First on Fox: Former President Joe Biden’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spent tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds to send senior officials to a meeting in Scotland that included diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) workshops, a government regulator found.
Through the FOIA request, the Functional Government Initiative (FGI) found that Biden FDA estimated to spend $60,000, including more than a dozen employees, including Dr. Charlene Le Fauve, senior consultant for health rights, attended the Scottish (Srnt) meeting in Edinburgh, Edinburgh.
During the meeting, team members attended a workshop focusing on the “stigma” faced by LGBTQ+ people in the field of tobacco research.
According to the FDA’s own report on the trip, topics included in the workshop include “Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, how the discriminatory and stigmatized environment affects the population of LGBTQ+ people affects tobacco use and tobacco control” and “Tobacco Control Research” and “Community-based Participatory Projects as community-based participatory research projects to address the tobacco protein population in Argentine in Argentine.”
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Government regulators found that former President Joe Biden's Food and Drug Administration spent tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer dollars at an overseas meeting. (Reuters/Joshua Roberts|Eastoke)
Another topic of discussion is “The challenge of conducting research on tobacco use in post-age pregnancy high-stigmatism environments.”
Le Fauve claimed that “the knowledge gained at the meeting is crucial to the attendees’ ability to understand emerging scientific issues that may affect their work and to effectively advance forward agency programs.”
"The formal SRNT conference included many sessions where health equity was an identified focus and I attended several which were highly relevant, well done, and informative including the Presidential Symposium that included three presents supporting the premise that in order to have a global impact on the tobacco smoking pandemic, nicotine and tobacco research must broaden its vision beyond wealthy countries to include research and researchers in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the vast majority of smokers in the world live,” added Le Fauve.
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Travel is also the center of Brian King, director of tobacco products, who recently Relieve him from his duties The Trump administration's move was when a former agency official told Fox News Digital was the result of the FDA's loss in its core mission under Biden Administration and focused on issues like Dei.
David Oliveira told FOX News Digital last month that he told Fox News Digital last month that he explained that the FDA said his responsibility to other departments has not flooded the market for China's responsibility, and he expressed a huge core of China's responsibility and has not flooded China with China.
FGI Communications Director Roderick Law told Fox News Digital in a statement that spending tens of thousands of dollars to send more than a dozen employees to the Scottish conference is another example of the agency losing its mission.
"I, like anyone else in the world, would love to pay my employer $60,000 on vacation," the law said.
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President Joe Biden speaks at a press conference on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington on July 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
"Sadly, this dream has become a reality for taxpayers to bear 12 people. How can a group of government officials spend $60,000 on LGBTQ+ workshops? How does this trip help the agency block illegal Chinese-made products or applications that can handle applications that can provide new products for reducing harm? This waste will never happen again."
Fox News Digital and the FDA reached out to comment.