Mon Oct 3, 2022 – 8:21 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa introduced a bill Friday that would prohibit federal funding for EcoHealth Alliance, the non-profit that helped to fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In a statement to the Daily Caller, Ernst noted that “Giving taxpayer money to EcoHealth to study pandemic prevention is like paying a suspected arsonist to conduct fire safety inspections.”
“[The National Institutes of Health (NIH)] got it right when it canceled the funding for the experiments EcoHealth Alliance was conducting with China’s state-run Wuhan Institute,” Ernst continued. “In addition to violating multiple federal laws, EcoHealth has still not turned over documents about these dangerous studies that NIH has requested on multiple occasions that could offer vital clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
In addition to prohibiting federal funding for EcoHealth Alliance, the bill also proposes that the Comptroller General of the United States “shall conduct a study, and submit a report to Congress, regarding the amount of Federal funds awarded to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc., during the 10-year period preceding such date of enactment, that were provided, whether purposely or inadvertently, to the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese
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