Samantha Power: “Under President Biden's leadership and in partnership with this Committee, we are building on that remarkable legacy.”

We have no evidence that USAID has funded gain of function research, and we certainly have not authorized gain of function research.

Fundamentally, there has to be a political agreement. We are not going to humanitarian aid our way out of this humanitarian crisis.

USAID has not authorized gain of function research.

This is devastating, and it is ceding the field as well to the people's Republic of China, to the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the US' ground game in American foreign policy -- the face…