Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) has called upon the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revoke its approval of the COVID-19 vaccines that he says the agency cut corners to approve.

After earlier deposing two witnesses who were in charge of vaccine approval at the FDA, Massie has maintained that the process for approving the vaccines was corrupted by political pressure to approve them so they could be mandated.

During a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing in June of 2024, Massie shared testimony from Dr. Marion Gruber, the former Director of the FDA’s vaccine office, regarding conversations concerning vaccine efficacy that she had with Dr. Peter Marks, the agency’s top vaccine regulator.

In those emails, Gruber called for more testing among pediatric males ages 12 to 17 over concerns about serious side effects like myocarditis and pericarditis but Marks allegedly pressured her to compress the schedule as much as possible to get the vaccines licensed so they could be mandated.

Massie’s most recent comment calling for the FDA to revoke its approval of the followed an interview between Dr. Drew Pinsky and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong who both expressed concern that much of what is being called Long COVID may actually be side effects related to the COVID vaccines.

In that interview, Pinsky stated, “Most of my friends that work in Long COVID end up seeing more Long Vaccine than Long COVID.”

During the June 2024 hearing, Massie questioned why the Biden administration pushed for approval despite growing reports of vaccine injuries, saying, “The FDA should not have approved a vaccine for children … without proper testing. Injury from COVID vaccination is real.”