For once, the system worked & the GOP-led House & Dem-led Senate both passed bills cutting DOD funding to EcoHealth Alliance. DOD is EHA's #1 top funder & gives them WMD $.
Now, the Senate is trying to sabotage democracy to keep $ flowing to EcoHealth.
Can confirm that Armed Services intends to ignore the House, Senate & taxpayers' will & instead strip out the full defunds & only prevent EcoHealth from spending DOD $ in China (where it's already stopped working as far as I know).
Nov 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
House just passed @RepPfluger amendment to the FY24 NIH spending bill to cut $3,748,715 from the NIH Director budget to make up for the tax $ NIAID gave EcoHealth for the grant that funded #gainoffunction research at the Wuhan animal lab that likely caused COVID #DefundEcoHealth
House just unanimously passed @RepGosar amendment cutting NIH funding for two active grants to EcoHealth, including the grant that funded #gainoffunction experiments at the Wuhan animal lab & another funding virus-hunting & animal experiments abroad #DefundEcoHealth
Oct 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
WH memo: "𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐚𝐛 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 w/ the rise in the number of labs around the world conducting high-risk life sciences research & research w/ potential pandemic pathogens w/o appropriate oversight”
whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
Oct '22 WH memo continues: "labs w/ insufficient biocontainment or biosafety protocols & practices exacerbate the risk of an outbreak through lab-acquired infections or accidental release of a pathogen
into the environment" #LabLeak 🦠
