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Tammy Baldwin: “$500 million in contracts were terminated, $100 million…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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'That's Just Not Accurate': Tammy Baldwin, NIH Director Go Back And Forth Over Vaccine Funding

Published | Video Starts at 02:57

NIH has a tremendous number of amazing scientists, some of whom you see here at the table with me, there's a normal process for deciding which projects get funded. $500 million in contracts were terminated, $100 million redirected to 80 year old technology without competition. And the researcher, one of them is best known for being a COVID vaccine skeptic, had his lab's annual operating Budget increased by more than 50 times. (02:57–03:09)

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Asserts that $100 million was redirected to old technology without competition after $500 million in contracts were terminated.

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