House Panel Votes to Cut Funding to Chinese Researchers in Wake of COVID Pandemic

A House panel this week passed several measures aimed at cutting U.S. taxpayer funding for scientific research in China, as a growing number of lawmakers increase calls for transparency into the origins of COVID-19. The House Appropriations Committee passed several measures attached to spending bills that would end U.S. taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), cut funding for certain medical experiments in China, and investigate why COVID gene sequencing data was removed from the National Institutes of Health. "We owe it to the more than 600,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19 and their loved ones -…