WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, today released the following statement after the House passed the Senate companion to his bill that would require the Biden administration to declassify all the relevant intelligence surrounding the origins of COVID-19. The bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent last week, and now heads to the President’s desk to become law.
“In March of 2020, COVID shut down the world and upended our lives. But almost three years later, we still don’t understand how this virus began thanks to the CCP’s work to prevent any meaningful investigation into the origins of this virus. The American people deserve answers, and as I’ve said since 2021 when I first introduced this bill, we don’t have to wait for Xi Jinping to open up the Wuhan Institute of Virology to get them. The administration has had it within its authority to declassify all the relevant intelligence surrounding COVID, but they have repeatedly refused to take this easy but important step. That’s unacceptable, and I’m glad Congress is finally forcing their hand and acting – in overwhelming bipartisan fashion – to force the administration to finally declassify all its intelligence surrounding COVID.”
Gallagher has called for the administration to declassify its intelligence relating to COVID-19 for years and first introduced this legislation in 2021.
