missteps, government investigators said Tuesday.
EcoHealth Alliance did not properly disclose its subgrant recipients—which included the Chinese lab which may have been the origin of COVID—and was two years late in filing a report that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded may have revealed “gain of function,” or experiments which make a virus more dangerous to humans, the Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Inspector General said in a <a href="https://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region5/52100025.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">72-page report</a>. Fauci headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which oversaw the grant and is part of NIH.
&#8220;Our audit found that NIH’s own evaluation of the Year 5 progress report concluded that the research was of a type that should have been reported immediately to NIH,&#8221; it said.  The Year 5 report was filed two years late, but the IG said NIH &#8220;did not effectively monitor or take timely action&#8221; despite knowing about potential risks.
“This oversight failure is particularly concerning because NIH had previously raised concerns with EcoHealth about the nature of the research being performed. Once NIH received and reviewed the late progress report, NIH concluded the research resulted in a virus with enhanced growth,” it said.
EcoHealth Alliance, for its part, said that NIH had never followed up to ask for the late report or information about its subgrantees, and that it seemed to be on good terms with the agency given that it continued to give it funding. After the coronavirus pandemic, NIH terminated EcoHealth’s grant, and EcoHealth successfully appealed the termination—though NIH nonetheless “suspended” it.
Following the coronavirus pandemic, NIH asked EcoHealth for additional information out of Wuhan, but the lab refused to give it to EcoHealth.
EcoHealth’s president, Peter Daszak, was part of the World Health Organization-China team that dismissed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-investigation-concludes-covid-likely-originated-from-a-chinese-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lab leak</a> hypothesis as “extremely unlikely”—despite having been involved in bat coronavirus projects at Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
A former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-says-covid-leaked-from-wuhan-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Andrew Huff</a>, wrote a book titled &#8220;The Truth About Wuhan&#8221; that claimed “EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
In 2014, NIAID awarded a $3.7 million grant to EcoHealth for &#8220;Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.&#8221; The government banned gain-of-function research later that year.
EcoHealth paid $600,000 to WIV and $200,000 to the Wuhan University School of Public Health. Grantees are responsible for their subgrantees under federal regulations, the report said.
&#8220;EcoHealth officials met with WIV staff in person on at least 20 occasions between June 2014 and December 2019 and traveled to Wuhan, China, to meet with individuals from WIV at least annually during that time to discuss the research conducted under its subaward. EcoHealth staff told OIG that they engaged in frequent phone calls and email exchanges with WIV staff throughout,&#8221; auditors said.
In 2016, NIAID told EcoHealth that it &#8220;had determined that the research could be gain-of-function and subject to the funding pause on certain gain-of-function research,&#8221; and asked for information from EcoHealth. The group replied that &#8220;it was highly unlikely that this work would have any pathogenic potential,&#8221; but that &#8220;should any of these recombinants show evidence of enhanced virus growth greater than certain specified benchmarks involving log growth increases, or grow more efficiently in human airway epithelial cells, EcoHealth would immediately: (1) stop all experiments with the mutant [and] (2) inform the NIAID.&#8221;
The inspector general did not weigh in on whether NIAID’s determination that EcoHealth’s work did not constitute gain-of-function was accurate, saying it did not have the scientific expertise, but noted that staff should “err on the side of inclusion when determining whether to refer research that may involve [gain-of-function] for further review.”
In 2017, the ban was partially lifted to allow gain-of-function research in limited circumstances approved by a special HHS committee. In 2018, NIH determined that that approval was not necessary for EcoHealth’s work, but it appeared a close enough call that it inserted a special provision for its five-year report that “should experiments proposed in this award result in a virus with enhanced growth by more than certain specified benchmarks involving log growth increases, EcoHealth must notify NIAID immediately.”
That five-year report was due September 2019, a few months before the global pandemic began. “However, not until after NIH requested the progress report in July 2021 did EcoHealth submit it on August 3, 2021, nearly 2 years late,” auditors said.
When NIH finally saw the report, it “believed there was evidence that the research conducted by EcoHealth’s subrecipient WIV during Year 5 resulted in enhanced growth by more than one log, thus triggering the special term and condition to immediately notify NIAID and potentially requiring the research to undergo review under the HHS P3CO Framework.”
In a response to the IG, EcoHealth quibbled about what metric should be used, and also said that similar findings were in its Year 4 report, so the agency should have known. NIH said describing the results of experiments in scheduled reports is not the same as “immediately notifying” it.
Auditors found that EcoHealth did not properly report information about its subgrantees.
&#8220;Until NIH informed EcoHealth in July 2020 that it was not in compliance with these reporting requirements for its subawards, EcoHealth did not report any of its subawards on the FSRS website according to Federal requirements,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;EcoHealth had not complied with the subaward reporting 
requirement for at least 5 years. Not reporting required subaward information limits NIH and the general public’s visibility into, and transparency of, how these grant funds were used.&#8221;
That&#8217;s something NIH should have detected, auditors wrote: &#8220;we believe NIH’s monitoring of EcoHealth’s grants should have revealed EcoHealth’s failure to comply with the subaward disclosure requirement as early as 2016.&#8221;
Ironically, EcoHealth said it has been unable to travel to supervise its subrecipients recently because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The report also said that EcoHealth should &#8220;refund to the Federal Government $89,171 in unallowable costs&#8221; including for paying bonuses and salaries in excess of a $180,000 cap. EcoHealth said it has repaid that money, but contended that NIH still owes it a larger amount in other unreimbursed spending.
Even after the pandemic, and while its five-year report remained unfiled, NIH gave more grants to EcoHealth—including special conditions that were the result of NIH’s awareness of EcoHealth’s lack of disclosure about WIV. In June 2020, it awarded EcoHealth another $3 million for viruses in Asia, and in September 2020, $1.1 million for human outbreaks of bat viruses.
After the five-year report that NIH believed may have shown gain-of-function, it yet again gave the group another award. Shortly before Fauci stepped down from four decades leading NIAID, EcoHealth received another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-pal-at-center-of-covid-lab-leak-suspicions-gets-new-bat-virus-grant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$3.3 million</a> for a grant running through 2027.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) <a href="https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2021-03-12%20Letter%20to%20HHS%20OIG%20Stevens%20Amendment%20Request.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> the IG to examine the funding in March 2021. On Tuesday after the release of the IG report, she introduced a bill to prohibit government funding to EcoHealth. Ernst&#8217;s office said that since 2008, EcoHealth has collected nearly $80 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars, including $46 million from the Department of Health, $16.5 million from HHS, and $11.2 from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
“The Biden administration is funding EcoHealth to search for risky viruses in places all across the globe, except where they might actually find them: in their own lab experiments,&#8221; Ernst said in a statement Tuesday. “While NIH certainly shares in the blame, EcoHealth Alliance is ultimately at fault for failing to tell the world what was really going on at China’s Wuhan Institute. They are guilty of either complacency or a cover-up&#8230; We can’t afford any more of EcoHealth’s ‘prevention’ efforts. That’s why we must permanently ban them from receiving taxpayer dollars ever again.”
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