Somehow this isn’t a shocking bit of news. It seems that China may have double-billed U.S. agencies for Wuhan lab projects. Like, by a LOT.

“What I’ve found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds. It is concerning, especially since it involves dangerous pathogens and risky research,” said Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator with over two decades of experience combating white collar crime and healthcare fraud. 

After spending weeks combing through records, Cutler sounded the alarm. How much has the U.S. been double-billed for? 

Cutler said she has viewed over 50,000 documents, and that the U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for possible medical supplies, equipment, travel and salaries.

Sources told CBS News that tens of millions of dollars could be involved.

MILLIONS of dollars funneled into China. Now, which federal agencies were involved in awarding these grants for work in the Wuhan labs? You guessed it. The National Institute of Health and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). And, guess, just GUESS which one of the labs benefitted from this money and evidently no oversight?? 

Among them was the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where taxpayers funded controversial gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses that federal officials now admit may have led to the COVID-19 pandemic.

You. Don’t. Say. 

So let’s recap for a minute. Over 50,000 records are being reviewed and it’s becoming readily apparent to an expert in healthcare fraud that the U.S. has been double-billed for such fun items as travel, medical equipment, supplies and salaries, and NO ONE was looking over their shoulder to verify if these expenses were genuine??

Our government bureaucracy hard at work guys. With Top Men at the helm. Including Fauci, who is trying his damndest to insist the Covid virus happened naturally and not really but only kind of sort of somehow accidentally came from the lab, but didn’t meet the definition of a leak. 

“One possibility is a bat bit a mouse that bit a human who worked in a lab w/a virus on a marmot which escaped to a wet market & got snatched by a flying squirrel that bit a human & started a pandemic as a natural occurrence…

Another is an engineered virus escaped from a lab.”

— Razor (@hale_razor) March 12, 2023

You can darned well bet Fauci and Collins are now scrambling to ensure that they don’t get penalized for THEIR lack of oversight on these government grants. 

So are they going to let @RandPaul put the cuffs on Fauci himself or can he just smile at him from the back of the room while it happens? https://t.co/2qbp2rVknK

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) March 13, 2023

This comes at a time when we find out that masks were mostly ineffective, and that yes, there was a lab leak. Which prompted, amazingly, ALL of the Senate and House to agree on something. 

The House on Friday unanimously passed its version of a Senate-approved bill that would force the White House to declassify intelligence reports about the origins of the global pandemic and its ties to a Chinese lab.

The 419-0 vote sends the bill to Biden’s desk completely unopposed in Congress after the Senate approved the measure by unanimous consent last week.

Yes, that’s totally amazing and yes, it will tank any chance Biden has (if he decides to) for reelection if he doesn’t sign this. 

This news about getting double-billed by Wuhan labs is cause for concern on multiple levels. A. How much money are we talking about? B. What labs and what work are they engaged in? C. Who was in charge of monitoring all of this? Whomever they are, they should be fired. 

If a 9/11 style commission IS possible, the commission needs to look at EVERYTHING and turn over every single rock they stumble across. That includes the labs, the funding, the fraud, Fauci, Collins, and the egregious pandemic response that has been detrimental to so many. 

Meanwhile, until this investigation is done, I’d strongly suggest all funding streams to Wuhan labs be shut down immediately. 

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