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Russell Vought: “The NIH spent $2 million for injecting dogs with cocaine.”

Featuring: Russell Vought, Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget | National

Full Interview: OMB Director Russell Vought on "Face the Nation"

Published July 27, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:13

Are those funds going to be released again? We're going through the same process with the NIH that we did with The NIH spent $2 million for injecting dogs with cocaine. that the NIH spent money on. $75,000 for Harvard to study blowing lizards off of trees with leaf blowers. (06:13–06:20)

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Asserts that the National Institutes of Health spent $2 million on a study involving dogs and cocaine.

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“The appropriations process is broken. It leads to omnibus bills.”
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