On May 9, I wrote about how political string pulling looked like it could succeed in bringing regulatory approval for drug company Moderna’s mRNA flu shot despite testing on the shot indicating that it is especially dangerous. Concluding the article, I commented that approval of the shot by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “would be yet another indication that the Make America Healthy Again movement at the Department of Health and Human Services, where the FDA resides, is being consumed by the swamp that Trump used to be fond of promising to drain.”
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Donald Trump’s presidential administration has been a big disappointment in several major areas, including the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) prospect of reducing government spending and the America First prospect of the United States government pursuing a foreign policy much less interventionist than before. On both counts, the Turmp administration has led the government in the opposite direction than what was promoted in Trump’s presidential campaign. Spending and the national debt have grown. At the same time, the Trump administration has continued the Biden administration’s Ukraine, Israel, and other wars, while stirring up new wars in Venezuela, Iran, and beyond.