Follow the Money, Part 1: the CDC Foundation

And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. (Exodus 23:8, ESV)

The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice. (Proverbs 17:23, ESV)

By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down. (Proverbs 29:4, ESV)

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts.
They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them. (Isaiah 1:23, ESV)

by Steve Halbrook

Whenever you try to follow the vaccine “science,” you end up following the money. In this new series we plan to give several examples. It will make clear that the vaccine narrative is not framed by truth for our best interests, but by greed for financial interests.

Let’s start with the corruption in the CDC — “the nation’s leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public’s health” — via the CDC Foundation. The CDC Foundation is an “independent public charity” that “helps save and improve lives” via donations from people and organizations.

As the CDC Foundation website states:

Established by Congress, the CDC Foundation is an independent, 501(c)(3) public charity. The CDC Foundation helps save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between national health agencies like the CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations, individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. …

The main source of CDC discretionary funds is budget authority, which are annual appropriations determined by Congress. CDC has delegated authority from the Assistant Secretary of Health, HHS, to accept outside gifts. The statutory authority which created the CDC Foundation included authority for CDC to accept gifts from the CDC Foundation.

CDC Foundation, Supporting CDC and Public Health. Retrieved October 5, 2025, from https://www.cdcfoundation.org/supporting-cdc

While not every “gift” may have bribery as an intention, reading between the lines, the CDC Foundation is a legal means for corporations and such to bribe the CDC.

Check out their list of 2024 donors here. Includes such notorious vaccine companies as Pfizer, Moderna, and Merck. While the dreaded Johnson and Johnson COVID shot is no longer on the market, Johnson and Johnson is here too. There is also Hillevax, developer of “novel vaccines.”

(Note that this list just captures donations from 2024 — not all of the years prior.)

Of course, we all know that such companies (as corrupt and murderous as they are) simply give to the CDC out of the goodness of their hearts; and there is just no way that the donations influence the CDC’s scientific conclusions on vaccines.

The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics says this in 2023 of the Foundation:

Congress authorized the creation of the entity in 1992 with the goal of supporting the CDC by creating partnerships with corporations, foundations, organizations, and individuals. The independent status of the CDC Foundation, however, places it in a different legal category from the CDC. This status, in turn, opens up the possibility for the CDC to encounter conflict of interest questions that would not have arisen in the absence of private funding. The CDC director has the authority to accept any gifts for anything related to the CDC’s purpose, whether that gift is to be used for general or special-purpose funds.

Conor Bigley, Remedying Conflict of Interest Issues in Public Health Bodies, The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 36:575 (2023), 577.

As Scripture says,