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Russell Vought: “The NIH was weaponized against the American people over the…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 06:30

$75,000 for Harvard to study blowing lizards off of trees with leaf blowers. That's the kind of waste that we've seen at the nih and that's not even getting to the extent to which The NIH was weaponized against the American people over the last several years with regard to funding gain of function research that caused the pandemic. We have an agency that needs dramatic overhaul. Thankfully we have a great new ahead of it. But we're going to have to go line by line to make sure the NIH is funding. (06:30–06:39)

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Asserts that the NIH funded gain of function research, which allegedly caused the pandemic.

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