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SCOOP: Hawley Moves to Ban Federal Cash Prizes After Accusing Fauci of Profiting During Pandemic

Virginia Grace McKinnon

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is set to announce legislation to bar all federal employees from soliciting cash prizes while they are in office. The announcement follows the senator grilling Dr. Anthony Fauci about the millions of dollars he pocketed while allegedly contributing to the spread and coverup of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“No federal bureaucrat should accept cash prizes while on the job,” Hawley said in a statement to the Daily Signal. “I am introducing legislation to bar federal employees from accepting cash prizes or soliciting awards. Anthony Fauci got rich while millions of people died. It can never happen again.”

The bill, which Hawley is calling the No Cash Prizes for Bureaucrats Act, would remove existing loopholes for federal employees to receive lucrative financial awards for medicine and research. It would........

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