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Ernst Slams Democrats, Media for Dismissing Wuhan Lab Leak Theory, Highlights Effort to Debar Wuhan Institute from Receiving Taxpayer Dollars

This week, Biden’s Department of Energy admitted the COVID-19 virus likely resulted from a lab leak in China.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) slammed Democrats, the media, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for dismissing those who suspected that the COVID-19 virus leaked from China’s dangerous Wuhan Institute of Virology as “conspiracy theorists.”  

Ernst highlighted that at least $1.7 million U.S. tax dollars went to this lab for risky research on bat coronaviruses and noted her ongoing effort to immediately and permanently debar the Wuhan Institute from receiving another cent of U.S. funding.

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Click here or the image above to watch Senator Ernst’s full remarks.

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