Feb 4, 2025 · US News: Explore the connections between USAID, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the context of COVID-19 origins and global health initiatives.

Feb 4, 2025 · For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous — and, in many cases ...

4 days ago · To be sure, no one has established any direct link between the USAID-funded work at Wuhan and the COVID-19 pandemic. When testifying before Congress last year, former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci ...

4 days ago · USAID had an annual budget of more than $40 billion and managed aid programs around the world, including a China-related program that has become a target of criticism by the White House.

3 days ago · “In some cases with U.S.A.I.D., 10, 12, 13 percent, maybe less, of the money was actually reaching the recipient, and the rest was going into the overhead and the bureaucracy.”

Dec 19, 2024 · The State Dept. and USAID backed a controversial research project with China into novel viruses in 2019 even though it created new biosecurity risks.

Jun 14, 2023 · US taxpayers supported research in three Chinese labs that included risky gain-of-function experiments with coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a new government report found...

Mar 18, 2023 · The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the NIH and USAID, according to records reviewed by CBS News.

Feb 8, 2022 · A federal humanitarian agency won't answer key questions about its nearly $5 million grant to a research organization already under fire for its work at the Wuhan lab possibly linked to COVID-19.

Jun 14, 2023 · “Today, the GAO confirmed that U.S. taxpayer dollars awarded from the National Institutes of Health and USAID were ultimately used for research by entities in China, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was known to be doing coronavirus research.