GOP senators Mike Braun and Josh Hawley chide White House for missing deadline to disclose virus origins
, through the director of national intelligence, had 90 days to disclose the information under the COVID Origins Act that President Biden signed into law in March.
They said the deadline came and went Sunday and suggested the delay was tied to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s diplomacy in Beijing.is now overdue to declassify their COVID lab leak intel, and there is no ‘secretary of state is meeting with Xi Jinping’ exception in the law President Biden signed,” Mr. Braun said.
The administration and lawmakers in both parties say they want to understand the origins of the coronavirus that killed over 1 million Americans and millions more worldwide. Capitol Hill lawmakers pointed to evidence the virus might have slipped from a lab in Wuhan where scientists worked on it, though haven’t landed a smoking gun that proves it outright.U.S. agencies have looked into the question of whether a lab leak or natural spillover is to blame for the COVID-19 crisis.
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