$ 4.8 million in U.S. tax money was funneled to factors in Communist China, according to Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s staff’s$ 4.2 million finding buried or missing in the federal government’s cash collection.
The majority of the payments were made through the U.S. Departments of State and Health and Human Services to various Chinese organizations and China-based projects for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility trainings ( including some at the U.S. consulate ),” art billboards”, a bicycle parking cover, pro-LGBT events, various climate change initiatives, and rat research, and were reported on USAspending. gov.
More of the Americans ‘ hard-earned money, which the National Institutes of Health gave to at least one Chinese universities, is buried in that federal spending collection, though.
The NIH give collection and USAspending, for instance. According to data fromgov’t. gov. gov. gov. gov. gov. Peking University in Beijing raked in$ 4.8 million in tax revenue between 2021 and 2024. A” China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study” was the only job offer that Peking University received U.S. financing for between 2021 and 2024, according to a quick search. However, Ernstst’s department discovered an additional$ 1.08 million for Chinese researchers who had been granted a subaward for sensors that were intended to allow the scanning of “neuromodulators” that “regulate habit interest, thinking, mood, memory, motivation, sleep, and more through their influence on brain circuits.” The objective and number of the subaward are independent of the university’s USAspending profile. gov.
A subawards report from the April 2023 Government Accountability Office assessment revealed that projects and programs in China frequently receive National money through subawards, but that” the full amount of these subawards is unfamiliar because of limitations on the accuracy and precision of subaward data reported in government systems.”
The report continued,” Limitations in subaward data are a government-wide issue and are not limited to Chinese funding by the United States.”
This is not the first time that NIH has given money to China. The Wuhan Institute of Virology ( WIV ), a lab thought to be the source of the Covid-19 pandemic, allegedly received$ 1.4 million in taxpayer funding to study coronaviruses that were routed in part through the United States. via subawards, the USAID and EcoHealth Alliance. Both WIV and EcoHealth Alliance were suspended and disbarred as a result of their deliberate attempt to evade the funding reporting requirements set forth by U.S. law, which made them ineligible for upcoming funding.
The Tracking Receipts to Adversarial Countries for Knowledge of Spending ( TRACKS) Act, a bill that would make U.S. spending on foreign adversaries like China publicly accessible, is something that the Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ) made an effort to do in order to stop the flow of federal funds to China.
You can stop what you cannot see, Ernst told The Federalist in a statement that she thinks” Americans should never send a cent to China.”
Every tax dollar that is spent abroad will be scrutinized and put to the stop all irrational spending, I declare. DOGE has already canceled nearly$ 2 million Biden was sending to Beijing, Ernst continued.
Stefanik added that the bill” will ensure hardworking taxpayer dollars are not funding our adversaries, including Communist China, as they work against American interests.”
House Republicans join President Trump in his efforts to eradicate government waste, fraud, and abuse, she said in a statement to The Federalist.” The days of poor stewardship over American dollars under the Biden Administration are long gone.”
If passed, the legislation mandates that it be implemented” not later than 90 days after the date of enactment.”
The Federalist staff writer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jordan Boyd. Her work has also been published in RealClearPolitics, Fox News, and The Daily Wire. Jordanian received her bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
