President Trump Signs Executive Order Defunding Gain-Of-Function Research

Posted • May 6, 2025: We're old enough to remember when the Washington Post tried to shame Sen. Tom Cotton for spreading the "debunked" conspiracy theory that the coronavirus could have escaped from a lab — it took the paper 15 months to update that headline. We're old enough to remember Sen. Rand Paul grilling Anthony Fauci on funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They weren't eating bats … they were experimenting on bats to see if they could make a biological weapon. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning the funding of gain-of-function research overseas. —— Trump signs Executive Order to end federal funding for gain-of-function virus research which many now believe caused the COVID pandemic. —— And just like that, Fauci and his Chinese cohorts are put on notice. The same Fauci who accepted a preemptive pardon from President Joe Biden. (…)

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