A Modest Proposal

 The FDA was once 100% taxpayer funded but now is mostly funded via "user fees" from the very companies they're supposed to be regulating.

Also Pfizer is the 6th most owned stock by Congress. Reminds me of the quote by the late PJ O'Rourke, "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

Also "In 2020, it [Pharma] spent $309 million on lobbying while the insurance industry spent $154 million, and oil and gas spent $112 million." The real Plague of the Poor.

My modest proposal is simply - if we have money to send to Ukraine we have money to fund the FDA instead of the people they are supposed to regulate.