WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday began their promised scrutiny of the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, requesting testimony from Anthony Fauci and current Biden administration officials, along with classified briefings and documents from U.S. intelligence agencies.
The new Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic essentially seeks to bring more emphasis to theories that the spread of COVID-19 originated out of laboratory experiments in Wuhan, China, possibly backed by U.S. money, rather than at a Wuhan market.
Representative Brad Wenstrup of Ohio, the chairman of the panel, said it intends to end what he characterized as stonewalling by government scientists and government-funded researchers about what they knew about U.S. dollars that were allegedly funneled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
