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This move follows previous efforts to block funding to EHA and labs run by America's adversaries. The White Coat Waste Project recently provided receipts, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, that indicated EHA and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were involved in research that may have led to the deaths of over 1.1 million Americans and over 6.9 million people worldwide. Federal documents revealed that EHA administered at least $38 million in USAID funds to a project on which one of the Wuhan Institute of Virology's "patients zero" was listed as an "investigator."

The WCW's findings showed that EHA subcontractor Ben Hu was among the first infected with COVID-19 at the Chinese military-co-opted Wuhan lab and was the lab's lead gain-of-function researcher who routinely conducted deadly experiments on coronaviruses. The WCW indicated that since March 2020, USAID has handed over $11 million to EHA, and the Department of Defense reportedly provided Daszak's organization with another $26 million in that time, with the National Science Foundation giving it another $263,801. The National Institutes of Health also renewed a grant to EHA in May. According to USA Spending, the NIH and other government agencies have funneled taxpayer money into EcoHealth Alliance since 2008.

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The 2024 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Bill, reported by Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R), will put EHA in the same limitations camp as countries deemed foreign adversaries by the secretary of state. The bill states that none of the funds made available by this act "may be made available to support, directly or indirectly."

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WCW reportedly worked with Appropriations Committee members Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.), Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), and Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) on these measures in recent months. Justin Goodman, senior vice President at WCW, said in a statement, “Our blockbuster investigations prove that the disgraced EcoHealth Alliance secretively shipped U.S. taxpayer dollars from USAID to COVID’s likely Patient Zero Ben Hu at the CCP-run Wuhan lab for dangerous gain-of-function experiments on humanized mice that violated federal policy and that the FBI and other experts believe caused COVID. But, despite EHA’s calamitous collaboration with the Wuhan animal lab and its well-documented waste, fraud, and abuse, EHA has raked in over $11 million in new taxpayer funds from USAID just since the pandemic began. Enough is enough."

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Iowa Senator Joni Ernst (R) stated that she would offer amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act to ensure that no defense dollars go to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, cut off further payments from the Pentagon to EHA, and conduct an independent investigation to determine if EHA diverted any U.S. Defense dollars into the Wuhan Institute or any other Chinese lab or spent it to create enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential.

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The White Coat Waste Project will continue its work to get gain-of-function experiments defunded and "permanently cut off the grifters at EcoHealth, the Wuhan lab, and all other animal labs run by China, Russia, and adversarial nations," said Goodman. TheBlaze reached out to EcoHealth Alliance and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart for comment, but neither had responded by publication.