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Brother of Biden’s Top Advisor Lobbied for Biotech Firm Awarded COVID Vax Deal Halted by Kennedy - Judicial Watch

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Brother of Joe Biden’s White House Counselor was paid handsomely to lobby on behalf of a San Francisco -based biotechnology company that was awarded $453 million by the administration to develop an oral COVID vaccine.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has temporarily halted the deal, issuing a 90-day stop-work order a few days ago .
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https://medicalcountermeasures.gov/nextgenhttps://tinyurl.com/fs8e42xzhttps://investors.vaxart.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vaxart-receives-barda-funded-project-nextgen-award-valued-453#:~:text=Overview-,Vaxart%20Receives%20BARDA%2DFunded%20Project%20NextGen%20Award%20Valued%20Up%20to,19%20Oral%20Pill%20Vaccine%20Candidate&text=SOUTH%20SAN%20FRANCISCO%2C%20Calif.%20%2C,NEWSWIRE)%20%2D%2D%20Vaxart%2C%20Inchttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/multimillion-dollar-biden-era-covid-vax-project-halted-trumps-hhs?intcmp=fb_fnchttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/
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