'Everything about this is rotten to the core and if we don’t bring him to justice we’ll never get the control we need on this type of research to try and prevent it from happening again.'
‘[M]y administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that would harm national security,’ Biden said in a statement.
The hesitation comes after the 'COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023,' first introduced in the Senate by Republican U.S Sen. Josh Hawley Missouri, achieved unanimous approval from both chambers of Congress in the past weeks.
The measure will require the Biden administration's Director of National Intelligence to declassify all documents pertaining to the origins of the COVID-19 virus.
The bill, introduced by Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, comes after the U.S. Department of Energy concluded that the COVID-19 outbreak ‘most likely’ originated from a Chinese lab leak, a concept previously denounced as a conspiracy theory.
Despite stepping back from their roles at NIH, both Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci could be called to testify about the origins of COVID-19 if Republicans win a majority in either chamber of Congress this fall.