Tom Cotton: ‘Dr. Fauci Is Playing Word Games’ About U.S. Taxpayer Money Being Sent To Wuhan Lab

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was “playing word games” about U.S. taxpayer money going to fund coronavirus research in Wuhan, China.

“The letter that I joined Senator Ron Johnson and a handful of other senators very specifically asks the National Institutes of Health why they were funding gain of function research in these Wuhan labs,” Cotton said. “Now, Dr. Fauci has been to Congress, and he said this absolutely did not happen. But Dr. Fauci is playing word games.”