More Fraud Controversy: USDA’s $1 Million Bird Flu Research with Scientists from China Associated with Wuhan Lab

Senator Rand Paul highlights a $1 million USDA-funded collaboration with bird flu researchers who worked for the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), an institution that’s controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through its parent organization, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

This may seem like chump change after Paul revealed in the same Festivus Report that $54 million was granted to EcoHealth Alliance for bat coronavirus collection and gain-of-health research. But every million that we uncover seems to open another rabbit hole of fraud and government corruption.

Egregiously, the government used millions of your hard-earned money to push Covid vaccines on people in certain racial and ethnic groups, too.

Fortunately, the funding was discontinued in early 2025, under the Trump administration, but it’s worth noting that this is more Biden-era fr…