Keller, lawmakers push for Congressional investigation into COVID-19 origins

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As President Biden’s first overseas trip comes to an end, global leaders are still demanding answers about how COVID-19 started. And so are hundreds of lawmakers in Congress.

It’s a question the world has wondered for a year and a half: what are the actual origins of COVID-19? In their official report from the G-7, leaders of the world’s top nations are calling for a “timely and transparent” investigation in China.

“We’re trying to figure out, at the G-7, whether we can put together an international basis upon which we can have a bottom line with what the transparency accounted for,” Biden said Sunday.

Biden has asked U.S. intelligence agencies investigate the origins and report to him within 90 days. This directive comes after Biden shut down an investigation into COVID’s origins created during the Trump administration. Members of Congress are also demanding answers: was the virus created in a lab? And did china cover it up?

“We owe it to the American people to get to the bottom of this,” said Rep. Fred Keller (R-Pa.)

Keller is one of more than 200 Republicans who sent this letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month requesting a bipartisan Congressional investigation. They say the world health organization’s review of Chinese facilities failed to produce “meaningful findings.”

“We owe it to the American people to get to the bottom of it, understand what happened, to hold China accountable,” Keller said. “Because, whether it’s an accident or not, when you’re in an accident in an automobile, you’re still responsible for the damage you caused.”

So far, Pelosi has not authorized a formal Congressional investigation into the origins of COVID-19.