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1 Jul 2021
The House Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to approve an amendment prohibiting funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), after Dr. Anthony Fauci had approved nearly $1 million to be allocated to the lab located in Communist China.
The amendment to prohibit the funds, introduced by Rep. Guy Reschenthaler’s (R-PA), is now a part of a nearly $10 billion global health measure for the “prevention of future pandemics by improving the surveillance, detection, and response capabilities of countries around the world.”
It is deeply disturbing that American taxpayers footed the bill for over $1 million to support dangerous and potentially deadly research at the WIV, a laboratory run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and tied to military biological research. I thank my colleagues for including my amendment to end the flow of federal dollars to the WIV. We must ensure Americans’ hard-earned money never again funds risky experiments in labs operated by our adversaries.