Posted on 07/18/2023 9:19:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United States government has scraped funding for the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has long been scrutinized as the possible origin of COVID-19, after the facility didn’t fork over documents about safety and security, according to a report.
President Biden’s White House took the action Monday, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The Department of Health and Human Services informed the Wuhan lab of its determination and is looking to completely stop any future funds from going to the lab, the memo indicates.
After a review that started in September, the agency found the lab is not compliant with federal regulations.
“This action will ensure that [Wuhan Institute of Virology] does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson told the outlet.
The funding decision comes as the US and China continue to be at odds over the communist regime’s lack of transparency tied to the origin of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
The facility is no longer going to receive federal dollars from the US, according to a report.
Two federal agencies, including the FBI, believe the start of COVID was the result of a lab leak while five others have asserted the virus spread to humans as a result of natural transmission from an infected animal.
The CIA and other agencies have not sided one way or another.
The deadly virus has killed 7 million people across the globe.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
My cup of irony overfloweth here
EcoHealth also funneled funds from the US Agency for International Development to the WIV.
Earlier this year, HHS’s Office of Inspector General conducted an audit that determined that the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance didn’t effectively monitor awards and subawards, limiting their ability to understand the nature of research conducted and identify problem areas.
...
The lab won’t be able to conduct any business with US as an agent or representative of others, and its affiliation with any organization that does business with the federal government will also be carefully examined. -Bloomberg
That said, the Wuhan lab can contest the suspension and proposed disbarment - a relatively rare event. The decision to defund the lab was done independently of the US intelligence community, Bloomberg further reports.
In June, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report which identified several safety and security issues at the WIV that could have contributed to a lab leak.
Fed Gov all over it.
Go ahead tards, continue with your BS.
[has scraped funding]
From the genius “journalists” at MSN and friends
Dictionary
Definitions from Oxford Languages
scrape
verb
past tense: scraped; past participle: scraped
1.push or pull a hard or sharp implement across (a surface or object) so as to remove dirt or other matter.
“we scraped the dishes clean”
2. rub or cause to rub by accident against a rough or hard surface, causing damage or injury.
“he smashed into the wall and felt his knee scrape against the plaster”
C’mon New York Post!
`
You made me look. I thought maybe a typo from the OP.
Nope. MSN is scraping the bottom of the barrel in copy.
Three years later...
Suspend funds for FBI for stonewalling effing everything.
Yeah, I had to look too; and there it was.
They all must be saving a lot of money with no copy editors!!
That "about 'F' in 'time'" for low information voters.
Any further “translations” makes one a certified bonified DIM -o-CRAP.
Why were we still funding it?! Did Pres. Trump still trust Fauci that much to keep the payments going, or did he tell someone to stop the funding but was ignored?
My money:
Initially, yes.
Later on...like around April 2020...yes
WTH are we sending ANY money for ANY kind of research to China? Why wasn’t this money flow shut off in March 2020 in the first place? Why did it take 3 years and 3 months to shut off the money?
What’s the hurry? /s
Wouldn’t we cut that money flow off as soon as it was
discovered, and then prosecute anyone who had supported
it in the first place?
Think of the money saved by not having to transmit the bits for millions of “p” characters.
It took them a long time. It must have been hard to take money away from their ally.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.