On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported about the origins of COVID-19. The U.S. Energy Department confirmed that the virus was leaked from a Chinese lab.
The Senate Republicans are now demanding answers.
Senator Dan Sullivan from Alaska demanded “extensive” hearings regarding the origins of COVID-19. He also criticized China’s attempts to “shut people up” when several of them started questioning the origins of the virus.
While talking with Chuck Todd on NBC show Meet the Press, Sullivan stated:
“I think we need to do extensive hearings. I hope our Democratic colleagues in the Congress can support that. I know the Republicans in the House are certainly supportive of that.”
Sullivan added:
“Look, this is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world. We just saw that with this Chinese spy balloon. It’s the nature of a Communist dictatorship to lie to their own people, to lie to the world. But I think that we need to make sure every country knows that and then look at what the consequences could be.”
Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri tweeted:
“The American people deserve the full truth about #covid origins. No more whitewash. I will again introduce legislation to make the US government’s intelligence reports on covid open to the people.”
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wrote:
“Classified documents leaked (they should be declassified!) showing scientists at DOE believe COVID leaked from Wuhan Lab.”
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has often highlighted the possibility that the COVID-19 virus was the result of a lab leak in Wuhan and has been demanding investigations regarding it since 2020.
However, Sen. Cotton was brutally lambasted by the Washington Post and the New York Times in February 2020 and stated that Cotton was just spreading “fringe theory.”
