Biden’s $900 million COVID PR blitz misled Americans, enriched Big Pharma
By isabelle // 2025-09-22
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  • The Biden administration spent $900 million in taxpayer funds on a manipulative PR campaign to push COVID-19 vaccines while silencing dissenting medical voices.
  • Government ads falsely claimed vaccines would stop transmission and used emotional blackmail to coerce compliance, despite the FDA never authorizing such claims.
  • Big Pharma raked in billions of dollars in profits from taxpayer-funded vaccine purchases, with Pfizer alone making $100 billion in 2022, while censorship of doctors and scientists ran rampant.
  • The campaign’s legacy includes eroded public trust, divided families, and crushed small businesses, with vaccine confidence plummeting due to broken government promises.
  • Lawmakers demand transparency and protections for scientific dissent, but the damage to public health institutions may be irreversible.
During the pandemic, Americans were told the only way to hug their grandkids or attend weddings was to get an experimental COVID-19 shot, and now, a House Republican report shows that the government spent nearly a billion tax dollars promoting this message while silencing doctors who questioned it. The scathing report exposes how the Biden administration allegedly weaponized fear, deception, and corporate collusion to push its COVID-19 agenda through emotionally manipulative advertising campaigns and systematic suppression of dissenting medical voices. The 113-page investigation, led by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, reveals that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) funneled $900 million into the “We Can Do This” public relations campaign—a psychological operation designed to exaggerate vaccine effectiveness, overstate risks to children, and shame Americans into compliance. Ads flooded airwaves and social media, insisting vaccination was the only path back to normalcy. Yet by summer 2024, the campaign’s YouTube videos vanished, scrubbed from public view as questions mounted over their accuracy.

Manipulation by design: Fear, false promises, and financial windfalls

The report clearly states that the Biden-Harris administration misled the public by claiming vaccines would stop transmission—a claim the FDA never authorized. Worse, the campaign leaned on emotionally manipulative messaging, framing vaccination as a moral duty to resume life’s simplest joys. “Getting vaccinated was the only way to see friends, hang out, go on dates, have parties, vacation, and have sleepovers,” the report states, citing ad scripts. Meanwhile, dissenting scientists and doctors—including those raising concerns about vaccine injuries or natural immunity—were censored on social media, their voices drowned out by a taxpayer-funded echo chamber. The financial stakes were staggering. While Americans were told vaccines were “free,” taxpayers footed the bill—$31.9 billion in mRNA research and procurement since 1985, plus $29.2 billion in advance purchases for 2 billion doses. Pfizer alone raked in $100 billion in 2022, while Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, and Sinovac collectively pocketed $90 billion in profits over 2021–2022. “The fraud must be stopped,” one committee member declared, calling the scheme a “misuse of taxpayer funds for political messaging.”

Censorship, cronyism, and the erosion of trust

The report doesn’t stop at financial waste. It accuses the administration of colluding with Big Tech to track Americans’ compliance, raising serious privacy concerns. Social media platforms, meanwhile, silenced medical professionals who questioned lockdowns, mask mandates, or vaccine safety, even as the CDC’s own guidance proved “deeply flawed.” The agency overstated risks to children, pushed inconsistent mask policies, and continues to recommend COVID shots for infants, making the U.S. a global outlier in pandemic policy. “Americans cannot afford another botched government response,” warned Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), who blamed the campaign for sowing distrust in public health institutions. Her colleague, Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), echoed the sentiment, noting that “American trust in the CDC is at an all-time low”—a direct result of the administration’s “flawed pandemic messaging.” Beyond the financial waste, the campaign’s legacy is one of divided families, crushed small businesses, and a public health system in tatters. Schools remained closed, livelihoods were destroyed, and vaccine confidence plummeted—not because of misinformation, but because the government’s own claims collapsed under scrutiny. When officials promised vaccines would stop transmission, then walked back the statement, they didn’t just lose credibility; they betrayed the public’s trust. The report’s recommendations are a start: transparency mandates, stricter FDA labeling compliance, and protections for scientific dissent. But the damage is done.

A cautionary tale for the next “pandemic”

This isn’t just about COVID. It’s about a pattern of deception in which government agencies, pharmaceutical giants, and tech oligarchs collude to control the narrative, enrich themselves, and silence opposition. The next time a crisis emerges, will Americans remember this betrayal? Or will the same playbook of fear, censorship, and corporate welfare be trotted out again? One thing is clear: $900 million buys a lot of propaganda. But it can’t buy back the trust the Biden administration squandered. Sources for this article include: YourNews.com EnergyCommerce.House.gov TheGatewayPundit.com
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