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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) has brought Dr. Anthony Fauci to heel by canceling his agency’s taxpayer-funded plan to start new tests of allergy medicine on beagles, some only 6 months old.

Fauci and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, his division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)) have come under fire for reportedly funding tests on drugged beagle puppies.

The experiments were revealed by the nonprofit group White Coat Waste which obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) that appear to show NIAID spent $1.68 million in taxpayer money for experiments on beagle puppies in a lab in Tunisia.

Those experiments reportedly involved testing drugs on the animals and in some cases, they were “de-barked” through a procedure called a cordectomy. ...

“Ernst demanded answers from Dr. Fauci, the head of NIAID, on the unnecessary use of dogs in federally-funded testing by the NIH, specifically in the upcoming NIAID contract, in light of past experiments under Dr. Fauci that included cutting out their vocal cords, infesting the dogs with ticks, and placing dogs in cages with infectious sandflies.

“Ernst demanded answers from Dr. Fauci,

Sadly true.

I hope he gets his own virus a third time and it does him in.

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who has just introduced legislation to blow up the Fauci-EcoHealth funding pipeline, says enough is enough.

“It is absolutely batty that NIH would give another cent of taxpayer money to EcoHealth when the group has failed to respond to repeated NIH requests about violating . . . federal laws and turning over information about the dangerous experiments it was conducting in . . . Wuhan,” says Ernst.

“Giving taxpayer money to EcoHealth to study pandemic prevention is like paying a suspected arsonist to conduct fire safety inspections,” she continued.

Sen. Ernst is being kind. Peter Daszak, the British biologist who runs EcoHealth, virtually has admitted that his organization poured out the accelerant at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then struck a match.

Downsizing the federal bureaucracy is an urgent priority, and an easy first step is in sight thanks to the larcenous behavior of federal bureaucrats who have nominated themselves for swift termination. Jordan Boyd reports at The Federalist:

… thousands of federal employees double-dipped from taxpayer-funded pandemic unemployment funds while mostly working from home.

Despite staying on taxpayers’ payroll during the height of the pandemic panic, greedy bureaucrats in the Internal Revenue Service, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Postal Service, Amtrak, and the Secret Service defrauded taxpayers out of millions more dollars under the guise of Covid unemployment fund and wage assistance programs.

The bureaucrats committed fraud to get the extra money. It was disturbingly easy:

Thanks to rushed and lax standards, whereby “claimants only needed to self-certify they met eligibility requirements when they filed for [pandemic unemployment assistance] benefits,” more than $8.8 million in taxpayer funds were funneled to 638 DHS employees unlawfully. FEMA’s state workforce agencies also paid out $1.2 million in “lost wages assistance” to 935 DHS workers who were “fully employed.” At least 366 of those ineligible DHS officials were actually paid overtime during the period they were approved, receiving up to hundreds of dollars per week on top of normal unemployment benefits.

We must thank Iowa’s Senator Joni Ernst for publicizing this grift. She noted a 2022 report from the DHS’s Inspector General and has urged prosecution, recovery of the stolen money, and firing in a letter to Michael Horowitz, chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst has handed a figurative butcher's
knife to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chairs of the newly
minted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
With a letter outlining over $2 trillion in potential savings, Ernst isn't just
suggesting cuts; she's demanding a fiscal revolution.
Her recommendations, aimed at gutting the excesses of the federal
bureaucracy, signal a clear message to Washington: prepare for an era of
accountability and efficiency, or brace for the shockwaves of change.
This isn't just about trimming the fat; it's about a complete overhaul of
how taxpayer dollars are spent, promising a leaner, more responsible
government.

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