I think there's some lack of context here. The FDA is still publicly funded. But about 45% of that funding comes from fees that pharmaceutical companies pay to get their medications tested, so that the FDA has the capacity to test said medications. It's a legal requirement, not a donation. So, yes, Pfizer did fund the FDA, but in the capacity that they were required to pay fees for all of their testing. They *could* test it for free, but that's another, like, 0.1 cents on your tax dollar, and less money pharmaceutical companies have to pay for testing, meaning they can send in things for testing that were even less scrutinized beforehand, because it would be cheaper for them to do so.