The Biden administration formally suspended funding for the Chinese lab at the center of the COVID-19 origin controversy in a move Rep. Chris Stewart says was long overdue.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration formally suspended funding for the Chinese lab at the"This was a complete no-brainer. It was apparent from the very beginning they should not have had funding," Stewart said during a phone call with the Deseret News.Wuhan Institute of Virology
Between 2014 and 2020, the Wuhan lab received $1.4 million from the NIH and U.S. Agency for International Development, according to the Government Accountability Office. While the Wuhan Institute has not received research funding from the U.S. government since the Trump administration terminated a grant in 2020, Stewart says a formal suspension like the one issued this week was necessary to demonstrate the lab did not meet adequate safety standards.
It's not a conspiracy theory to ask that question. And yet, that's exactly the way it was treated. We were treated as if we were nuts for even suggesting it.Stewart said his position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has given him unique access to information surrounding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It's not a conspiracy theory to ask that question. And yet, that's exactly the way it was treated. We were treated as if we were nuts for even suggesting it," Stewart said. On Tuesday, Sen. Mitt Romney introduced an expansive pandemic preparedness bill in the Senate that would, among other things, "cut off funding for research in China, particularly for gain-of-function research."
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