What a night! What an event!
Thank you so much to everyone who joined our emergency telephone town hall with Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA)!
Sen. Ernst recently joined White Coat Waste Project to given an update on our campaigns to investigate and defund to the Wuhan Animal Lab and to Stop NIH Foreign Aid all around the world.
If you couldn’t make the event, or you’d like to listen again, we’ve got a recording here:
Joni Ernst is one of the premier Waste Warriors in the U.S. Senate. And she’s been working hand-in-hand with our team to win the War on Waste:
- Introduced the STOP Act to cut payouts to any taxpayer-funded grantees like EcoHealth that violate federal law or refuse to answer questions from Congress.
- Introduced the COST Act, a transparency bill requiring all taxpayer-funded animal experimenters to publicly disclose the cost of their wasteful projects.
- Demanded answers about rogue labs’ chronic and ongoing noncompliance with a long-standing law that requires anyone receiving taxpayer dollars to publicly disclose how much they spend.
- Signed a letter urging the NIH to keep its prohibition on taxpayer-funded hybrid animal experiments intact.
- Introduced an amendment to the Innovation and Competition Act that that passed the Senate to permanently prohibit taxpayer funding from going to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- Introduced Delilah’s Law to prohibit government labs for purchasing dogs and cats from wet markets in China.
- Signed a letter to ensure no US stimulus money was sent to Wuhan Animal Lab
????JUST REVEALED: In 2020, @NIH used $140M in U.S. taxpayer money to fund animal testing in foreign countries—including Russia & China.
Iowans & Americans deserve to know how their hard-earned tax dollars are being spent. My COST Act would do exactly that. https://t.co/5AOKoBVEqZ
— Joni Ernst (@joniernst) July 7, 2021
There’s no reason Iowa taxpayers should continue to foot the bill for organizations that fail to follow federal laws—particularly one that could hold answers to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic like EcoHealth Alliance. https://t.co/uan9bBpL7Y
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) June 16, 2021
Today, the Senate unanimously agreed with me that not another dime of taxpayer dollars should be spent subsidizing Communist China’s state-run Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) May 25, 2021
