<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) went on a tear Wednesday against Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Fauci</a> over the longtime government health official&#8217;s resistance to the theory that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> came from a lab leak in Wuhan, China.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was trying to cover his backside, and everybody knows it,&#8221; Jordan declared <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/investigating-the-origins-of-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during a hearing of the</a> Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. &#8220;And that&#8217;s the part that ticks us off.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is the highest paid guy in our government getting all kinds of money to tell us things that were not accurate,&#8221; Jordan continued. &#8220;We now know U.S. tax dollars went to a lab in China, a lab that was not up to code, a lab that was doing gain-of-function research, and that&#8217;s where this thing most definitely came from.&#8221;</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New intelligence reportedly led the Energy Department</a> to assess with &#8220;low confidence&#8221; that the pandemic likely began with a lab leak, a shift from its prior stance of being undecided. Some scientists and many Republicans have long claimed that the virus originated in a lab and that China has been engaged in a cover-up, which <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3087915/china-denies-coronavirus-cover-and-insists-relations-rest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beijing has denied</a>. Other U.S. agencies and a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/09/who-outlines-wuhan-findings-on-origins-of-covid-pandemic.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">preliminary World Health Organization assessment</a> from 2021 have placed more faith in the natural emergence theory — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-blames-attacks-on-china-not-china-for-covid-origins-impasse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a view that Fauci has favored</a>.</p>
<p>A longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci became the face of the federal government&#8217;s response to COVID during the Trump and Biden administrations. He even became President Joe Biden&#8217;s chief medical adviser, a role in which he served until his retirement from government at the end of last year.</p>
<p>Republicans who have pledged to investigate Fauci have placed a major focus on federal funding for bat coronavirus research with ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/04/fauci-says-rand-paul-egregiously-incorrect-about-gain-of-function-research.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vociferously denies</a> the work amounted to gain-of-function research. But money that went elsewhere also has attracted interest from investigators.</p>
<p>During his five minutes, Jordan raced through a timeline of events during the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020 and questioned why a pair of leading virologists <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/covid-lab-leak-virologist-changed-tune-fauci-funding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared to flip</a> from favoring the lab leak theory to rejecting the hypothesis without the emergence of new scientific data. A possible explanation, Jordan offered, was <a href="https://andersen-lab.com/new-niaid-funded-center-established/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a grant</a> for nearly $9 million. &#8220;There&#8217;s 9 million reasons why they changed their mind,&#8221; the congressman quipped.</p>
<p>Jordan also talked about how the government&#8217;s COVID task force kept former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, who was a witness at the hearing Wednesday, &#8220;out of the loop&#8221; for having a different view to not so quickly discount the theory that COVID emerged from a lab leak.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Keeping him out of the loop probably — potentially could have harmed America —&#8221; Jordan said, before taking a moment to collect his thoughts. &#8220;That&#8217;s the thing that ticks us all off,&#8221; he went on to say before expressing how important it is to get to the bottom of COVID&#8217;s origins.</p>

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