President Donald Trump has just signed an executive order to crack down on “dangerous gain-of-function research.”
Trump’s order blocks federal taxpayer money from going toward gain-of-function research.
The controversial practice is linked to the COVID-19 origins in China and other countries.
Trump signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House.
He was joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, and others.
“It’s a big deal,” Trump said.
Alluding to the Covid pandemic, Trump continued:
“It could have been that we wouldn’t have had the problem we had if we had this done earlier.”
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🚨 BREAKING: @POTUS just signed an executive order protecting Americans from dangerous gain-of-function research.
The order:
— Ends any present and all future Federal funding of dangerous gain-of-function research in countries of concern like China and Iran and in foreign… pic.twitter.com/4Cn7iQ4i3L
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 5, 2025
The order halts federal funding for “dangerous” gain-of-function research conducted in China.
The U.S. taxpayer-funded biolabs in China are believed to be ground zero for the COVID-19 outbreak in 2019.
The virus, the various lockdowns and other measures, and the “vaccines” that followed have led to millions of deaths around the world.
These gain-of-function experiments are being conducted in China and other foreign countries with “insufficient” levels of oversight.
The issue has created immense risks to public health and national security.
Gain-of-function research involves scientists enhancing viruses to make them more dangerous to humans.
It often involved modifying viruses that infect animals to make them jump to people and spread.
Those behind the researcher, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, claim the experiments are meant to study potential treatments or prepare for future outbreaks.
However, the research has become a major focus of the lab leak theory increasingly favored by U.S. agencies.
Last year, the federal government suspended funds to EcoHealth Alliance.
The U.S.-based nonprofit group was receiving millions of tax dollars in grant money as it faced intense scrutiny for its collaboration with a lab in Wuhan, China, suspected in the Covid outbreak.
Dr. Fauci denied under oath that NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan.
However, he did not convince Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
Paul, who is also a physician, accused the longtime health official of lying to Congress with a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.
While former President Joe Biden issued Fauci a preemptive pardon before leaving office, the Trump administration may yet have more to say on the matter.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently said her team is working with Bhattacharya.
Gabbard said she hopes to release information “very soon” on gain-of-function and its links to the Covid outbreak.
Trump’s executive order also mandates stricter oversight, transparency, and enforcement mechanisms for federally funded life-science research, while demanding frameworks for regulating non-federally funded research and nucleic acid synthesis to prevent misuse.
“Anthony Fauci essentially restarted the bio-weapons arms race and did it under the pretention [sic] of developing vaccines — eventually moving his experiments offshore, mainly to the Wuhan Lab,” Kennedy said on X.
“[The president] today moved to shut down this kind of research in this country and to stop funding it abroad.”
Anthony Fauci essentially restarted the bio-weapons arms race and did it under the pretention of developing vaccines — eventually moving his experiments offshore, mainly to the Wuhan Lab. @POTUS today moved to shut down this kind of research in this country and to stop funding it… pic.twitter.com/7YvSznuOAn
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 6, 2025
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