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It s Sunshine Week, meaning that it s time to expose some of the more egregious uses of American taxpayer dollars. For instance, do we really need to be funding Princeton s research to lock monkeys in cages to hear them say, Will you marry me? You can read more about that nonsense here.
But more seriously, American dollars have reportedly subsidized research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. For more than a decade, Eco Health Alliance has been sending teams to China to trap bats, collect samples of their blood, saliva and feces, and check those samples for new coronaviruses, as NPR reported last year. The White Coat Waste Project helped uncover the scandal. As vice president Justin Goodman put it, we were funding treacherous research in China.
Sen. Ernst to Introduce Bill Mandating Tracking White House, Executive Branch Carbon Emissions
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) says she is introducing legislation that would require the federal government to track and make public the carbon emissions produced by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and executive branch departments and agencies.
“What I’ve done is put forward some new legislation which will track the carbon emissions of White House and executive branch officials,” Ernst told reporters on March 17 during a digital news conference to mark Sunshine Week.
Sunshine Week celebrates important transparency-in-government laws such as the federal Freedom of Information Act and the March 16 birthday of President James Madison, one of the main authors of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. “Thirty-five years after drafting the Constitution, Madison wrote that democracy without information is ‘but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy,’” Sen. Chuck Grassley (
US Nonprofit With Ties to Wuhan Lab Violated Federal Law by Failing to Disclose Taxpayer Funding, Complaint Alleges
A U.S. nonprofit with close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology violated federal law by failing to disclose that taxpayer funds supported its work, according to a complaint a taxpayer watchdog group filed on Monday.
EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) diverted $600,000 in taxpayer funds to the WIV in the form of National Institutes of Health subgrants between 2014 and 2019 as part of a research project studying coronaviruses from Chinese bats. But press releases from EHA describing the project failed to disclose that the project was backed by federal dollars, an omission that, according to the White Coat Waste Project, is a violation of a federal law known as the Stevens Amendment.
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