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Wuhan Lab Kept NIH Funding Despite Trump Crackdown

Federal records show the U.S. government is partnering with the Wuhan Institute of Virology even though the Trump administration pledged to ban funding for the Chinese laboratory located at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.

President Donald Trump promised that he would “end” public funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology during an April 17 press conference. Despite his promise, the National Institutes of Health has left untouched a 2019 neuroscience research grant that disbursed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Chinese laboratory, according to a federal expenditure database. The NIH earmarked most of the $4.3 million grant to U.C. Irvine, which the California public university used to funnel $216,108 in taxpayer money to a Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher as a “sub-grant.”

The Trump administration previously cracked down on a different U.S.-based group that occupied a similar intermediary role between the NIH and the Chinese lab. The Trump-era NIH temporarily stopped funding a bat coronavirus research project managed by New York-based environmental nonprofit EcoHealth because nearly $600,000 of the $3.7 million grant went toward the Chinese institute. The NIH later reinstated some of the funding after intense blowback from academics but imposed hefty conditions on its usage that EcoHealth said would “effectively block” it from finishing the bat coronavirus research project.

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4 thoughts on “Wuhan Lab Kept NIH Funding Despite Trump Crackdown”

  1. Just goes to show you how corrupt Dr. Fauci really is. He has been telling Democrat Lies for years and he certainly is not stopping now. Now the traitor we have as a President is going to give our taxpayer money to the WUHAN lab. Welcome to Bidens communist China.

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