Congress has quietly stopped funding medical research at labs controlled by Beijing or other American adversaries.
- Theories have surfaced claiming COVID-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China
- The U.S. has failed to outright confirm the theories, and the defunding happened quietly
- President Trump was notably slammed as “racist” for repeating the theory
- “None of the funds made available by this Act may be made available to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any other laboratory located in a country determined by the Secretary of State to be a foreign adversary, including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran,” says an amendment approved by the House Appropriations Committee.
Just the News reports:
With little fanfare and in bipartisan fashion, House appropriators quietly amended the 2023 federal budget for health and science agencies on Thursday to ban any funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which U.S. intelligence fears may have been the origin point for the coronavirus pandemic, and other labs like it.
“None of the funds made available by this Act may be made available to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any other laboratory located in a country determined by the Secretary of State to be a foreign adversary, including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran,” reads the amendment approved by the House Appropriations Committee.
You can read the amendment here:
