House Republicans launch subcommittee investigation into COVID-19 origins
David Sivak
The Republican-led Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic sent letters to Dr. Anthony Fauci and top Biden administration officials on Monday requesting documents and transcribed testimony as it investigates the origins of COVID-19.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), the subcommittee’s chairman, claimed the Biden administration has been “less than forthcoming” in its responses to House Republicans, who made the same requests in the 117th Congress, when they were in the House minority. House Republicans believe the virus may have come from a lab in Wuhan, China, whose research was in part funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars.
The acting director of the National Institutes of Health testified last week before the House Energy and Commerce Committee that viruses being researched at the Wuhan facility bear no resemblance to the strain that caused the coronavirus pandemic.
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