The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investing half a billion dollars into a project that seeks to develop universal vaccinations for numerous viruses, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The project is called “Generation Gold Standard.” It seeks to use chemically inactivated whole viruses, which is how flu vaccines were created decades ago. Currently, flu vaccines contain synthetic viral proteins or pieces of viruses.

The goal is to create these vaccines with such technology that are “universal,” meaning they will protect against multiple strains of a virus, like the flu, coronavirus, and RSV.

The new project would shift HHS from its current COVID projects and use funding from larger cuts the department has already made.

For example, The Journal noted that under former President Joe Biden, HHS developed a $5 billion project called NextGen, which studied new COVID vaccines. Under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., NextGen has been deemed “wasteful,” and several of the projects within NextGen have been given stop-work orders.

Generation Gold Standard will give the American public “a cost-effective, accountable alternative” to COVID vaccines and therapeutics, an HHS spokesperson told the Journal.

Next year, the project aims to begin trials for a universal flu vaccination, which would protect against numerous strains. Another goal is for trials for a universal coronavirus vaccine to start by 2026, “with FDA approval targeted for 2029.”

Two scientists with senior roles in the project are Dr. Matthew Memoli, the principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, acting director of NIH’s infectious-diseases institute.

“Our commitment is clear: every innovation in vaccine development must be grounded in gold standard science and transparency,” Secretary Kennedy said in a statement.

Under Kennedy, HHS has already made shifts in funding for vaccinations. For example, NIH will stop spending money to determine why Americans hesitate to get vaccines. NIH is terminating or scaling back more than 40 related grants and has said that such spending no longer aligns with NIH priorities.

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President Donald Trump said Friday that Harvard University would lose its tax-exempt status, ramping up his fight with the Ivy League institution to a new level.

Trump’s comments come amid a funding fight with the university as his administration has frozen more than $2 billion in federal funds to Harvard over its pushback on his administration’s efforts to target diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and handling of anti-Israel protests. Last week, Trump called Harvard a “far left institution” and “a threat to Democracy.”

“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump posted on his social media platform Friday morning.

The announcement comes after repeated pressure from Trump for Harvard to comply with his executive orders on education or face the consequences. Last month, the Washington Post reported that the Treasury Department had asked the IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status.

“Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’ Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!” Trump posted on Truth Social on April 15.

At the time, White House spokesman Harrison Fields said that any probes into entities over their tax-exempt status had begun before that social media post.

“Any forthcoming actions by the IRS will be conducted independently of the president, and investigations into any institution’s violations of its tax status were initiated prior to the president’s TRUTH,” he said.

Trump took another shot at Harvard on Thursday night during his commencement speech at the University of Alabama.

“The next chapter of the American story will not be written by the Harvard Crimson. It will be written by you, the Crimson Tide,” Trump said, saying that Harvard’s billions of dollars in federal funding wouldn’t be “so forthcoming” now.

Harvard rebranded its DEI office this week, renaming it the “Community and Campus Life” and changing its focus to “expanding cross-cultural engagement programs, supporting first-generation and low-income students, and creating more opportunities for dialogue across differences,” according to The Harvard Crimson. The university has also changed its chief diversity officer position, which has been renamed and will now be called the Chief Community and Campus Life Officer.

On Monday, the Trump administration announced that it would investigate Harvard and the student-run Harvard Law Journal over its treatment of white contributors.

The Trump administration specifically cited reports that a Harvard Law Review editor said it was “concerning” that four out of five individuals who wanted to reply to an article on police reform were “white men.” The administration provided another example of an editor saying “that a piece should be subject to expedited review because the author was a minority.”