Trump Signs EO Restricting ‘Gain of Function’ Research That Enhances Pathogens
Meanwhile, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on The Ingraham Angle, and alleged that Dr. Anthony Fauci played a central role in moving dangerous “gain-of-function” virus research offshore to places like Wuhan.
Just over five years after the country locked down because of COVID, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that significantly restricts and, in many cases, ends federal funding for “gain-of-function” research experiments that alter pathogens to make them more transmissible or dangerous.
The order targets domestic and foreign research, focusing on countries of concern such as China and Iran, where U.S. officials believe oversight is insufficient (like…China).
For over a decade, scientists have debated the risks and benefits of so-called “gain of function” research. They’ve long tinkered with viruses and bacteria to endow them with new functions like producing insulin for people with diabetes. Some researchers have modified bird flu viruses in order to figure out which mutations might be crucial for producing pandemic strains that could spread among people.
Although such experiments may have benefits, critics have maintained that the risk of an accidentally created pandemic was not worth taking. In 2014, all federal funding was halted on experiments that could make certain viruses more dangerous. The first Trump administration lifted that ban in 2017 and instituted a new procedure to review possibly dangerous research.
The debate over gain of function research sharpened during the pandemic. Mr. Trump and other elected officials have linked such research to the origin of Covid, claiming that Chinese researchers produced the coronavirus in a lab in Wuhan.
…The new policy would end support for gain of function research that was deemed dangerous and was conducted in countries of concern, including China. It would also impose new constraints on research within the United States. The executive order also calls for the government to develop a strategy to oversee potentially dangerous research carried out without federal funds within the United States.
The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Security Advisor were directed to implement the policy with funding agencies within the next 4 months. Furthermore, researchers violating the policy could face a five-year cutoff from federal life-sciences grants.
Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on The Ingraham Angle, where Kennedy alleges that Dr. Anthony Fauci played a central role in moving dangerous “gain-of-function” virus research offshore, specifically to the Wuhan lab in China, after a U.S. moratorium in 2014.
Kennedy claims this research, banned initially by President Nixon in 1969, was revived post-9/11 under the pretext of vaccine development, and that several U.S. agencies now believe these experiments likely led to the COVID pandemic. He praised President Trump’s executive order banning federal funding for such research and criticized the Biden administration for expanding HHS bureaucracy, while asserting that his reforms are cutting waste without harming essential health programs.
Perhaps the most damning part in this report for Fauci was RFK Jr. noting there were three separate pathogen releases in 2014. The year is intriguing and may explain why Fauci’s pardon from Biden goes back 11 years.
Finally, someone connects the dots.
“In 2014, after 3 of Fauci’s bugs escaped, 300 scientists asked Obama to shut him down. Obama declared a moratorium—but Fauci moved the experiments offshore, mainly to the Wuhan lab. Now our own government—CIA, FBI, State, DOE—all say those… pic.twitter.com/vXIZe3n50b
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 6, 2025
The releases are as follows:
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) at the CDC: In June 2014, up to 75 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees were potentially exposed to live anthrax bacteria. A biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) lab failed to properly inactivate anthrax samples before transferring them to lower-security labs, where staff handled them without adequate protective equipment because they believed the bacteria were dead.
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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1): In March 2014, a CDC laboratory accidentally shipped a sample of H9N2 avian influenza virus that was contaminated with the highly dangerous H5N1 strain to a USDA poultry lab. The error was discovered when the USDA tested the sample, but CDC leadership was not notified until months later.
Smallpox (Variola virus): In July 2014, six vials labeled as smallpox (Variola) dating back to the 1950s were discovered in a storage room at an FDA lab on the NIH campus. Two vials contained live virus. These forgotten samples raised concerns about the inventory and security of dangerous pathogens.
All of this is troubling. We are probably lucky that the one bug that did escape and became a pandemic caused nothing more than a bad cold in most healthy people who did not have comorbidities or were obese. It could have been far worse.
RFK, Jr. Destroys What’s Left of the Fauci “legacy” https://t.co/qIzQAclA6n
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 6, 2025
However, Fauci is not the only villain in this saga. Dr. Deborah Birx and all the other “experts” who smothered information about gain-of-function research, pressed the ‘natural origin’ theory of COVID, and pushed the destructive lockdown policies on this nation must also be held accountable for their actions.
Let’s hope the research community and policymakers have learned some valuable lessons. The next “accidental release” could be worse.
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How will this effect our secret biolabs in Ukraine?
Russia alleged that the United States is operating secret biological laboratories in Ukraine that was to be used against them. Everyone else denied it but looking back now at what we know about Fauci…..
99% of all “secret biolab” reports are pure poo. Every country operates agricultural stations to identify potential outbreaks of diseases like African Swine Fever (ASF) which is terrifying to hog producers, or invasive species of critters like Emerald Ash Borers. APHIS in the US is practically everywhere, from capturing and examining waterfowl for bird flu, to deer populations where chronic wasting disease is a perpetual threat. That 1% left over is the troubling part, but even there, scientists have a well-groomed sense of paranoia over any accidental release and strict procedures in practically every process. They’re not perfect (as Wuhan shows obviously) but they’re nothing like the Umbrella Corp. (thankfully)
Poo.
As I understand the Trump EO, it bans GOF research in US funded and controlled labs overseas. There are probably hundreds of them. But I’m hearing from people who read the fine print and they are saying that the EO does not ban GOF research in the U.S. Susie Wiles, DJT’s chief of staff, who had/has deep connections to BigPharma, is given credit for this. If this is so, it would mean one of two things: Trump got fooled again, or the whole damn 2.0 iteration is nothing more than theater. Looking at those circuit courts, and how they are ‘winning,’ I’m tilting toward theater.
they alllll have “deep” connections to big pharma
big oil etc
the difference is the maga job is define the boundaries between gov and control of big pharma etc and those that want to “partner” /control businesses
Obama had an EO that banned GOF in the US,..that’s why Fauci gave The Eco Health Alliance money to be laundered and sent to Wuhan
Gain is the scary aspect. Enhancing attributes may be a noble pursuit but the peculiarity of gain is the linearity disappears from modulationwhen gain is enhanced. That is why a Marshall amplifier sounds good, not because they go to eleven but because they go to 10².
But Fauci is SCIENCE!!!
Really no repercussions for anyone?
“Furthermore, researchers violating the policy could face a five-year cutoff from federal life-sciences grants.”
“I was responsible for a pandemic that killed tens of millions of people.
Sh*t.
Now I have to spend five years managing a division at Pfizer.”
More evidence that the vile Fraudci should be sitting in a federal prison cell, in an orange jumpsuit.
Not only Fauci, but what kind of a demented SOB would intentionally take a not harmful to humans virus and make it deadly?
By Monday, a Federal Judge will rule that “scientists” have a Constitutional right to enhance pathogens however they want. Plus, because it is “science” the federal government must give them billions of dollars in grants
Can we please test this preemptive pardon get out of jail free card at SCOTUS?
It’s comforting to know that the U. S. is abandoning this theater of warfare to the CCP and others.
It’s on a par with the Mutually Assured Destruction strategy that Henry Kissinger was so enamored of.
The idea that something is soooo dangerous that we shouldn’t engage in always means that everyone else will follow our lead.
Imagine what would have happened if FDR hadn’t authorized the Manhattan Project.
Our current leaders are fools.
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