by Jennie Taer
Republican Florida Rep. Brian Mast introduced legislation to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a copy of the bill obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The bill seeks to allow the U.S. government to withhold debt payments to China equal to the cost incurred by the U.S. in response to the pandemic. The bill’s introduction comes days after the Department of Energy (DOE) found that the virus likely originated from a lab leak in China.
“For years, mainstream media dismissed the lab leak as a conspiracy theory, and as a result, the CCP and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were allowed to deny, deny, deny,” Mast said in a statement to the DCNF.
“Now even our own Department of Energy is admitting that a lab leak is the most likely cause, and it’s past time for China to take responsibility for the deception, cover-up, and outright lies that led to millions of deaths and massive economic consequences,” Mast said.
The Chinese Communist Party previously pushed against the World Health Organization for wanting to investigate the origins of the virus. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have tried to probe the root of the COVID pandemic possibly stemming from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
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Jennie Taer is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Brian Mast” by Congressman Brian Mast. Background Photo “U.S. Capitol” by Grant Page.
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I have been saying fir two years that the Chinese Communist government should be forced by the world community headed by the United States to pay reparations for anyone anywhere in the world who has been affected by their deliberate development and spread of the Coronavirus. This would include anything from inconvenience to family life, purchase of masks, loss if income, stress, disruption of school, job situations, rising costs of products and services, shortages if products, food, gas, medical costs, inability to receive medical care, loss of life, etc. In other simple terms anything that changed life for anyone in any country except their own. Their government should be removed and the United Nations oversee the establishment of republic with duly elected people in free elections with no existing government officials in Chinese allowed to ever be elected or served.