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After she led the charge to permanently debar the Wuhan Institute of Virology and defund EcoHealth Alliance from receiving U.S. taxpayer dollars, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) celebrated the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finally defunding EcoHealth and promised to cut off any taxpayer dollars used for research of pandemic potential.
An Ernst-requested investigation exposed how EcoHealth sent over $1 million U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for risky experiments on bat coronaviruses. She also called for an HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigation into EcoHealth that found the organization violated numerous federal grant requirements and conditions.
