Lawmakers also highlighted that ‘the Open The Books report found that at least 59 payments originated from the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products’
Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy is demanding answers from the acting director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about payments to employees from foreign entities, including some connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Roy led a letter with 14 of his House GOP colleagues to acting NIH Director Lawrence Tabak on Wednesday about government watchdog Open The Books’ report that said agency employees took $325 million in payments from 31 private companies worldwide.
Citing Open The Books, the lawmakers wrote that some of the payments between 2008 and 2021 came from companies “affiliated” with the CCP.