Among the glut of pork and woke spending loaded into the lame-duck omnibus spending bill, you’ll find $1.5 billion in taxpayer funding for something called the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Health (ARPA-H).

You’ve probably never heard of ARPA-H because it didn’t exist before March of this year. But this obscure agency cannot be ignored because if it is supercharged with new powers under the omnibus bill, it may have deadly consequences for public health.

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