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To: The President of the United States, The Senate, The House of Representatives
Drain the swamp and get Robert Kadlec to resign as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services
Pressure Robert Kadlec to resign or fire him.
He did not disclose his connections to Emergent BioSolutions nor with Fuad El-Hibri.
He did not disclose his connections to Emergent BioSolutions nor with Fuad El-Hibri.
Why is this important?
1. Robert Kadlec did not disclose he was a consultant with Emergent BioSolutions and he did not bid out the purchase but made private negotiations with the company to pay $2.8 billions of a vaccine. That was a conflict of interest. Emergent BioSolutions got a ten year contract with the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
He also did not note in his Senate filings that he had been a part owner of a company with Fuad El-Hibri, Emergent's founder and chairman.
2. He diminished the role of government experts and reduced the decision making to himself and a few advisers.
3. In 2018, he halted an Obama-era initiative to spend $35 million on a machine that would have made 1.5 million N95 masks per day. These masks would have been very helpful for our healthcare professionals in the frontlines. A recently made contract for $62.3 million went to the company which designed the rapid mask machine that was not purchased as planned.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-pandemic-trumps-stockpile-chief-put-focus-on-biodefense-an-old-client-benefited/2020/05/04/d3c2b010-84dd-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html
He also did not note in his Senate filings that he had been a part owner of a company with Fuad El-Hibri, Emergent's founder and chairman.
2. He diminished the role of government experts and reduced the decision making to himself and a few advisers.
3. In 2018, he halted an Obama-era initiative to spend $35 million on a machine that would have made 1.5 million N95 masks per day. These masks would have been very helpful for our healthcare professionals in the frontlines. A recently made contract for $62.3 million went to the company which designed the rapid mask machine that was not purchased as planned.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-pandemic-trumps-stockpile-chief-put-focus-on-biodefense-an-old-client-benefited/2020/05/04/d3c2b010-84dd-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html
How it will be delivered
I will email the results to the White House, Mitch McConnell, and Nancy Pelosi.