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Do you know anything about the delegation of power in Government. No President can micro-manage the budget of Departments of State once the Parliament - or in the case of the US - the Congress - have passed budgets it becomes the function of the Heads of Department to manage the funding allocation - normally by the HOD's and various departmental committees, In the case of Faucci he was the one to be held accountable what happened to medical research funding.
Why did Obama signed that empowerment of gain of function research 8 days before he was replaced by Trump? No one knows - the only one that would really know is Faucci,