One of the biggest targets of President Donald Trump’s administration has been the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). As we noted in a previous report, thousands of bureaucrats in that destructive agency are slated to be fired by this September.
“USAID” may truly be one of the most ironic names of all times. The magnitude of chaos and corruption it engaged in is still being assessed. It has literally harmed our country, especially in terms of America’s relationship with other nations.
There is one recent revelation that is truly astonishing. In an exclusive report, The Daily Caller reviews previously unreported documents show that USAID shipped nearly 11,000 viral samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China over a decade-long period, primarily through its PREDICT program.
The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province, where some of the closest relatives of the COVID-19 virus circulate, to Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, with no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government.A $210 million USAID public health program called PREDICT, steered by the University of California-Davis, collected viral samples in countries throughout the globe but lacked long-term storage when funding dried up, according to rudimentary plans in 2019.USAID’s sample dispensation plan for China is sparse: “No need [sic] information from Yunnan. They were never an official lab partner for PREDICT. All samples they helped collected [sic] are sent to, tested, and stored in Wuhan.”
USAID also directed millions to EcoHealth Alliance, which was one of the entities that partnered with the Chinese researchers at the laboratories in Wuhan, where the COVID virus now appears to have been created.
Those same programs also directed millions of dollars in grant funding to the New York-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance and its subgrantee, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—two organizations that feature prominently in investigations into the possibility that COVID-19 was an engineered virus that escaped from a lab.EcoHealth Alliance, its now-former president Peter Daszak, and WIV were all debarred from receiving federal funding during the Biden administration for failing to abide by restrictions and transparency requirements related to virological experiments they were conducting in Wuhan—where the COVID-19 outbreak started.Those experiments involved collecting SARS-like coronavirus viruses in the field, from both animal and human sources, and then manipulating them in at WIV.
You might think that an organization that helped create the conditions leading to a global pandemic might be a bit more humble and restrained in policy-making going forward.
Current and former USAID and State Department officials are using their expertise in undermining authoritarian regimes abroad against President Donald Trump and his agenda at home, according to a new report Monday.The Trump administration is still in the process of terminating thousands of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers by September as the agency restructures to fall in line with the president’s “America First” policy.NOTUS reporter Jose Pagliery reported, however, that “Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power.”
USAID: A bureaucratic pathogen that continues to sicken the nation. Hopefully, the Trump administration, especially Secretary of State Marco Rubio, can find a cure quickly.
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