‘You lied to us’: Hawley explodes at NIH Director over Wuhan lab funding, secret China ties and more – The Economic Times Video

Senator Josh Hawley criticized NIH Director Dr. about the flow of US funding to Wuhan and other Chinese laboratories. While he faces Jay Bhattacharya, a heated debate is taking place in the Senate. Hawley is pressing for answers about whether the National Institutes of Health has conducted a full review of taxpayer money flowing to foreign research facilities at the center of the COVID-19 origins debate. Dr. Bhattacharya acknowledged that the review was ongoing and incomplete, promising to work with the Congress; It’s a response that has triggered harsh criticism from lawmakers demanding transparency after years of controversy over gain-of-function research, EcoHealth Alliance grants and pandemic accountability. The conflict has reignited questions about what U.S. agencies knew, who approved the funding and whether the American public was misled about risky overseas experiments.

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