Congress Quietly Left Door Open To Funding EcoHealth-CCP Work

  EcoHealth Alliance - the nonprofit that infamously funneled taxpayer funds into the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat-based coronavirus research - was given a shocking loophole in Congress's omnibus spending package to receive money for research in China supported by the country's communist leadership.

None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to fund any work to be performed by EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. in China on research supported by the government of China unless the Secretary of Defense determines that a waiver to such prohibition is in the national security interests of the United States.

What "National security interest" could there possibly be in EcoHealth Alliance directing funds into China for research supported by the Chinese Communist Party? The Federalist reached out to the Department of Defense and asked that very question but never heard back.

What most don't know is that the biggest government funder of EcoHealth Alliance is not the NIAID, but the Department of Defense, which since 2008, has allotted EcoHealth Alliance $46 million.

What reason could our military have that it cannot go nine months without sending research money to China via EcoHealth Alliance? We don't know.

In sum, we do not know who put the loophole in the spending bill, and we also do not know what "Security interests" the Pentagon has in sending research money to China via the corrupt EcoHealth Alliance.

EcoHealth Alliance's public funding should have been suspended two years ago, and a U.S.-run investigation should have been launched into the origins of the virus and EcoHealth Alliance's connection to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/03/congress-quietly-left-the-door-open-to-funneling-more-tax-dollars-to-ecohealth-research-in-china-for-national-security/