Missouri Senator writes to China President Xi “Time is up” on COVID origins

WASHINGTON — After the House unanimously passed Senator Hawley’s (R-Mo.) COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, Senator Hawley responded to the Chinese Embassy’s letter to his office urging him to abandon his efforts to declassify intelligence related to any potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of the Covid pandemic.

Hawley wrote back:

March 10, 2023

Dear President Xi,

Today the U.S. House of Representatives followed the Senate in unanimously adopting my bill to declassify U.S. government intelligence on the origins of the COVID virus. I know you are keenly interested in this bill—your own Communist officials have written to my office demanding we renounce it, in their usual lecturing, idiotic style.

But the bill will soon be law—unless you can convince President Biden to veto it. Time is up. Come clean about your role in spreading COVID to the world.

Very sincerely yours,

Josh Hawley
United States Senator