Rand Paul Asks Samantha Power: “Did USAID Fund Coronavirus Research in Wuhan, China?”

Rand Paul Asks Samantha Power: “Did USAID Fund Coronavirus Research in Wuhan, China?”

“Should we be funding the Academy of Military Medical Research in China? … Some of the research proposals in 2018 involved the Wuhan Institute of Virology requesting funding to create a virus with a furin cleavage site—a SARS-like coronavirus with a furin cleavage site. That is exactly what COVID-19 turned out to be.

So we want to know if there were other research proposals that you either granted or denied that were in the same vein—creating viruses that could have led to COVID-19. We can’t tell because you won’t give us information… I now have 25 Senators who have sent you a letter, and you aren’t responding… You are being dishonest.”