A company connected to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump has a new federal business line: disease screening and Ebola response. XpresTest, owned by airport spa operator XWELL, received an $18.8 million CDC contract and a $20 million State Department award for work in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The catch? XpresTest has never handled Ebola or worked on disease outbreaks overseas. Its previous government work involved airport screening for COVID and other pathogens. The company’s own CEO told ProPublica, “This is a risky contract. I’m not sure we can do it.” A fund linked to the Trump brothers invested roughly $30 million in XWELL earlier this year, when the company was struggling financially. Their spokesperson says the brothers are passive minority investors and had no role in securing the contracts. The contracts were awarded through a competitive process, according to the administration. That’s the official explanation. Congress is likely to have questions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-sons-xwell-xprestest-government-contracts
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