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On December 29, 2022 President Biden signed the $1.7 Trillion “omnibus” government appropriations bill for fiscal year 2023, which funds the government through September 2023. It had been released to Congress on December 20. It was passed by Congress on December 22, 2022—a mere 2 days after being released.

It had 1,653 pages that almost no one read in the 2 days they had to consider the bill before voting.

Now, facts about what was in this bill are dribbling out and they are disconcerting, to say the least. Let me say clearly that I have not reviewed this bill (and can’t possibly do so) and am relying on what others have written. I believe these provisions are put in huge bills for multiple reasons, one being that ordinary humans cannot pick through them.

The law that allowed for the use of off-label licensed drugs like HCQ and IVM appears to have been neutered. Also gone is the prohibition for using EUA products outside an emergency, discussed in a previous substack and confirmed by Sanjoy Mahajan’s identifying the FDA notice dated Jan. 31 that confirms it.

It seems that the government’s stamping out the independent practice of medicine is marching forward in the dark, avoiding any public opposition.