Back then, DJT was reflexively reversing anything and everything that Obama had done...including Obama's imposition of a GOF pause in 2014, along with not paying any attention to his "Pandemic Preparedness Plan" that called for filling our PPE equipment National Reserves.
Now, after his botched response to COVID-19 (e.g. knowingly denying the severity of the disease, while simultaneously being unprepared) DJT is trying to re-write history with a campaign against a technology he knows nothing about in an attempt to push the 'Lab Leak' theory.
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-lifts-3-year-ban-funding-risky-virus-studies