{"id":1500612,"date":"2022-06-02T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T11:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500612"},"modified":"2022-06-02T07:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T11:32:04","slug":"rand-paul-demands-answers-on-federal-employees-getting-payments-from-drug-companies-theyre-supposed-to-oversee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-demands-answers-on-federal-employees-getting-payments-from-drug-companies-theyre-supposed-to-oversee\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Demands Answers on Federal Employees Getting Payments From Drug Companies They\u2019re Supposed to Oversee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frand-paul-demands-answers-on-federal-employees-getting-payments-from-drug-companies-theyre-supposed-to-oversee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500612&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>    Exclusive: Rand Paul Demands Answers About Federal Employees Getting Payments From Drug Companies They\u2019re Supposed to Oversee &#8211; Based Politics<br \/>\n    <meta \/><br \/>\n    <meta content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\" \/>\n    <link rel=\"pingback\" href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/xmlrpc.php\" \/>\n    <meta content=\"index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\t<meta content=\"How many government employees tasked with overseeing drug companies are also receiving money from them? 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class=\"tdb-author-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/author\/brad-polumbo\/\" title=\"Brad Polumbo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/brad-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Brad Polumbo\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-96 alignnone photo\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_89 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_89\">\n<p><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2022-06-01T13:38:08-04:00\">June 1, 2022<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_92 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_92\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span>How many government employees tasked with overseeing drug companies are also receiving money from them? And are federal agencies properly disclosing these payments when they do occur?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senator Rand Paul is demanding answers to these very fair questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What\u2019s This All About?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>At issue here is the flow of money between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the companies and groups it works with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLast year, the National Institutes of Health\u2013Anthony Fauci\u2019s employer\u2013doled out $30 billion in government grants to roughly 56,000 recipients,\u201d Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openthebooks.substack.com\/p\/faucis-royalties-and-the-350-million?s=w\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>explains<\/span><\/a><span>. <\/span><span>\u201cThat largess of taxpayer money buys a lot of favor and clout within the scientific, research, and healthcare industries. However\u2026 <\/span><b>hundreds of millions of dollars in payments also flow the other way.<\/b><span> These are royalty payments from third-party payers (think pharmaceutical companies) back to the NIH and individual NIH scientists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to OpenTheBooks, at least $350 million in royalties flowed back to the NIH and specific NIH scientists from 2010 to 2020. For example, Andrzejewski\u2019s investigation revealed that Dr. Fauci has received at least 23 royalty payments, while former NIH Director Francis Collins received at least 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But there\u2019s still a lot we don\u2019t know, like how much these payments were for and what companies or organizations paid them out. The NIH has fought like hell to resist fully disclosing most of this information, Andrzejewski says, and much of what they have released is heavily redacted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s where Senator Paul and his Republican colleagues come in.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Demanding Full Transparency<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>Senator Paul, Senator Rick Scott of Florida, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, and Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma all serve on the <\/span><span>Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. They just sent a letter to Acting NIH Director Lawrence Tabak demanding more transparency and information on these royalty payments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The letter was exclusively provided to <\/span><b>BASEDPolitics<\/b><span> ahead of its public release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn 2005, the NIH implemented a policy requiring its employees to disclose royalty payments on the consent forms for clinical trial participants; however, <\/span><b>the agency has taken no action to disclose such payments to the public at large<\/b><span>,\u201d the senators wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNevertheless, <\/span><b>we believe that the American taxpayer deserves to know the degree to which government doctors and researchers have a financial interest in drugs and products they support<\/b><span>, and whether any relationship exists between federal grants awarded by NIH and royalty payments received by NIH personnel,\u201d they continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAdditionally, <\/span><b>Americans deserve greater transparency in how the hundreds of millions in royalty payments NIH receives are distributed<\/b><span>, and the degree to which NIH\u2019s leadership\u2014already among the highest-paid individuals in the federal bureaucracy\u2014has benefited from this \u201chidden\u201d revenue stream,\u201d the letter concludes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The senators requested detailed information from NIH regarding royalty payments received by federal employees and departments from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They also asked NIH to transparently explain whether its employees have followed federal laws that prohibit federal employees from participating in activities where they have a financial interest unless they received a written waiver or qualify for a regulatory exemption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The GOP lawmakers have given NIH a deadline of June 17 to comply with their request, as the agency is bound under federal law to do, and provide the requested information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why Does This Matter?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>At first glance, this issue might seem niche and bureaucratic. But it actually gets to the heart of why Washington, DC is such a swamp, and why big government so often fails to serve the interests of the American people: financial entanglement between government actors and special interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Like many federal agencies, Andrzejewski <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openthebooks.substack.com\/p\/faucis-royalties-and-the-350-million?s=w\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>explains<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201c<\/span><b>NIH is a revolving door of tens of billions of dollars in government grant-making coupled with hundreds of millions of dollars in private\u2014non-transparent\u2014royalty payments<\/b><span>. There needs to be a lot more sunshine on this potentially unholy alliance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><b>When a federal bureaucrat pops up on television giving us health instructions, who has paid them and for what research and technology?<\/b><span>\u201d he asks. \u201cWhen a patient agrees to a clinical trial or experimental treatment, what financial interests are involved?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>American taxpayers deserve answers to all of these questions. 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His work has been cited by top lawmakers such as Senator Rand Paul, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Pat Toomey, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, Congressman Thomas Massie, and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, as well as by prominent media personalities such as Jordan Peterson, Sean Hannity, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, and Mark Levin. Brad has also testified before the US Senate, appeared on Fox News and Fox Business, and written for publications such as USA Today, National Review, Newsweek, and the Daily Beast. 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