The House Committee on Appropriations voted Thursday to advance a budget that would defund research labs in adversarial countries, including China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
The legislation would include defunding the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which some believe is the origin point for the coronavirus pandemic. Chinese institutions, including the WIV, received millions of dollars in funding from various government agencies for at least a decade, in some cases to conduct dangerous gain-of-function research on deadly viruses.
At least 30 foreign labs conducting animal experiments will be cut off from U.S. funding as a result of the bill if it’s fully passed, according to taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW). The bill will now go to the full floor of the House of Representatives for a vote.
The language is part of the fiscal year 2023 funding package for America’s public health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH, and specifically Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), had previously facilitated millions of dollars of funding to 100 Chinese institutions, including the WIV.
Almost two-thirds of Americans are opposed to funding animal experiments in countries that are adversaries of the U.S., according to one poll. The bill also increases the funding of the CDC and NIH by billions of dollars.
It’s about time! But does that mean they will bring these dangerous labs to the US?
Yea, we’ll see if it passes. The Dems will vote against it so they can get their greedy kick backs.
Stop spending on anything except protection for our people for two years! This crap about helping everybody so certain people get kickbacks has got to be stopped . One way or another!! We collect enough taxes it’s a joke where it all goes and WHO it benefit’s!!!
Some believe the China virus started in the wuhan lab????? Anybody with a brain knows this!!!!!!!!!!!!!