PROGRESS: Following WCW campaign, U.S. House DEFUNDS EcoHealth Alliance, Key Funder of Wuhan Animal Lab

by Meg McCarney · in Blog


Congress is continuing to crack down on funding for the entities responsible for dangerous coronavirus experiments on bats and humanized mice that may have caused the pandemic.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives both passed legislation that defunds the Wuhan Animal Lab.

Now, following a WCW campaign, the House has voted to prohibit the Department of Defense from funding EcoHealth Alliance, the shady U.S. non-profit that funneled tax dollars to the Wuhan lab and has refused to answer questions from Congress about it. EcoHealth has received tens of millions of dollars from the DOD for risky virus experiments on animals. The effort was led by Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) and garnered bipartisan support.

Earlier this year, Rep. Reschenthaler also introduced the Defund EcoHealth Alliance Act to permanently prohibit any federal funding for the group.