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After his bill to declassify what America’s intelligence agencies know about the origins of the COVID pandemic received final Congressional approval on Friday, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley taunted Chinese President Xi Jinping in a letter saying the time is at hand to tell the truth.
Hawley’s bill already had received unanimous support in the Senate before unanimously clearing the House on Friday.
Passage came after the Energy Department issued a report saying it believes the virus likely originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and FBI Director Christopher Wray emphasized that the FBI shares that opinion.
The bill now goes to President Joe Biden, where its fate is uncertain.
“I haven’t made that decision yet,” Biden said Friday when asked if he would sign the bill, according to The Associated Press.
After his bill zipped through Congress, Hawley, a senator from Missouri since 2019, took a victory lap on Twitter, writing: “China has been so worked up about this COVID origins bill, Communist officials wrote to my office earlier this week and demanded I drop it. I thought I’d update President Xi on today’s passage.”
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