Trump freezes funding for virus research blamed for starting COVID-19 pandemic

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In April, the White House launched a new website blaming U.S.-funded research for the start of the pandemic.
52% : Republicans have speculated since the beginning of the pandemic that SARS-CoV-2 originated from research projects on bat coronaviruses funded by the National Institutes of Health and conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
42% : Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who has been at the forefront of political debates on gain-of-function since 2020, told the Washington Examiner in December that he intends to use his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee to investigate why the P3CO Committee did not oversee NIH-funded research on bat coronaviruses conducted in China.

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