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White House ordered NIH to cancel coronavirus research funding, Fauci says:
The National Institutes of Health abruptly cut off funding to a long-standing, well-regarded research project on bat coronaviruses only after the White House specifically told it to do so, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fauci made the revelation Tuesday at a Congressional hearing on the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is caused by a coronavirus that is genetically linked to those found in bats. Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) asked Fauci why the NIH abruptly canceled funding for the project, which specifically worked to understand the risk of bat coronaviruses jumping to humans and causing devastating disease.
Fauci responded to Veasey saying: "It was cancelled because the NIH was told to cancel it."
"And why were they told to cancel it?" Veasey pressed.
"I don't know the reason, but we were told to cancel it," Fauci said.
After the hearing, Fauci clarified to Politico that it was the White House that told the NIH to cancel the funding. An unnamed White House official told Politico that the White House did encourage the funding cut, but ultimately it was the Department of Health and Human Services—of which the NIH is a part—that made the final decision. An HHS spokesperson said only that the funding was cut because "the grantee was not in compliance with NIH's grant policy."
In an emailed statement to Ars Wednesday, the NIH did not respond to questions about the cancellation, saying only that "NIH does not discuss internal deliberations on grant terminations."
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @06:34PM (13 children)
The corrupt machine politicians on the "opposing" team gave him the victory.
We all knew exactly what he is like, and look at what you people put up against him. Shameful! The voters are only getting what they asked for. Fuckin' up the rest of the world though, huh? So, since nobody wants to undo this, how do we contain it?
And, contrary to the headline, cutting the fundage isn't "politics", it's strictly business
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @09:01PM (7 children)
And yet you voted for him in the primaries. Was he running against Hillary then ? Were all the other republican candidates worse in your eyes ?
What kind of pathetic sorry excuse will you come up with this time, fucking trumptards ?
(Score: 3, Funny) by hendrikboom on Friday June 26 2020, @10:32PM (1 child)
I get that the "trum" part of "trumptard" likely refers to the president of the united states.
But the "tard" I find a bit obscure. Is it formed from "bastard" or "retard" or maybe "leotard"?
At least "leotard" contains an allusion to a lion.
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @12:36AM
Actually, if you combine them all together you start approaching the insanity that is the true meaning.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @12:09AM (3 children)
And yet you voted for him in the primaries.
Nope, not me. Again you lie, typical democrat, can't look in the mirror
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Saturday June 27 2020, @03:25AM
Good one Anonymous Coward! Really owning the libs there.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday June 27 2020, @02:57PM (1 child)
Weren't some of the Republican primaries even cancelled? Or did they just refuse to let anyone run against Trump in those states? Or am I misinformed altogether?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @11:31PM
Not enough people care to do anything about it.
But many of the democrat primaries are setting up nicely. Goes to show the voters do shape the party in their image, consciously or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @05:40AM
And exactly who would you have voted for in the primaries?
Get some other loser Republocrook that cant even beat the criminally insane Hillary?
(Score: 4, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Saturday June 27 2020, @03:27AM (4 children)
Jesus that's stupid.
"Oh look, they've nominated Hillary, she's terrible. I know, let's nominate someone even worse. That'll show 'em.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @04:25AM
Biden Biden Bi... *cry*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @07:59AM (2 children)
DNC/GOP doesn't care between Clinton and Trump. Only the deluded voters fantasize about a difference. 40 years of grooming made Trump inevitable. And people think that reelecting them again will fix everything. Strange what you consider "stupid".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @02:06PM (1 child)
There seem to be very rich, powerful and influential people that feel there is a difference. They are spending a lot of money to wreaking a lot of destruction to punish the deluded voters for having elected Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @08:35PM
Please... It's entertainment, to keep minds from wandering off the DNC/GOP plantation. They only want to set the clock back, help people forget, so reelection rates remain in the 90% range.