Trump’s Gain-of-Function Research Pause: Not a Victory Lap, But a Call for Vigilance
Trump’s Executive Order on Gain-of-Function Research Leaves Loopholes Open, Let's Keep our Eyes Wide Open, It's Not a Permanent Fix
The threat of bioweaponized pandemics is not neutralized by an Executive Order. It’s neutralized by public awareness and action.
I played with different possible titles for this article - which is your favorite?
1. “Pause or Propaganda? The Gain-of-Function ‘Ban’ That Isn’t”
2. “Smoke, Mirrors, and Mutant Viruses: What Trump’s EO Really Means for Bioweapon Research”
3. “Not So Fast: The Gain-of-Function Freeze Leaves Loopholes Wide Open”
4. “Temporary Pause, Permanent Danger? Reading Between the Lines on Trump’s GOF Order”
5. “Executive Orders & Engineered Pathogens: Did Trump Just Make Us Safer—or Distracted?”
6. “A False Finish Line? Why the Battle Over Gain-of-Function Is Far From Over”
7. “Executive Pause or Trojan Horse? Decoding the Truth Behind the GOF ‘Ban’”
8. “Gain-of-Function-Research, — a temporary pause is not a permanent solution.”
The headlines are blazing: Trump bans gain-of-function research!
But beneath the surface of celebratory soundbites lies a far more complex reality—one that demands our full attention. Here my intention is to make a call for us to be aware of any temptations towards complacency. This isn’t the time to sigh in relief and move on to other big issues. It’s the moment to read the fine print.
It’s a Pause—Not a Prohibition
A closer look at the executive order reveals that it halts certain federally funded high-risk experiments, yes—but it does not amount to a full ban. Key loopholes remain wide open: private and foreign-funded labs are untouched, “low-risk” pathogen tinkering continues, and the OSTP* waiver clause still allows for exceptions behind closed doors.
*OSTP. See the Jon Fleetwood piece below.
120 Days Pause
The order also temporarily pauses federally funded research using infectious pathogens and toxins in the U.S. for 120 days.
In the next 120 days the administration will work to develop a new policy for that research that is “safer, more enforceable, and transparent.”
Multiple Viewpoints—But One Truth Remains
In this brief but vital roundup, I’m sharing a spectrum of voices—journalists, scientists, and freedom advocates—each offering their view of what this executive order means. Some celebrate it as a courageous first step. Others warn of illusion and distraction.
I am thrilled and totally respect all the reporting. I’m grateful for the light being shown. But as always, discernment is our task.
I hope you will see me as a voice in the wilderness reminding us not to base our lives on headline news.
The threat of engineered pandemics won’t be neutralized by press releases.
It will be dismantled by:
Public awakening,
Persistent inquiry, and
Courageous, informed action.
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🌟 Gov't Can Now Engineer Pathogens to Be More Deadly, Resurrect Extinct Viruses in Secret Without Any Oversight or Independent Review: OSTP Waiver
Jon Fleetwood
Trump's new executive order does not outright ban gain-of-function or suspend the OSTP waiver clause, as his admin ramps up bird flu pandemic efforts.
On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that many are incorrectly claiming bans all gain-of-function in the U.S.
The EO does not ban all GOF research in the U.S.; it only suspends federal funding for some GOF research—and even then, it explicitly allows for exceptions if approved by the OSTP Director, Michael Kratsios.
“Heads of agencies shall report any exception to a suspension to the Director of OSTP for review in consultation with the APNSA and the heads of relevant agencies,” the EO reads.
Routine or so-called lower-risk GOF studies are also unaffected, and non-federally funded dangerous research is not banned, meaning bird flu experiments that are currently being funded by Bill Gates can continue.
The order also does not end all foreign collaborations, only those involving research in certain high-risk countries.
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🌟 Trump Pauses Federally Funded Gain-of-Function Research in U.S., But for Only 120 Days
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order ending U.S. federal funding of “dangerous gain-of-function research” in China, Iran and other nations.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order ending U.S. federal funding of “dangerous gain-of-function research” in China, Iran and other nations, which he said lack sufficient oversight.
The order ends “any present and all future,” federal funding for such research in those countries.
The order also temporarily pauses federally funded research using infectious pathogens and toxins in the U.S. for 120 days.
“These measures will drastically reduce the potential for lab-related incidents involving gain-of-function research, like that conducted on bat coronaviruses in China by the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology,” according to a White House fact sheet released the same day.
During the 120-day pause in the U.S.,
the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the national security adviser will work with funding agencies — namely the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — to develop a new policy for that research that is “safer, more enforceable, and transparent.”
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🌟 BOMBSHELL: Trump Executive Order Bans "Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research"
Karen Kingston
In this Substack article: What is “Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research?”
Section 8 of the Executive Order defines “dangerous gain-of-function research”
Hopefully Trump’s Executive Order opens the door for HHS Secretary Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Makary to immediately issue a Class 1 recall of all authorized and FDA-approved COVID-19 mRNA injections
May 5, 2025: President Trump signed an executive order banning ‘dangerous gain-of-function’ research, citing the Biden administration’s lack of oversite of this dangerous research, and “actively approving, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH)… funding in China and other countries where there is limited United States oversight or reasonable expectation of biosafety enforcement. This recklessness, if unaddressed, may lead to the proliferation of research on pathogens (and potential pathogens) in settings without adequate safeguards, even after COVID-19 revealed the risk of such practices.”
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🌟 Trump signs executive order BANNING Frankenstein-style virus research feared to spawned Covid pandemic in Wuhan lab leak
The Sun
DONALD Trump has banned all US funding for risky virus research in China and beyond, five years after Covid-19 upended the planet.
In a blistering executive order signed Monday, Trump outlawed federal support for gain-of-function experiments in countries like China and Iran — blaming the controversial research for unleashing the global health catastrophe.
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🌟 HISTORIC: Trump and RFK Jr. Just Shut Down Federal Support for Gain-of-Function Experiments
Before he ever stepped into office, RFK Jr. was warning the public about something few dared to touch—gain-of-function research.
Long before most people had even heard the term, Kennedy was calling out Dr. Anthony Fauci for experimenting on viruses, making them more deadly under the guise of science.
He explained it plainly: scientists were taking wild viruses and making them more contagious, more lethal, then building vaccines to counter the threats they’d just created. And for what purpose?
“The only real rationale,” Kennedy said, “is to develop bioweapons, and then develop a defense to those bioweapons.”
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🌟 MAHA BOMBSHELL: Trump Pauses Deadly Gain-Of-Function Research
2nd Smartest Guy in the World Substack
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday that freezes Federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function (GOF) virus “research” overseas in countries like China and Iran, while placing a moratorium on these kinds of bioweapon projects here in the United States.
It is critical to appreciate that President Obama exported this deadly GOF “research” to China, and Fauci along with his Intelligence-Industrial Complex handlers (who owned many of the “vaccine” patents years before their scamdemic) leveraged this illicit CCP partnership in order to deliberately release the COVID-19 virus along with the very same GOF technology contained in the associated and far deadlier slow kill bioweapon “vaccines.”
By calling for an end to all bioweapons research, the Trump administration is setting the stage to eventually ban all vaccines, which are ultimately depopulation injections that are derived from the very same eugenics research that informs the entire bioweapons program; in other words, the lack of any legitimate safety and efficacy data — remember, not a single vaccine currently has any high quality RCT with placebo control — is due to the fact that vaccines themselves are a kind of stealth bioweapons research subset sold to the populace as some kind of “Safe and Effective” panacea for the various diseases, except that…
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A Review of Specific Parts of the Executive Order
🌟 President Trump issues Executive Order on Gain of Function studies
Meryl Nass
I believe this is an excellent start to taking the threat of lab-derived pandemics seriously. Obviously we need a global ban and global enforcement. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) could be strengthened to meet this need. 183 nations are parties to the BWC. 193 nations are parties to the UN.
Israel is NOT a party, but must become one and must agree to comply with the measurements required to make the treaty effective, such as challenge inspections, if this plan is to work. Trump’s EO could be the basis for a real Pandemic Treaty, not the fake pandemic treaty that was billed to prevent pandemics but written to encourage them; to get untested, liability-free vaccines out in no time; and give extraordinary powers to manage global public health to the WHO.
Disclosure: I worked with others to make suggestions for an EO banning GOF. This looks very different than my suggestions, which were not written in legalese, but this really does the job. I am thrilled with the result!
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🌟 BREAKING: Trump Bans Foreign Gain-of-Function Research — U.S. Experiments Paused
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
The executive order halts federal funding for dangerous virus experiments overseas and temporarily suspends high-risk U.S. research involving infectious pathogens and toxins.
This executive order marks a critical first step toward ending dangerous gain-of-function research once and for all. It appears to pause ongoing experiments in the U.S. involving infectious pathogens and toxins — a welcome and long-overdue action to protect the American people.
Notably, the order also acknowledges a long-ignored danger: non-federally funded GOF research in private labs and universities. For the first time, the U.S. government is directing agencies to track and regulate high-risk bioengineering activities outside federal funding channels — a move that could close major loopholes exploited in past pandemic-related experiments.
However, we must remain clear-eyed — a temporary pause is not a permanent solution. Some of the most reckless and high-risk gain-of-function experiments have taken place right here on U.S. soil:
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