White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday amid allegations that he lied to Congress over whether or not the U.S. government funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan leading up to the coronavirus pandemic.<br /><br />Fauci adamantly denied during his testimony on Capitol Hill that the National Institutes of Health funded any gain-of-function research in Wuhan, but The Intercept published a story on Monday exposing several hundred pages of documents that revealed the U.S. government pumped $3.1 million into American health organization EcoHealth Alliance to back bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and that almost $600,000 of that federal money was partially used by the WIV to find and alter bat coronaviruses that could jump to humans and infect them. <br /><br />Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Psaki about the report during Thursday’s press briefing. <br /><br />See Also: https://hocdethi.tranganhnam.xyz/2021/09/press-secretary-jen-psaki-defends-fauci.html
