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Sen. Rand Paul proposes legislation to create security board to review and approve funding for ‘high-risk life sciences research’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday Risk Research Review ActThe bill would create an independent national security committee to review and approve “high-risk life sciences research” projects seeking federal funding. This first-of-its-kind proposal would create a Life Sciences Research Security Board within the executive branch, responsible for providing “oversight of life sciences research funding across […]

The Abortion Access Amendment Is Getting Most Of Its Funding From Outside Arizona

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s bad enough that the abortion lobby is fully committed to its disturbing agenda to enshrine abortion up until birth in the Arizona Constitution. But now, it appears, that the overwhelming majority of the funding to get this measure on our ballot in November isn’t even coming from within our […]

A Reckoning May Be Coming for Universities on Foreign Funding

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The sword of Damocles hanging over much of what the new GOP-led House is planning to investigate in any number of coming hearings – everything from COVID origins to tech/government collusion – is the influence of the Communist Party of China. And why wouldn’t it be? Now that President Biden’s […]

Damon Lindelof calls on Biden to drop out of race, asks donors to withhold funding

Damon Lindelof, a Hollywood showrunner and longtime Democratic donor, Deadline article He called on President Biden to resign and urged Democrats to “stop” funding candidates who need to drop out of the race. “My name is Damon Lindelof,” he wrote. “I am a lifelong Democrat and I love our complex and wonderful country. I am […]

Senate negotiators to mark up first batch of 2025 funding bills next week

The powerful Senate Appropriations Committee remains on schedule to consider its first package of fiscal 2025 budget proposals next week, even as Republicans and Democrats struggle to reach an overall agreement on how to fund the government for much of next year. The committee will consider annual budget plans for the Departments of Agriculture, Veterans […]

Alzheimer’s Researcher Indicted for $16 Million NIH Funding Fraud

A federal grand jury has reportedly indicted Hoau-Yan Wang, 67, a professor of medicine at the City University of New York, on charges of falsifying data to fraudulently obtain $16 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of a controversial Alzheimer’s disease drug and diagnostic test. Ars […]

Nvidia rival Groq AI set to raise $300M in funding round

Groq AI, a buzzy startup competing with AI chip supplier Nvidia, is set to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a new funding round, The Washington Post has learned. The Mountain View, California-based company, which is not affiliated with Grok, a chatbot developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s startup xAI, is seeking to raise $300 […]

Vets deserve better than confusion on defense funding and VA staffing 

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was one of the last vestiges of bipartisan unity in Congress. Our elected officials stick together on almost everything these days, and differences are often put aside to support America’s troops. until now. Today, the bill has become a multi-billion dollar game of bumbling, with those who have given […]

House approves trio of funding bills as spending fight looms

The House of Representatives approved three government funding bills on Friday, but the White House has already threatened to veto the bills if they reach President Biden’s desk, setting the stage for a tough spending fight later this year. The three measures, aimed at funding overseas operations and the departments of Defense, State and Homeland […]