Foreign Policy

Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying China to make them sick

By Anthony Bellotti, Sen. Joni Ernst
Published May 6, 2020 4:00am ET
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Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying China to make them sick
Vendors chop dog meat for sale at a market ahead of a dog meat festival in Yulin, in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2016. U.S. officials believe the coronavirus came from a similar-style market in Wuhan.

Despite years of warnings about serious safety issues at China’s wet markets and at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, U.S. government agencies continued to spend taxpayer dollars at both — wasting your money and putting all the world’s health at risk of COVID-19.

This has to stop, and we’ve got a plan to do it.

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