Ronald Alan Klain (born August 8, 1961)
Tue, 8 August 1961 = 26th of Av, 5721
כ״ו בְּאָב תשכ״א
Parashat Re’eh
Mon, 29 August 2005 after sunset = 25th of Av, 5765
כ״ה בְּאָב תשס״ה
Parashat Re’eh
Parashat Re’eh 5765 / פָּרָשַׁת רְאֵה
3 September 2005 / 29 Av 5765
Parashat Re’eh is the 47th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17
Re’eh (“See”) details a series of laws in advance of the Israelites’ entrance into the Land of Israel. These include the obligation to destroy idolatry, laws of tithing and charity, dietary laws, holiday laws, and the prohibition of offering sacrifices outside of the place designated by God.
"Re eh See" = 65 (Ordinal)
"Pandemic" = 65 (Ordinal)
"Ronald Klain" = 666 (Sumerian)
"Vaccination" = 666 (Sumerian)
Obama visited Ukraine on 8/29/2005
From Tue Aug 08 1961 to Mon Aug 29 2005 is:
2299 Weeks, 0 Days
From Tue Aug 08 1961 to Wed Mar 11 2020 is:
21400 Days
From Mon Aug 29 2005 to Wed Mar 11 2020 is:
5308 Days
From Mon Aug 29 2005 to Fri Oct 18 2019 is:
5163 Days
From Mon Aug 29 2005 to Sat Aug 10 2019 is:
5094 Days
From Mon Aug 29 2005 to Tue May 15 2018 is:
4642 Days
From Mon Aug 29 2005 to Mon Jun 04 2018 is:
666 Weeks
Ron Klain managed the federal COVID-19 response as White House Chief of Staff for President Joe Biden, drawing on past experience as the coordinator for the Obama administration's 2014 Ebola response. He pushed for aggressive national vaccination campaigns, testing distribution, and science-based mitigation strategies.
Background and Early Involvement Served as a central public health and political adviser to Joe Biden during the 2020 campaign.Relied on his prior crisis-management experience as the White House Ebola Response Coordinator from 2014 to 2015.Critiqued the initial federal handling of the outbreak in early 2020 and advocated for structured, centralized coordination. White House Chief of Staff Actions Oversaw the implementation of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which funded nationwide vaccine distribution and economic relief. Frequently communicated administration health metrics, testing protocols, and safety guidelines to the public and media. Steered operational strategy during shifting virus variants and evolving federal mandates through early 2023.
A news segment covering Ron Klain's background and deployment to tackle the coronavirus pandemic:
What did he set up in the Obama administration
During the Obama administration, Ron Klain was primarily responsible for setting up and managing the federal government's comprehensive, "whole-of-government" response to the 2014–2015 West African Ebola epidemic. Appointed by President Barack Obama in October 2014, Klain served as the White House Ebola Response Coordinator (frequently referred to in the media as the "Ebola Czar").In this role and his other positions during the Obama presidency, Klain established and oversaw several critical operations:
The Comprehensive Ebola Response Framework Interagency Coordination Network: Klain established a unified command structure that integrated domestic public health agencies (like the CDC and NIH) with international humanitarian, diplomatic, and military operations (such as USAID and the Department of Defense).Domestic Readiness Programs: He coordinated tracking, isolation, and treatment protocols within the United States after Ebola cases appeared domestically, ensuring hospitals were properly resourced and trained. International Containment Infrastructure: He managed the deployment of U.S. resources to West Africa to confront and suppress the epidemic at its source.
Implementation of the 2009 Stimulus Package
Before tackling the Ebola crisis, Klain served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011. In this position, he was a senior aide tasked with helping to set up, manage, and implement the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This was the largest domestic economic stimulus package in American history at the time, and Klain oversaw the complex regulatory and distribution architecture required to deploy those funds.
Did the NIH get anymore from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. No, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) did not receive any additional funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) beyond its original allocation. Total ARRA Funding The ARRA was passed as a one-time economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama. The financial specifics regarding the NIH's portion include: The Final Allocation: The NIH was authorized a strict total of $10.4 billion from the stimulus package.
The Spending Timeline: These emergency supplemental funds were structured strictly as a two-year windfall meant to be quickly distributed and obligated across Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010.Distribution: The money was heavily focused on extramural research, successfully funding more than 12,000 rapid-turnaround scientific grants to stimulate the biomedical workforce during the recession.
Because ARRA was designed exclusively as a temporary, short-term economic jumpstart, it completely ceased injecting money into the agency after its initial funds were exhausted. Today, the agency relies entirely on its standard annual federal budget cycles. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the total regular program funding level enacted for the NIH reached $47.493 billion, operating independently of any past ARRA legislation. If you want to look closer at federal science budgets, let me know if you would like to explore how the NIH's current annual appropriations compare to the historical stimulus spike, or look into modern emergency supplements like those passed during public health crises.
The Pentagon has invested approximately $200 million in Ukraine since 2005 through its Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP), but this funding was for general diagnostic laboratory safety, disease surveillance, and public health security rather than specific "animal research" or animal testing. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has no record of funding animal research in Ukraine.
The facts regarding these funds include: The Pentagon Funding ($200 Million)The Purpose: Administered by the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), this initiative was established to safely secure and eliminate remnants of the Soviet Union’s biological weapons programs. Scope of Animal Health: Part of the $200 million went toward building and upgrading 46 Ukrainian laboratories and diagnostic sites to improve safety and early disease detection for both human and animal health (such as tracking African Swine Fever).Operational Control: These facilities are entirely owned and operated by the Ukrainian government, not the United States.
The NIH Funding (No Record for Ukraine)The Distinction: The NIH does not have a track record of funding animal research in Ukraine. Source of Confusion: Public scrutiny regarding federal money and foreign animal research often stems from a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report and watchdog groups highlighting that the NIH granted roughly $549,000 to the Pavlov Institute of Physiology—which is located in Russia, not Ukraine—for experiments on cats prior to 2022.
The facts regarding these funds include: The Pentagon Funding ($200 Million)The Purpose: Administered by the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), this initiative was established to safely secure and eliminate remnants of the Soviet Union’s biological weapons programs. Scope of Animal Health: Part of the $200 million went toward building and upgrading 46 Ukrainian laboratories and diagnostic sites to improve safety and early disease detection for both human and animal health (such as tracking African Swine Fever).Operational Control: These facilities are entirely owned and operated by the Ukrainian government, not the United States.
The NIH Funding (No Record for Ukraine)The Distinction: The NIH does not have a track record of funding animal research in Ukraine. Source of Confusion: Public scrutiny regarding federal money and foreign animal research often stems from a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report and watchdog groups highlighting that the NIH granted roughly $549,000 to the Pavlov Institute of Physiology—which is located in Russia, not Ukraine—for experiments on cats prior to 2022.
Recent Document Disclosures Declassified documents released by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence confirm that American funding distributed to agricultural and veterinary institutes in Ukraine (such as the Institute of Veterinary Medicine) was strictly earmarked for upgrading equipment, biosafety infrastructure, and epidemiologic monitoring to prevent dangerous outbreaks.
Did Ron Klain or Obama ever direct any money to Metabiota or Dr. Nathan WolfeNo public records show that either Barack Obama or Ron Klain ever personally directed government or private money to Metabiota or Dr. Nathan Wolfe.While both men occupied senior federal positions when Metabiota (founded by Dr. Nathan Wolfe) received millions in federal grants and contracts, the funding flowed through standardized institutional agency channels rather than personal or executive directives.
Institutional Federal Funding to MetabiotaDuring the Obama administration, federal entities awarded contracts and grants to Metabiota for pandemic prediction and biosecurity tracking:The Department of Defense: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded Metabiota subcontracts to assist and train scientists at biological research facilities, primarily in Ukraine.USAID: Under the PREDICT project initiated in 2009, USAID provided grants to a coalition of global health organizations—including Metabiota—to monitor and detect novel zoonotic viruses.
The Nature of Obama and Klain's Involvement Barack Obama: While federal funding occurred during his presidency, research grants and defense subcontracts are administered independently by career procurement officers within agencies like the DoD and Sadiron Klain: As Obama's White House Ebola Response Coordinator ("Ebola czar") in 2014, Klain managed high-level interagency strategy and domestic hospital preparedness. Though Meta biota was independently operating on the ground during the West African Ebola outbreak, Klain's role involved managing emergency funding buckets rather than assigning contracts to specific private startups. Source of Overlapping Controversies
The connection frequently raised in political discourse stems from Hunter Biden's investment firm, Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP), which led a $30 million Series A investment round into Metabiotic in 2015. Because Ron Klain and Barack Obama are prominent figures tied to the broader political network of the Biden administration, their names are often grouped together in discussions regarding Metabola's financing, but no evidence connects either man to RSTP's private investment decisions.
While he never went to the country as commander-in-chief, he did visit Ukraine once prior to his presidency. In August 2005, he traveled to Kyiv and Donetsk as a U.S. Senator alongside Republican Senator Richard Lugar to tour conventional weapons destruction sites. During his presidency, Obama addressed the Russo-Ukrainian War and the 2014 annexation of Crimea entirely from a distance, coordinating sanctions and meeting with European allies during broader diplomatic tours to nearby countries like Poland, Belgium, and Germany.
Then-Senator Barack Obama arrived in Ukraine on Sunday, August 28, 2005, as part of a congressional delegation trip with Senator Richard Lugar. They began their official meetings and joint press conferences in Kyiv the following day, on Monday, August 29, 2005.
