Posted on 12/15/2025 2:33:28 PM PST by Twotone
SINGAPORE — Sentosa Island boasts the luxury, five-star Ora and Michael hotels, with palm-tree-lined pools, lobbies flanked with luxury stores, and a casino that adjoins both hotels and buzzes with gamblers. The Singapore resort is also where a group of federal employees from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were sent for a work trip in the final hours of the government shutdown.
Internal FDA records obtained by CNBC show 31 agency staffers traveled to Singapore in mid-November for a conference of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use, or ICH — a trip that cost more than a quarter of a million dollars, or upward of $8,000 per person, according to the documents. The travel was approved when the agency was operating with reduced staffing and limited resources in part due to the shutdown.
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The FDA told CNBC the trip did not rely on taxpayer dollars, saying it was funded through the agency’s carryover user fees — money collected from companies that make drugs, devices and other medical products to pay for regulatory work such as product reviews and inspections.
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Power corrupts
Absolute power absolutely corrupts
need to be fired.
It does seem that absolutely no one in government today - at any level - understands the problem our our debt. They really seem to want us to be Zimbabwe one day.
So they think that makes it their personal money to do wuth as they please???
Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette is the Director of Government Affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, wears dark glasses, and uses a white cane.
There is a message there somewhere...
AS a LIFE LONG ACCOUNTING PERSON-—I WANT TO SEE ACTUAL DETAILS.
I SMELL A RAT.
The 31 staffers and also the chain of command at least 2 levels above should all be fired. People need to be made into an example.
” taxpayer dollars, saying it was funded through the agency’s carryover user fees — money collected from companies that make drugs, devices and other medical products”
which are in turn passed on to the consumer in the form of higher drug prices.
Money for nothing and vacations for free ?
I’m all for our people being in a harmonious relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.
Sounds like a bribe to me.
Typical government employees...arrogant, insensitive, integrity-free losers grifting at every opportunity.
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