U.S. Senators Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and other Republican senators are demanding USAID Administrator Samantha Power end the continued flow of taxpayer funds to the “EcoHealth Alliance,” an international non-government organization partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Many experts allege the Wuhan lab is the origin of the global COVID-19 pandemic, either through an accidental or intentional leak. EcoHealth's taxpayer funding arrangement allows it to avoid oversight of the coronavirus research it conducted at the Wuhan lab.
Marshall's letter documents EcoHealth's alleged “history of noncompliance with federal grant requirements” and “dishonesty about its use of federal grants to fund research at foreign labs like the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
“For years, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has paid EcoHealth Alliance (EcoHealth) millions of taxpayer dollars to operate as an offshore vehicle to channel USAID and other federal grants to foreign researchers,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, who signed the letter, in a statement.
Marshall's letter also notes that when the National Institutes of Health requested EcoHealth turn over its notes and documents on its Wuhan coronavirus research, EcoHealth claimed they did not keep such records, despite being legally required to do so.
“EcoHealth has sponsored risky research activities at the Wuhan Institute for Virology, with the National Institutes of Health determining that its research activities there posed ‘serious bio-safety concerns,'” Rubio adds. “USAID's continued funding of EcoHealth gives foreign researchers the ability to collect and experiment on dangerous pathogens with pandemic potential and prevents direct U.S. oversight.”
“In an August 3, 2022 hearing… expert witnesses testified that the type of viral collection gain-of-function research EcoHealth Alliance conducts with pandemic-capable pathogens ‘can emerge from such studies as potential weapons of mass destruction, inexpensive and easily distributed.' The research is more likely to cause a pandemic than prevent one and has no civilian practical applications from a research perspective,” adds Marshall, a medical doctor.
“USAID is empowered through federal laws and policies to immediately suspend its awards to EcoHealth… It is therefore incumbent upon USAID to be responsible stewards of U.S. taxpayer funds, help protect foreign researchers from risk, and immediately suspend all awards to EcoHealth. The suspension will allow time for USAID to investigate EcoHealth's oversight of foreign research programs, to include taking inventory of laboratory accidents and adverse events resulting in researcher illness, records-keeping audits, and assurance that EcoHealth is compliant with federal award requirements…,” the letter concludes.
Senators Tom Cotton (Ark.), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Rick Scott (Fla.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) cosigned Senator Marshall's letter.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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Amazing how freely our hard earned tax dollars are squandered. Yet the hiring of IRS personnel suggests that private citizens need monitoring. 🙄
The administration won’t do anything about those dollars going to China, that would hurt the Biden family income(kickback). Of course the Covid bug started there and was spread around the globe by carriers sent around the globe to accomplish that plan. Was that just the beginning of germ warfare from the Chinese in their quest to control the world.?
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We Taxpayers should Not be Funding any Labs, experimentally projects they are only trying to find ways to kill or maim people instead of cures for cancer, MS, other diseases, do you remember when they had a cure for any major disease,virus,even the flu nothing just more expensive medicine that really don’t work the ones that did they took away from us Taxpayers
WHY? If our government is that stupid, ignorant, or uncaring it should be changed but the average __fus on the street doesn’t know and probably pay attention, so the clowns are reelected to keep doing it. After hearing the reasoning for some people on the street who are supposed to be the average people I have no faith in 50 or 60 % of them.
Too many of them only heed the news on the GBS, Government Broadcasting System.
What more proof do folks need to demonstrate that the nation has fallen into the hands of elite blackguards who care no more for the common citizen in ‘flyover country’ than they would about a colony of invading fruit flies? Before you fall for the phony rhetoric about ‘equality’ or ‘inclusion,’ scrutinize their ACTIONS: ‘by their fruits ye shall know them.’
Nah, our government will declare the fruit fly a protected species, like the snail darter.
Yeah, maybe, but they’ll never protect the average American Citizen, never! It’s just not part of self-aggrandizement and treasonous fraud.
Were giving all this money to these labs in china, to kill people around the world,and 1,000,000 americans,what the hell is wrong with u.This corrupt, administration has been selling us out for some time,we need to end that.Impeach this lying,fake,phony,senile,frail,old,puppet fool, pretending to be president.Their aiding our enemy, and we aren’t doing anything about it?