Jon Husted: “President Trump recently issued an executive order this week…”

“Thank you, Mr. O' Neill, for your willingness to serve and provide testimony today and answer our questions. I look forward to working with you and Secretary to improve health outcomes. You have a very important job. President Trump recently issued an executive order this week that would prohibit federal funding for potentially dangerous life science research, such as gain of function research in adversarial countries of concern. For example, China, which is home of the Wuhan Institute of virology and the SARS CoV2 coronavirus that killed people around the world, closed schools, cost this government at least $5 trillion and left a wake of devastation behind it.” (00:17–00:33)

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