GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Stop Gain of Function Research

Physician and Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall led a group of GOP senators to introduce a new bill that would end all federal research grants funding gain of function research on potential pandemic pathogens.

The legislation, called the Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act, is designed to strengthen national security against future potential pandemics following the global consequences of COVID-19.

“It’s outrageous that a comprehensive global investigation on the origins of COVID-19 has still not been carried out, and with mounting evidence pointing towards the labs in Wuhan, additional guardrails on gain-of-function research must be established to make sure nothing like this ever happens again,” Marshall said in a news release regarding the bill.

“For the last decade, Dr. Fauci has funded gain-of-function research on SARS viruses, and until we get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19, the federal government should not provide another dime in funding for viral gain-of-function research in the name of global 🏥Health,” he added.

Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst urged lawmakers to pass the legislation to “prevent another pandemic from ever happening again.”

“While Communist China continues to keep the American people and the world in the dark about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wuhan lab-linked organizations like EcoHealth Alliance are failing to tell the truth about U.S. taxpayer money being doled out to fund their dangerous studies on coronaviruses,” Ernst said, according to the release.